Back up to Big Spring recently to check on the work project, which was completed at the end of Sept. In the meantime, the filled in areas along the bank have greened over with grass, as can be seen in the new photos I've posted below. Rooted vegetation is increasing in the project area, esp in the areas that are now deeper and slower. In large part, the aim of this project was to enhance brook trout habitat by converting what had been several hundred yards of flat, shallow water that was flowing fairly quickly into a narrower stream that was deeper and generally slower. In between these deeper slower new sections, plunge pools were created with logs allowing gradient to "step down" several plunge pools to the next slower pool. As I mentioned further up this thread, I don't claim to know what effect, if any, this will have on the brookies in this area. However, brookies currently are heaviest up in the "ditch" section (where they have historically been heaviest) and this new project water now resembles the ditch much more than it did before. Again, I think this project has turned out very well and I'm optimistic. I did spend some time looking for spawning brookies in the new project water. I didn't see any, although it may be early as BS brookies have historically been very late spawners. Did manage to catch a couple brookies, one of which was a pig (see Photos section). There were some rainbows spawning - BS 'bows are fall spawners - and I watched 'em for a few minutes, getting a pic of a beautiful 20" fish on a redd.