Ah, thank you! I'll bookmark that.
Is there any kind of seasonal pattern to the flow on the river, or is it solely depenedent on the weather and/or discharge from power plants/reservoirs?
Gene
On Sunday, September 23, 2012 4:45:40 PM UTC-4, TurbineBlade wrote:
--Hi,I tried Riverbend early this morning with my wife. I checked the water levels prior and it appeared to be in the "normal" range -- http://www.erh.noaa.gov/marfc/potomac.shtml That said, when we arrived, parked at the nature center, walked the bootlegger trailer down the water -- boy, let me tell you that that water was moving fast and was deep! I actually decided to try it against the wisdom of my wife (this is always, always a bad idea but I never want to listen for some reason) and it was treacherous. You could barely keep yourself upright and there was no chance of wading out far enough to get a good cast.We decided to rent a canoe at the visitor's center down the road and the guy there said that water was moving pretty well and was about 8" higher than normal. He said "yeah, I wouldn't recommend that you wade up the trail there (nature center) right now". Go figure.So the noaa website above I assume is only for differentiating between "normal" and "probably doing to die" water levels on the river? ;)No biggie -- just be warned that the water is pretty rough up there right now. Is there a better way to keep track of the water levels? The place looked pretty fishy, so I'd love to hit it when it's safer. Renting a canoe was fun at riverbend....got a few bluegill, but no bass. Strangely, much of it looks extremely rocky and would appear to hold bass, but we couldn't get into any and I didn't actually see one either. Did see some carp and plenty of banded killifish though. I guess we just haven't learned where the hot spots are around there.Well, I suppose if you're 7' tall and fill your boots with lead you might be okay. Or bricks.Gene
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