“The Firehole River is running at twice its previous record. The Gibbon River is about the same. The Madison River will be at record and beyond by tomorrow.”
Warm rain, late spring and high snowpack = record flows (discussed on FF in Yellowstone in some depth).
Our temperatures are (finally) reaching the mid 70s, and flows are edging upward: The Upper Sacramento was formerly under 2000 cfs, now it’s topping 2600 cfs. The Upper McCloud has already gone from 1200 to 1350.
The Lower McCloud remains surprisingly fishable (less than 400 cfs at Ah-Di-Nah), though you can expect that to change sometime soon.
See you watching the snow melt, Tom Chandler.
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