Friends are visiting my other house and sending pictures. I laughed at this house hugging one.



This one, taken from the gate, makes me wish I was there watching the fish. It has been a dry winter and the river usually ices completely over, but it's been so warm the ice is essentially gone and the fishing can commence any time.



Our river flow is controlled by a dam upstream, and the low levels you see here are what the Bureau of Reclamation considers to be 'native flow' - where the water would be this time of year with no man-made intervention. There has been a lot of snow in the high mountains this past winter so the runoff is going to be high come April, May, and June, and that's not good for fishing. It will get passed to us down stream because the reservoir behind that dam will be full.

Last year we had the same problem and here is the water going into the reservoir:



Here is that same section of my river with high water in June 2010: