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« Last post by HEN on November 03, 2023, 10:04:52 AM »
The river is dryer than I have ever seen it . There is no flow, ZERO, coming from the dam. I can see rocks I’ve never seen before. I’ll try to explain what the very defensive lady at the Corp office just told me!! They are repainting the bridge and working on the trash catchers on the dam. When I asked about water flow she said the contract was for 3 months, but they could be finished sooner!!😬😬. Did the government ever finish anything on time? I was told there would be no generation or water flow until the contracts were finished. I asked about the pollution from them scraping the bridge she said they would be putting down tarps in the river bed to catch the cleaned off materials. I asked if there would be any periods of generation or the fish might die, she said “better the fish than the people “!! What ever that ment. 🥴🥴. I said I wish they had done this during the summer and not during trout season and she said “we get people here when we can, we really don’t have any control over that” (she was very defensive on everything ).
I don’t really know what this will do to the river?? Never seen it before. Don’t know if the Game and Fish will stock any more fish under these conditions. If the do, they will be stuck where they put them. At least it’s cold weather so water temps should not be a problem, unless we get a big rain. This explains why they generated earlier, to get the lake down as much as possible before the crews started. Oxygen levels in the remaining deep holes could get to be a problem.
Not looking good for this years trout season, and not what any of us wanted to hear. If I find out more, I’ll post it here. Fish were not biting at all yesterday, don’t know if it’s because of this or not.