05-12-2014, 03:02 AM
[quote Mojo1]The water is owned by the irrigation company, and they will use every drop. I hear it will be completely dry by early-mid July. The river will be a write-off, and the ODFW is still trying to figure out a recovery plan for it. Unfortunate, but a fact of life when you live in a desert...[/quote]
I was up there about 6-8 weeks ago, and the ramp at the park was almost in the water. At that time there was just a trickle in the river below the dam. But there were a lot of people fly fishing it.
I don't think they are capable of "draining it dry", but I do expect it to get obscenely low by mid July.
When I was growing up, the Owyhee would overflow the banks almost every spring down below. More than once they had sandbags around the corner store.
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I was up there about 6-8 weeks ago, and the ramp at the park was almost in the water. At that time there was just a trickle in the river below the dam. But there were a lot of people fly fishing it.
I don't think they are capable of "draining it dry", but I do expect it to get obscenely low by mid July.
When I was growing up, the Owyhee would overflow the banks almost every spring down below. More than once they had sandbags around the corner store.
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