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Location: Brighton CO. | How's the fishing been? |
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Location: Long Prairie, Minnesota | Haven't been out this week, but heading out tonight. Last Saturday I fished from 0700-1530 and had really good action the entire time. Lost a very nice fish at boat side, she ate on the 8, but don't think I got the hooks buried good enough. That fish was on a double Cowgirl. Raised one other mid 40's on a slow rolling Magnum Cowgirl. The other 6 fish I raised and had chasing were all on topwater. MK-65 Flaptail, Topraider and creeper. Water temp was anywhere from 55-61 degrees depending where I was at on the lake. Found nice green weeds in the 10-13 foot range and pounded them. Fish were holding in them. Talked to another musky guy who was fishing inside of the weedline, and he had a big fish blow up on a fat bastard right after sunrise. |
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Location: E. Tenn | Still dealing with the aftermath of Helene down here.. Several of the largest rivers cut new channels, will have to be remapped, and a lot of the mud and debris is working its way through the TVA system.
The first pic is the lake the folks at the NC Wildlife Resources Commission keeps their brood stock for the area hatchery which was also devastated. The dam was overtopped by some 10'. The inundated bridge normally sits 40' above the tailwater level.
Next is the silt in the parking lot at the boat ramp of the aforementioned lake.. Some of the lakes rose 20' in less than 48 hours
Lastly is an example of all the stuff being washed down the system.
Looks like there won't be any fishing, musky or otherwise for a while, unless one wants to drive a couple hours to the Clinch River drainage, which was largely unaffected.
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Location: Northern Illinois | Wow! |
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| Incredible devastation and from what I read, unlike Florida, very little advance warning.
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Location: E. Tenn | North of 8 - 11/1/2024 8:46 AM
Incredible devastation and from what I read, unlike Florida, very little advance warning.
Flood and evacuation warnings were issued based on the weather guessers' forecasts. When it became apparent things were about to become worse, yes... any further warnings were too little too late. Rainfall amounts were about 50% higher than forecast, with up to 31" being reported at some of the highest elevations. Then gravity takes over, and it's impossible to outrun.
Most everywhere has electrical power, the exception being those towns and such that have been wiped off the map.
Potable water is still several weeks away for those using "city water" in and around Asheville. The entire distribution system needs to be rebuilt. Those with wells have had them checked, and most have been deemed safe.
Cleanup is going rather well, with all layers of government actually meshing well, in spite of what you might see on the interweb. More roads are being cleared, and temporary bridges have been put in place, most notably I-26 in Tennessee. That roadway was not only under a lot of water but a three mile stretch was covered with mud and debris up to 30' deep. It's now open with one lane in each direction across the Nolichucky River. It took only 33 days to do the job..
It'll take a long time to rebuild, many places will never be the same.
Meanwhile, the Wildlife Resources folks finally made it to the hatcheries, with mixed news..
The coldwater facility was totally destroyed, buildings, raceways and such are gone, as are some 600,000 trout of various sizes. Fortunately another hatchery slated for a rework, will be pressed back into service.
The coolwater/warmwater hatchery fared much better, along with ponds containing this year's musky crop. The NCWRC, and our little musky club made sure the 1800 juveniles got to their new homes safely. They've had a rough start, but they've got an attitude.. They'll be fine.
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| Read a book about the building of the Biltmore estate recently and Ashville was a part of that story. Wife and I talked about traveling there in the near future. Guess we need to put that on hold. I remember that Ashville was also hit hard by floods at some point during the period covered in the book.
Glad to hear progress is being made. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | The thing is once they move inland (the storm) they are still a force to be reckon with the amount of rain, tornados, and wind damage ECT. In 2013 we had a storm that dropped 13" of rain and every canyon in the mountains that had a river flowing down to the plains flooded and caused lots of damage and a few deaths. It could have been worse but the same thing happened in the 1976 'Estes Park flood (except in 76 lots of people died) and if you lost your home in 76 you couldn't rebuild.
My sister home survived but there was 250,000 dollars in damage to her property and they lost two cars that got washed away. Alot of rain in a short period of time is not good. |
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Location: E. Tenn | North of 8... The Biltmore Estate is scheduled to reopen this weekend.. The main buildings are well above the high water mark..
The rest of the area didn't fare as well. Asheville and Buncombe Co. is still working to restore water service. You can get around the area, but plan your route judiciously.. I'm amazed at the progress being made. The area has recovered enough to where they're inviting and welcoming tourist traffic.
Chuckski... 20-30" fell on the NC side of the Eastern Divide. Every hollow, valley, and canyon creek became raging torrents, and chutes for the mud/rockslides that started very near the top of the ridges. Most of these have no flood plains to speak of, and there's very little topsoil to soak up moisture. A lot of folks building on the mountainside didn't fare any better.
Here's a pic a friend of mine took... a life jacket 25' up a tree..
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Location: Brighton CO. | I had to retire early and have expanded my fishing geekness to a science, weather and things that go on around me. (I read a lot of books) I watch the weather as a guy who is a destinationial fishermen trying to plain trips in the late fall to get away from people and catch the biggest fish possible. The thing is fall gets here later and later each year and the resorts close earlyier and earlyier each year. It seams we get more and more thousand year rains or bad drought where in my part of the country the Monson shutts off. and we have fires year around no just in the summer mouths. Three years ago we had a fire in suburbs of Denver that burnt over a thousand homes and businesses. A snowstorm help put it out on Dec. 31. The West is prone to fires now this fall New England was on fire . |
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