HURRICANES,BEST OF THE WORST

                                       

             
                                 THE STORM THAT  
                            BROUGHT          STEEL     

    

                   Our little bundle of misery that leveled trees,roofs , and worst of all left my family and I with no power for a week made me really appreciate some things that I normally wouldn't. Don't get me wrong, people got it a lot worse . But for the first time The Great Lakes experienced  an inland hurricane. 25' waves are no joke. The waves were crashing on shore so hard the spray was whisped in the wind and carried about 400 ft. south to Lake rd. Like a squirt gun in the wind. what I didn't mention was their is a cliff that's close to 60 ft. high above the beach.    

                                                                                

           Where the water is, was a beach.... 

   I have some other pics i thought about putting on this post, but its not really something most want to remember. I did go through hurricane Isabella while living in Raleigh , North Carolina . But with cold temps and a shallow lake this was a lot worse.  

           ON A BETTER NOTE.... The 15,400 mark was hit on our USGS gage. The Rocky isn't the Dean or Skeena. The mean is about 250 cfs.  That's not a lot of water. An average to medium sized river. And the rise of the river has changed its path from the little I saw today. The first bridge now has a ton of deep pocket water and  almost like deep rapids, then the pool. Which also changed its shape somewhat. Tomorrow I'll be down their again and hopefully more and better photos I will post with probably little write up.
        It seemed even the smaller creeks with flood plains very near even took a change. But needed. And the fishing did as well...  

 

                  
       With water still high, i used Palmer Chenille wrapped like a bugger in orange. It has brown mixed with a slate grey,so it also matched the stream bottom.  

                      

        

              To the east, the streams were fishing 2 days ahead. As my Friend had the steel itch. Adam and known as "Mr. Mepps " Jeff Abbott made the executive decision to go to western Pa's Elk creek. And it paid off  in dividends with their center pinning . Good call...... 

 

                        
           With water that high, I'm assuming the fish are in heavily and throughout... 

                                   
                                                                       HELL YES.