Sandy on Friday

[fisheromen]

I was surprised to find bright fish still moving through. We fished the Dodge Park area (ChuckDog and I) for 5 hens and a buck, all in great shape. Not sure the river will be in shape again before closing with all the rain today.

[Wog]

Hey fisheromen,
How was the water color up there? Did the river clear up at all or was it still brown?

[sandi]

I was up around the Oxbow area @ 3:30. Water looked great for this time of year and all the rain. The gauge shows little or no rise dispite all the precip. Sure is a lot of goop along the banks from the last big rise and fall. That may wash off into the river with the rain. Still looked good though in the PM. No fish - my rod broke on the fifth cast.

[SandySteel]

The key to the Sandy river levels is the freezing level on the mountain. If there is a lot of rain but the snow level is low the river might come up a bit but really won't blow out. It was surprising to me to see that the guage didn't budge a bit. But if you look at the last jump it made on Tuesday the temperatures were higher and the precip up higher in the watershed came down as rain. Today's snow level is 5000 feet which doesn't seem all that low. I wonder what it was Tuesday. It would be interesting to track this over the rainy season and see what the correlation between precip level, snow elevation and river height is.

Eric

[ampersat]

indeed, the sandy is ruled by the mountain. if the snow level is lower when the rains come, the river barely blinks. this is also why the river blows out in the springtimes as the warm weather hits. not a drop of rain and a few warm days and the river runs high and brown. let's just hope we don't get any landslides on the mountain this year. boy, that really messed up a few good months.

[fisheromen]

I checked the flow today and was surprised to find things down from Friday even after Saturday's downpour. I guess the freezing level is the key. Anyone know a good website to find updated freezing levels? Also, wasn't there a public meeting recently on Sandy classification as navigable? ChuckDog mentioned something.