On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:47:22 -0700 (PDT), "Joel *DFD*"
wrote:

George,
On my return from Canada passed by Merrill Monday afternoon in a
blinding rainstorm. Did the rivers get blown out?
Thought about you. Are you planning on the Kickapoo with your
Wisconsin group this year?
Thinking about joining you. Keep me informed.
Joel

They weren't after the rain on Monday but we've gotten a bunch more
today and some of the rivers west of here are at record high levels
for the date. I'm guessing that stream fishing over the whole state is
going to be iffy for the next week.

OTOH, we were in the middle of a severe drought at the beginning of
the month. Since June 1st though, Wausau has gotten close to 6" of
rain. That's way more than we had received in the whole 5 months
before that. In May the lakes north of town were way, way down. Last
week they had come up a foot and I'm betting that they'll double that
by this weekend. So all these rain clouds definitely have a silver
lining.

The Kickapoo thing will happen on the 24th to 26th of September as it
looks right now. But we'll be doing afly fishing smallmouth thing the
end of next month (23rd to 25th) at a small campground on a river
which I won't name here but will gladly identify and send GPS
co-ordinates on request. (Although even that is up in the air since
that river has been near flood stage for weeks and will probably be
over its banks by Sunday).


GeoC