Jimbo
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No Whitewater Camping is not presently a LAP site. Back before the first of the year several groups were trying to close it’s sale. It didn’t go through so we didn’t get a continuing lease. Be on your best behavior or we may not be able to get it for next year. So keep a foot wet !!!
Jimbo
If you ever see 3 vehicles parked at Pott’s,… Call me (210-415-6822) or Dan Cone (325-423-0045) immediately !
I called Mr. Potts and he said that he saw it too. He said he went over and talked to the occupants of the 2 last vehicles. Turns out they were together and were dropping off another LAP member that was meeting the member in the 2nd vehicle. Nonetheless keep an eye out for parking violations and let me or Dan Cone know ASAP.
Jimbo
If you’re going to spin fish, why don’t you do it at Rio? Tons of open bank to fish from no matter the flows.
Easiest areas to wade fish are: CVC, Little Ponderosa, Potts’, and Maricopa.
Jimbo
I don’t think that information has been posted yet. I do know while at the banquet you are given a booklet with all the schedules of all the weekend events. So attending the banquet sets you up for the whole weekend, plus you get to hear the keynote speaker. Really the only downside may be drinking too much before the auction, yeap I’m one of those guys…..
Jimbo
Yeah, it would be a miracle to find the rod I lost about 7 years ago…..
Jimbo
I would say wading upstream against a current tongue in anything that is mid-thigh or deeper is an experience in faith.
Jimbo
If it’s a Sage 690 XP with a Ross San Miguel reel, let me know…..
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I have caught many freshly wounded fish. I can remember several that had their sides split and you could see the intestines. Yet they were still swimming and eating as if nothing was wrong. I have also seen other fish bearing the healed scars of their encounters with Ospreys, Herons, and Water Turkeys. You’d be surprised what these fish can endure and survive.
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I’ll tell you, even with the flows dropping to 500cfs, when I am wading waist deep in the current, I feel like I may be knocked off my feet at any time with studded boots.
I was wading in the Tubers Loop yesterday above the JDL pool. I call it Mallard Run. And the most recent flows have changed the troughs up there. There used to be a solid flagstone platform to stand on near the far side. It now has a deeper trough in front of it and the platform has been cut yet again. I waded upstream and stepped on top of it. I made a bunch of casts and never felt solid and stable standing there on top. When I was finished fishing, I and surveyed my route off. The only water not adam’s apple deep was the lower end from where I came. The bad news is was water was moving so quickly it disturbed the surface around my legs. I really could not see the bottom and where to put my first step. I felt around with my wading staff, everything was 3 feet or deeper. I was thinking to myself, surely my first step was going to end up finding a deeper hole or bowling ball which would result in swimming for it. I was frozen for a moment. Not a single person was in sight to report an unknown fisherman disappearing somewhere mid-river never to be seen again.
No help and no witness’,….
Well I sure was going to make it home without taking that first step. I said a little prayer and stepped off……
The current was really moving on that side. My foot hit the bottom about a foot downstream of it’s intended target. No purchase was found. Even with my wading staff stabbed in the bottom, the current pushed me further downstream. I took a second step and again could not find a rest. The current continued pushing me downstream. I took a third step, stabbed with my wading staff again, and I was able to come to a stop. Albeit in 3 1/2 feet of water and with the bottom pockets of my vest now thoroughly soaked. From there I was able to get back to the house side without floating my hat.
Point being,… sometimes you can get to a spot, but could be 10X tougher getting back out. So be careful out there !
Pics for clicks….
Jimbo
Thanks for the post Kevin. It’s nice to have somebody else posting up their results with pictures.
Side note: I must be too lucky?!? I received another jury summons, my 4th, for,… get this,… Monday 8am. That’s right the Monday after the Superbowl I must be downtown at the San Antonio Courthouse. I’ve been part of a Superbowl Party in Austin for the last 45 years. And now I have to be back in San Antonio the next morning appearing sober in front of judges and attorneys. Man,… I’m too lucky !!!!
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700cfs is still pretty high for wading. I think I’ll wait for a few more days. Inflows are coming down and I would expect them to drop the releases after the rain passes. We will see what happens.
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Very Cool !!! Very Lucky too !!! You should buy a lotto ticket !
Jimbo
The flows are dropping past 700cfs because they are rerouting to flows from straight through the dam to through the generating facility. It will be somewhere this afternoon or this evening before we will really see what the steady reading will be at the Sattler gage.
Jimbo
Bruce is right, the primary function, and the reason for it’s construction, was to control flooding downstream and throughout the basin to the coast.
The 909’msl pool level was determined during the design phase of the dam. It is also true that the dam was constructed to withstand the worse case scenario and we are talking holding back water well past the 943’msl for an extended period of time. Now that being said GBRA has repeated their policy of holding the extra foot to 910’msl when possible for recreation. And the recreation they are talking about has traditionally meant tubing and rafting in the warmer months. They have under the recent administration talked about fulfilling our Flow Agreement by talking about holding after the first of the year. In their announcement before this one they talked about lowering the lake to 910’msl and then releasing what the inflows were. This latest announcement can only be taken as an effort to further lower the lake. Let’s give them some time and see how they control the releases as the inflows continue to fall.
Jimbo
Canyon Lake Release Advisory January 29, 2019 3 p.m.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin reducing the water flow from Canyon Reservoir at 8 a.m. Wednesday, January 30. The process to close the gate will take approximately three hours. GBRA will then take over the management of the water release and decrease the flow to 700 cubic feet per second (cfs). Property owners, recreationalists and other stakeholders should take notice of the changing river flows. Additional information about Canyon releases and other stream flow data may be found at https://bit.ly/2NI2HTz.
I am surprised they picked 700cfs with inflows at 524cfs. That will continue to drop the lake below 910msl which their last announcement suggested they would hold. If they are 700cfs waders should use extreme caution. I am hoping they will bring down the flows to 500cfs or below soon and wading safely will again be possible. I sure want to wade fish, but at 700cfs, I will wait or hire a guide for a float.
Jimbo
