Fellow E-14ers:
The water content of the snowpack is so important to our fishing fortunes this summer that I will continue to keep you updated on any major changes--and changes there have been since I last reported on the snow water equivalent (“SWE”) of this year’s accumulation. Earlier this month, when I last reported to you, the SWE was tracking at 130% of 20 year median in the Bitterroot River Basin (at which time it was 116% of median average in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin).
Well, as your Hostess With the Mostess and I witnessed first-hand last week, Western Montana has had a legendary amount of snowfall of recent such that, get this, the current SWE readings, in just two weeks, have increased by 15%, such that the Bitterroot Basin SWE is currently 144% of 20 year median and the Upper Clark Fork Basis is currently 136% of that median.
Like with everything else, too much of a good thing is just that, too much. We will now be closely monitoring this accumulation to assure that we do not have a(nother) “high water year” (as we did in 2008 and in 2011, which, for safety reasons, sent us scurrying over the Continental Divide to [very, very successfully] fish the Missouri River and its dam-regulated water flow).
We shall see what we shall see, but no drought there be in and around our MT home fishing waters!!
Best to all awaiting it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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