29 June 2024 “30 days of no flow!”

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It's Saturday morning at 5:30 am and no water running on the Lil' Mo'. Last year I could still find fish at River Ridge, not this year. The water temperature is above 82 degrees from the pipeline downstream. That's the bad thing about no generation, no cold water gets down river. The other bad news is the poachers!!  The fish have been wiped out at Sycamore run by the renters of the Trout House. With no flow on the river the worm boxes and powerball bottles the bait chunkers litter lay on the river banks longer, you can tell they have been there!!  This past Wednesday I circled thru the park at noon, just before my nap 😴, there was a man and his boy with 8 nice trout laid out on the handicap side walk, fishing worms to get there other two!!  He was a local, he knew he was breaking the law and didn't care!! This happens all the time, thats where the fish go during the summer months. I have run off a half dozen poachers in the past month and I'm only at the park a couple of hours a day.

The Riverside park area is the only place with any fish now and it has slowed down to a summer trout fishing pace. Still enjoyable but a slow bite after the sun gets on the water.

1 July 2024.  Seeing lots of dead fish in the river!!  The water temperature is ok at the park but the oxygen level may me getting bad?  They really do need to flush the river. Nothing new on any dam repairs.


‼️ WOW, someone up there is reading my post! Just got up from my nap and there is a little minimum flow going on the river!!!!  Just right, at this minute, for a cold water oxygenated river flush!!