Yellowstoned

Dave LaCourse wrote:
Sandy, how are things in Idaho and Wyoming? Are they too experiencing
low/warm water? I couldn't believe the temperatures you folks went
through in July/August.

Dave

Dave,

Water conditions in the Bighorns are pretty bad. I've had a part
time job for the last 7 years checking flow in an irrigation ditch. The
ditch was shut down the end of June due to lack of water. (Because
others have superior water rights, our ditch is one of the first to get
shut down when water is scarce.) Snow on the mountains will be gone in
another month, I think. The high lakes in the wilderness are OK but you
can see the water levels are a bit lower by historic standards.

It's been too hot to fish anyway

Snoop

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:59:46 -0600, wrote:

It's been too hot to fish anyway

It's in the high 60s during the day in the mountains of western Maine,
and in the 40's during the night. Streams are fishing well. I'll be
back up there next week.

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:59:46 -0600, wrote:

Water conditions in the Bighorns are pretty bad.

Duh. Forgot to ask: How can the Bighorn be bad? I've fished it when
the air temp was 104 while the water was a cool 53 or so. Don't tell
me there's not much water in that great big/deep lake.

Dave

Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:59:46 -0600, wrote:


Water conditions in the Bighorns are pretty bad.


Duh. Forgot to ask: How can the Bighorn be bad? I've fished it when
the air temp was 104 while the water was a cool 53 or so. Don't tell
me there's not much water in that great big/deep lake.

Dave


Bighorn mountains, Dave, not the Bighorn River. Wild horses couldn't
drag me to the Bighorn River this time of year. I didn't even go there
last winter which was standard procedure in the past. Jaded, I guess.

Snoop