American River flow dropping...

[Mrs.Finsallaround]

Project: Nimbus Dam

Please make the following release changes to the American River.

Date: 06/16/10
Begin: 0800
From (CFS): 8,000
To (CFS): 7,650

Begin: 0900
From (CFS): 7,650
To (CFS): 7,300

Begin: 1000
From (CFS): 7,300
To (CFS): 7,000

Date: 06/17/10
Begin: 0800
From (CFS): 7,000
To (CFS): 6,700

Begin: 0900
From (CFS): 6,700
To (CFS): 6,400

Begin: 1000
From (CFS): 6,400
To (CFS): 6,100

Comment: Snowmelt inflows receding; conserve storage.

Issued By: Russ Yaworsky

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

If our rivers gets down to a nice flow soon like 3,000 cfs then the Shad fishing should go crazy........

[Ed Wahl]

8000 was kind of fun. I could run the "Geezer" up the riffles that were too shallow last summer for my pram.

There's a lot of shad in the river, dropping to a more "normal" level should concentrate them back in all the 'usual' spots.

Caught one today that I had to boga, it was 4.5. Biggest one I've seen yet.

It bit a rather gaudy chartreuse,flash, big orange headed thing. I put on a Bloody Maria dropper and all of my hits,misses, and landed shad came on that.

Maybe Jeff could re-post that recipe? It's a real killer.

Ed

[burl51]

http://www.kiene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13845&highlight=bloody+maria