08-05-2010, 09:04 PM
I just checked it and flows are back up through town, but that is because the farmers are cutting hay and have backed off the water for hay and wheat.
It is insane. I have been thinking about this for a long time. There has to be a way to be more efficient with the water so that the farmers can have what they need and we can keep a reasonable flow back into the snake.
I have caught some huge fish in there, but I have seen just as many huge floaters because they come out of the snake in the spring and then the water level drops to nothing sometimes in a matter of days leaving the fish that don't make it back down river to over heat in the small pools. It really is a problem that could be solved.
Windriver
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It is insane. I have been thinking about this for a long time. There has to be a way to be more efficient with the water so that the farmers can have what they need and we can keep a reasonable flow back into the snake.
I have caught some huge fish in there, but I have seen just as many huge floaters because they come out of the snake in the spring and then the water level drops to nothing sometimes in a matter of days leaving the fish that don't make it back down river to over heat in the small pools. It really is a problem that could be solved.
Windriver
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