WOW, this year's runoff is proceeding at a continued record-setting pace! As reflected on our updated annual flow chart, today's flow in and along our barometer Rock Creek is currently roiling at 4,319 cubic feet per second, the highest flow measured for this date during the past forty five years...
Here are some comparison numbers: (1) the current flow is 40% higher than the previous max of 3,100 cfs (last year's 2017 blue line on our chart); (2) today's mean average flow over the last four and a half decades has been 1,150 cfs -- today's flow is currently 275% of that mean average; and (3) the lowest flow on this date was measured in 1991 at 297 cfs -- we are fourteen times that rate!!
I regard all of the above as good news (in fact, very good news) as the snow pack in the upper climes is now beginning to melt off and, hopefully, our local rivers will fully settle down to be in fishable condition come four plus weeks from now when the Magnificent Ones arrive on the scene of it all!! If the high flowage then yet continues, however, our traditional back up plan is already fully in place whereunder, if necessary, we will safely fish the 5,000 fish/mile section of the Missouri River just outside Craig, Montana (right, veteran Oner Craig "El Senor Feo" Benjamin--we've been there and successfully done that together before?!?). In either event, as has been the case for each of our prior fifteen Extravaganza years, we WILL fish every single day of E-18!!
Stay tuned as there is (much) more to follow...
RCR---<'///:><
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