Now thats a map

[JimNovo]

Is everything in PA that low?

 

[TimMurphy]

Dear JimNovo,

It's grim right now in Central PA. We have rain on tap for most of next week but with only 3/4" forecast for the week it won't even matter. Sprouting dandelions will make short work of whatever rain falls I'm afraid.

We need 2 or 3 days of steady April showers to make May flowers and to ensure mayflies get by too. 😉

Here's hoping!

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

 

[wildtrout2]

Yep, we need several good day long soaking rains to help things. 🙏

 

[tomgamber]

It's grim for sure but I just drove the length of the turnpike including over the Juniata, Susky,and today Perkiomen creek. And while they aren't pushing grass, they did not appear as low as this map would indicate. Susky actually looked high.

 

[TimMurphy]

It's grim for sure but I just drove the length of the turnpike including over the Juniata, Susky,and today Perkiomen creek. And while they aren't pushing grass, they did not appear as low as this map would indicate. Susky actually looked high.

Dear Tom,

The Susky in HBG will hit 4 feet sometime next week unless a dam bursts somewhere. Historically 4 feet was a July 4th target according to Bob Clouser.

In the overall scheme of things low water on the big rivers might not mean all that much. But for Midstate trout waters it's pretty bad right now, iff'n you are a fish.

You know me, I'm Captain Negative, always down at all times. 😉 But when windblown leaves in my yard crash together while blowing across my yard and get reduced to dust, it's bad!

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

Min (1981)	Most Recent Instantaneous Value Mar 29	25th percen- tile	Median	Mean	75th percen- tile	Max (1913)
15000	28200	49000	67500	86700	100000	35000

Daily discharge, cubic feet per second -- statistics for Mar 29 based on 134 water years of record more

 

[Swattie87]

Red is relative to “normal” median flows for the date. So the same amount of water (cfs wise) that would show as a shade of red now, likely would be some shade of blue in August. I’d be delighted to have these flows in August. Keep that in mind. We don’t really need the rain NOW, but yeah, I wouldn’t turn down some.

 

[tomgamber]

Dear Tom,

The Susky in HBG will hit 4 feet sometime next week unless a dam bursts somewhere. Historically 4 feet was a July 4th target according to Bob Clouser.

In the overall scheme of things low water on the big rivers might not mean all that much. But for Midstate trout waters it's pretty bad right now, iff'n you are a fish.

You know me, I'm Captain Negative, always down at all times. 😉 But when windblown leaves in my yard crash together while blowing across my yard and get reduced to dust, it's bad!

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

Min (1981)	Most Recent Instantaneous Value Mar 29	25th percen- tile	Median	Mean	75th percen- tile	Max (1913)
15000	28200	49000	67500	86700	100000	35000

Daily discharge, cubic feet per second -- statistics for Mar 29 based on 134 water years of record more

Only speaking visually. The island in the middle the rather murky colored river is almost completely under water. There is very little difference from bank to bank in surface disturbance suggesting and structure is completely submerged. I'll will go back across it tomorrow. We did have rain friday so...

 

[troutbert]

Red is relative to “normal” median flows for the date. So the same amount of water (cfs wise) that would show as a shade of red now, likely would be some shade of blue in August. I’d be delighted to have these flows in August. Keep that in mind. We don’t really need the rain NOW, but yeah, I wouldn’t turn down some.

That's true. The colors can easily throw you off.

You have to look learn what cfs levels are best for the streams you fish. Don't focus on the color.

Many streams are now at very good fishing flow levels.

 

[caddisflyer]

Fished Friday and the Susquehanna is so dependent on how the dams are releasing water its always hard to understand it. At least from Harrisburg on down. City island was very low but drop down to below Falmouth and it was on the high side.

 

[afishinado]

It depends on what part of PA you fish. SEPA is really the only part of the state that is in a drought right now.

| U.S. Drought Monitor

droughtmonitor.unl.edu

 

[tomgamber]

yes, this is the area where I can get a visual on any water on the Pike. Looks like only two counties are in a warning. The Susky seemed rather high on the way back through though. Sawatara looked pretty good too though that section is very near the Susky.

 

[tomgamber]

With that said here is first two weeks of April last year compared to current reading. Just slightly different...

 

[steve98]

Dear JimNovo,

It's grim right now in Central PA. We have rain on tap for most of next week but with only 3/4" forecast for the week it won't even matter. Sprouting dandelions will make short work of whatever rain falls I'm afraid.

We need 2 or 3 days of steady April showers to make May flowers and to ensure mayflies get by too. 😉

Here's hoping!

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

NOT GOOD!

 

[tomgamber]

if you look at the dates above. the level for today is exactly where it was last year. However with as much snow as rain forecast for the next week or so I don't expect a repeat.

 

[Tiogadog]

I am heading to central PA for my annual spring break trip next week...so plan on flood conditions

 

[Nymph-wristed]

That's true. The colors can easily throw you off.

You have to look learn what cfs levels are best for the streams you fish. Don't focus on the color.

Many streams are now at very good fishing flow levels.

Very true! The future potential disaster this summer if rain never comes notwithstanding, some of your bigger cricks and rivers are at prime fishing flows right now.

When @wgmiller put up the poll about how the conditions have changed your fishing, I posted yes they have changed. But it was not meant as a negative thing. Now is the time to target big water you often wait to fish until late May, for example.

 

[Sylvaneous]

They'll all be dark blue or black by Sunday.