Now the Juniata in my neck of the woods looks terrible and it rained EXTREMELY HARD yesterday in many places. I had to drive to Stone Valley and the rain that fell when I was over there was some of the hardest I've ever seen.
The river has been a wash so whatcha doing?
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Yeah, Dave-Andy is correct--all on top. Andy knows how I like to fish. It's not for everyone. A lot of casting, not a ton of fish, but usually big ones. Kind of like our challenge last year. Andy and Tom caught a few more fish than we did, but no big ones, and we generally only caught big ones. We should do the challenge again this year if the water ever stabilizes again, but much further upstream, like Liverpool.
"stonecat the bejesus...."
I like the sound of that. :lol:
This really has been a frustrating year for river bassin - only been out on the Susky once this summer.
The way the forecast looks, we may have to keep punting on the big river for awhile, especially for wade fishing.
The way the forecast looks, we may have to keep punting on the big river for awhile, especially for wade fishing.
That's a beauty Michael. Congratulations.
Looks like the river will top 250,000 again this week. This has been amazing but in a bad way. Probably the least I've fished out there in 6-7 years. It appears we will be getting a huge slug of water from WB Susky and from the Endicott / Binghamton area. Should take 12-15 days to pass through and start to drop (Harrisburg area). So.... hopefully have decent conditions return by early September.
What's amazed me is the red color this year. Did the high water expose a huge clay bank somewhere or is there construction runoff coming in from Sunbury area? The clarity has been horrible this year.
What's amazed me is the red color this year. Did the high water expose a huge clay bank somewhere or is there construction runoff coming in from Sunbury area? The clarity has been horrible this year.
I've wondered about this too.
The lower Juniata has exhibited the same problem. In normal years, as water levels drop, clarity quickly returns (or returns for half the river channel around Dauphin). In fact, you usually get back clarity well before median flow rates. This year, for some reason, has been different: levels drop but clarity does not return.
Perhaps the simplest explanation is simply the large amount of flooding over agricultural landscape has just pulled an enormous amount of sediment into the watersheds.
One of the things that often happens with these municipal systems (and to a lesser extent with private entities with discharges) is that they operate under nearly interminable consent decrees where the courts have given them grace and time and exempts them from immediate upgrades to ensure compliance so long as they fix the thing by date certain as specified by the courts.
This was originally intended as a way of "working with the offender" to ensure a fix without (allegedly) bankrupting them. Often though, the offender keeps going back to court to get "date certain" extended and the thing hangs in limbo for years and years.
This (in addition to the ongoing construction) may be part of what is going on with the city of Binghamton.
This was originally intended as a way of "working with the offender" to ensure a fix without (allegedly) bankrupting them. Often though, the offender keeps going back to court to get "date certain" extended and the thing hangs in limbo for years and years.
This (in addition to the ongoing construction) may be part of what is going on with the city of Binghamton.
I drive along the river at least two times per day. The levels have finally dropped to what you'd expect in early June. The clarity has greatly improved as well. Finally appears to be settled down for the season and back closer to normal levels. Hoping for a good finish to the season. Running a couple of guide trips and taking the nephew out between Friday and Monday. Expect it to fish well.
