They may have been fishing there, but it didn't open until Memorial week-end which would have been Saturday May 24. I was at my house near the mouth of the Green on the 17th getting all geared up for it. It would have been the first year of a springer return. I caught a few the year before. I came back home to Lacey that night. Didn't get back to Maple Flats for about 2 weeks. My house was still there surrounded by mud but all 12 houses or so across the road were gone. Only one foundation remained. Where they had been was and still is river bottom.