need to check avail. gauges…
Not much snowfall(slow runoff) this last winter = an area in need of rain…so check gauges often.
Some not much
and it was only a 25 mile stretch with Oxbow somewhere in the middle.
It would be a guess that the Aroostook would have a bigger watershed with several feeder lakes.
Have to learn more about that one.
level is good to go right now
looks like a big rain coming in a few days. i see some guides have trips on the 10th and 17th of may. i have floated past nine mile as low as 1100cfm and i pulled my canoe at 850cfm.
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Man if we could get some of that stuff TN received....(rolleyes)...*EDIT: Looks like we're getting back to somewhat normal early May temps and rain has been falling...much needed up north. After witnessing what last August-Fall's drought did to smaller streams I'll never complain about rain again.
SteveD
damn that river
she is wicked empty now. i know some groups put in last weekend for the trip up to allagash. with temps going up and no water that river can become a death march pulling your canoe over the rocks all day. i was to go up this weekend for 12 days on the water but thats just a dream now. i have barely made it up the river when the nine mile gauge was at 1100cfm. below priestley bridge the river will torture you at the levels we have now.
just got home from the st.john
poled from baker lake to dickey at crazy low levels. no way could anybody paddle it. i left enough green royalex on the rock to make a small kayak. will post up pictures later this week. you can pole at half the level you need to paddle. i ran it at about a third. saw not a soul and had good conversation with my dog and a nice mouse one evening. best trip i ever had. finished with thunder and lightning while running big rapids, even pinning my pole in a deep wave train half way down. getting it back is a story itself.