A fisherman (trespassing) was here today and said he caught a nice 12 inch rainbow trout over there toward the far bank.



I told him to go ahead and keep fishing if he wanted to, just don't let any boulders roll down and kill him.

We'll spend most of the summer getting our irrigation system back in place - water will be pumped from the river and piped all over the property like it was before. A lot of the piping is still on site, although some of it is beat-up and wrapped around trees with other debris.



This is the side stream coming into the river. You can see some of the irrigation pipe there, the black stuff. The water in the stream is gradually cutting through the solid ice at the mouth of the culvert. I'm pretty sure it is clear of debris, and once the ice melts, will flow freely.



We had that big island before, but it was covered with tall grass, and wasn't as long. There is a new shoal there to the right. When the water rises to the normal summer level, about 18 - 24 inches (today it is about 12 inches), the low parts will be new pools, and the shoals will be shallows.

Here is the upstream view. Maybe I'll send this picture to the county and see if they will send someone to get that piece of deck before the spring runoff comes. One of these days I'll compare before and after flood pictures at low water to see if there are new boulders.