running uncharacteristically silty today (up high). Anybody got any ideas? At 2000 cubic this river should be gin clear and it was when I went to bed last night. Is someone mucking up my river somewhere up there?

Qq,

If you're looking at the river below Sultan, it's because of the massive slide on the Sultan River up in the Canyon that occurred a couple of weeks ago during the last rain...check out the video of the slide in the Fins-n-Feathers forum...

Fish on...

Todd

No Todd, I'm looking above Gold Bar and below the confluence of the forks.

Hmmmm....

Snow melt from yesterday's sunny weather?

Maybe it's a matter of perspective? One man's silt is another man's steelhead green?

Either way, the fish ought to be around...they sure were last week!

Fish on...

Todd

I'm not complaining about the fishibility, I'm just curious why the color change. I see the river every morning when I wake, therefore I notice the smallest changes in color/clarity/level etc...

I thought about the nice weather yesterday, but the temps. were cool enough to keep the water dropping and clearing. It's just a little mysterious to me why the visibility change in the opposite direction. I'm not trying to sound any alarms or anything, but something out of the ordinary might have happened above, and I just wanted a few ideas/opinions

Thanks for responding Todd.

was up there day after x-mas and water was in great shape........almost too much visability

Was almost gin clear floating it yesterday(dec.28)

Is the river fishable at Lewis street, or is the slide messin up the river too much?

River is fishable from the forks the the mouth

The graph at Gold bar shows it's still dropping.

Any fish being caught near Lewis Street?

i have no idea why it got so colored last night but i like it.

not often you see the river drop and get color.

...was at Reiter yesterday and today. Water did silt up today compared to the clear water yesterday (???).

Think it was sudden snow melt unless a slide. On the way up today about 7:00am the car thermometer at Sultan read 30 degrees, by the time we got to Reiter it read 43 with an east wind. The thermometer is very accurate.....must be global warming.

BTW...fishing was dead slow today at Reiter, but not on the snoqualmie in the afternoon! Snoqualmie was also silted to about the same degree and a bit more.

Good, at least somebody else noticed.

Lucky buggers!!!!!!! Some of us have to work this week and don't have to worry about the river levels or clarity.

leave a couple for us saps that can't get out until next week.