A strange thing happened along to the way to the flow this year, gang: The
big push two weeks ago (with high temperatures for a sustained period of
time) had the effect of a blow torch at the higher elevations and, virtually
overnight, the snow pack and its water content witnessed a 30-40%
degradation such that, as witnessed above both via a visual of our Log O
Meter, you can see that the water levels are already in a subsidence mode
along our targeted Rock Creek with a foreboding for anyone thinking about
fishing Montana in August to rethink that idea.
As always, with the Extravaganza right on the heels of the runoff, our water
levels are going to be spot on for each of this year's E'13 fishing
dates--but the charts that we have kept are sure a study in contrast:
Witness this day in each of 2008, 2009 and 2011 when Rock Creek was a raging
maniac...by contrast, according to Carolyn Persico of our land purveyor Rock
Creek Mercantile, outfitters are, today, beginning to float our native river
way before the advent of the annual Salmonfly hatch that is still weeks
away.
According to Carolyn, look to the water flows to keep dropping over the next
week or so from their current 1310 cfs level such that, like we had in the
dreaded fire year of 2007, it appears that we are going to have more of a
walk off than a runoff. As she quipped this morning with mindful
observation, "we are really farmers, you know" and, as such, are fully
subject to the vagaries of nature.
That being said, we WILL have plenty of water this year, gang; and, no, we
will not be going over the Continental Divide to fish the Missouri as we did
in the high water years of '08 and '11. By this time next month the Ones
will have already come and fished and Da Tattoos will be packing their bags
for their (re)entry onto the blessed waters of it all. Look to us targeting
the Bitterroot River as our main stream of interest this year, gang, as well
as the Big Blackfoot...prime time is our time and that time is now nigh!
Best to all in the final preparation for it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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