Take a look at KING5 Weathernet for Amanda Park. Look at the "historic" rainfall.

Yesterday was 12.20 inches.

http://www.instaweather.com/KING/default.asp?cid=92&id=AMANP

Pretty nice today with just a little rain. So far only 3 1/2 inches. Not bad. (If yer a freakin duck!)

I left the plug (Duh) in the Driftabago Sunday night. Had it hooked up ready to go. When I figured out I wasn't fishing I tried to take the trailer off the Bronco. Wouldn't budge? It was half full of water! Took 15 minutes just to get enough water out so I could move it.

If you are the wiseass doing the Rain Dance, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, please stop!

The rainfall totals are just plain scary....as are the warm temperatures. 60+ degrees in January!??!?!...more or less the warmest (highest high and highest low) January day ever.

And for the first time, it wasn't the poor chum trying to cross the road but a big wild steelhead. Just saw the pictures on ch. 4 and they said they would have the full story regarding the rescue attempt of the stranded fish on the news at 5.

It was actually a coho. :rolleyes:

I thought that "steelhead" looked funny

More rain headed our way! Through Sunday at a minimum...

Anyone wanna go inner-tubin'?

...whatever it was, the guy picked it up with gloves and handled it oh so gently by grabbing it in the gills and squeezing.

Not sure if that lil fishy is gonna make it....

WOW, that is a lot of rain. do you think the hoh will be fishable by the weekend? :p

one thing i have learned living around here is that we get are avg. rain some times a little at a time or all at once

Looked more like a Coho to me than a steelhead.

Yeah he did. That poor fish. That was some of the poorest fish handling "skills" that I've seen. At least everyone got to see it on TV.

Yes! The weekend of the fifth of March

I'll ruin a good thread with some civil engineering trivia. The United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service's 100-year, 24-hour Isopluvial lists a value between 9 and 10 inches for the Amanda Park area. This means our 12+ inch rainfall total exceeded the 100-year storm.

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Wet huh!

Is that a record for all time there? Is that a record for the state for one day?

Rain stopped here yesterday, but the dang BAKER River is running at all time highs...I have never sen it flow more than 4000 CFS, and it is running at 20,200 right now, with the level of nearly 12 feet...that is huge for this little river.

Mike

Three weeks, one day, 23 hours, 28 minutes and 15 seconds. 804 cigarettes not smoked, saving $160.84. Life saved: 2 days, 19 hours, 0 minutes.

I don't know, Gutz, but I seriously doubt it.

I was gona fish the hoh that day. woke up at 3 checked the river and it hadnt been spiking, so figured I should be ok.........three hours later........
that was a long day of driving