boat down on the sol duc

Heard someone wrapped it up under the lower bridge, apparently nobody was seriously injured.

2nd UPDATE — A West End fishing guide and his client escaped serious injury when a submerged log beneath the Mora Road bridge over the Sol Duc River near Leyendecker Park west of Forks caused their drift boat to capsize about 11 a.m. Saturday.

The guide, Roice Miles of Forks, was pulled from the water by other steelhead fishermen near the confluence of the Sol Duc and Bogachiel rivers.

His client, initially identified as Jim Howard, was Jason Howard of Olympia. Howard was able to swim to shore. He reportedly had a slightly injured hand.

The boat and all their gear were recovered, according to Sgt. Jim Dixon of the Clallam County Sheriff's Office. Officers from the LaPush and Forks police departments also assisted in the incident.

Submerged logs can be very dangerous to boaters, especially when a river is somewhat colored.

Photo by Lonnie Archibald shows the submerged log beneath the bridge on Saturday.

Good that no one was hurt......and gear was recovered.

That log has been there for...going on three months? It's survived a few pretty good high waters, even.

Time to get it drug out of there.

Fish on...

Todd

Right??

Wonder if roice is a "local" or just a forks resident living in a hotel room. Have other people just been running it or what?
I figured I would just get out early and walk it down river right thru the boulders and hop back in under the bridge..rowing back up isn't that hard and it's a small price to pay to stay safe.
Glad everyone is okay tho and recovered their gear

bob posted picture of the log a while back on facebook

"I figured I would just get out early and walk it down river right thru the boulders and hop back in under the bridge..rowing back up isn't that hard and it's a small price to pay to stay safe.
Glad everyone is okay tho and recovered their gear"


That log is huge! It's been a crummy right row show since it's been there. Surprised anyone would consider going left?

Accidents happen... Glad no one was hurt....

That area is just a bad spot, correct me if I am wrong but it was a river right show for some time in the late 80's as well, though I thought it was from something other than woody debris.

My comment wasn't up for debate!!!

Glad everyone lived to tell the story. good luck,

SZ


PS, And yes accidents do happen.................

would be cool to also post here in this board though - not that it would have necessarily helped.

-t

It looks like the problem is the concrete column.

What kinda of engineer would do that?

It was the government agency who wouldn't spring for a clear span's fault.

Must not have been a local. Those out of towners are always screwing things up.

I'm sure not an engineer but I'm thinking cost has something to do with it.

Wynoochee crossover bridge has the same type of pillar, right where the flow and "lots of wood" gets hung up every year. Wynoochee, old bridge at Black Ck. also had a old metal pillar, while not in the middle of the river, each year would have again lots of everything caught......new bridge has NO PILLAR, so someone learned something. Lower Wynoochee, 2 bridges with a pillar in the river.....yep causes problems there.

Thanks for whomever, posted the picture....I can see why that log would cause a problem.....

Nailed it Drifter

if he is a guide on the west end, no excuse for not knowing it was there... been there since early december.

glad everyone is ok

Just a good reminder that schit happens fast on a river, and it's not always good schit that happens.

Fish on...

Todd

Nothing a mandatory boaters safety course wouldn't have prevented.

Dude a boater cert card does absolutely nothing for stupidity and risky chance taking, and does very little for understanding how to run a river anyways.

Wow swifty that pic doesn't even do it justice.

Where is your sense of humor? Thong riding a little high?

Dude.
LMAO.

Taken 2 years ago when people where still going by the pillar.

DOT yarded that log out today.

Fish on...

Todd

I hope they put up 300' of silt fence on both sides of the river, had to fill the machines with vegetable oil, and needed to file a spill prevention plan.

Almost typical they did it during the wild fish run.

I can see the stationary orange vests from here.
Not a one moving.
Probably looks like someone lost a contact.
Everyone standing around.

The problem isn't over spending.
The problem is doing nothing with the money they over spend.

Cool story, bro

They drove up with a crane, reached down off the bridge, and cabled it right up. Zero to hero in about five minutes.

Fish on...

Todd

Did you hug the tree when it came up?

This isn't too far off the truth. On wendsday I watched DOT show up with an excavator and about 8 people. One operator working and the rest stood around for about an hour while he proceed to try and spin the log to free it from the pillar. Total waste of money and resources and its all on video. Needless to say, they gave up and came back about an hour later with a section of cable with what looked to be some grapple deal on it and proceeded to try that method, EPIC FAIL once again. So, im glad to see they got it out Thursday with a crane, but it has been there since early December, so that was long overdue and it took them 7 circle jerkers and an operator 3 attempts to get it done, wasting 3 times the amount of money it would have took to do it right the first time, let alone sending 8 guys to do a 2 or 3 man job. Complete bullsh!t!

Probably just would have been easier for everyone to row around it...it's not like it was a secret that it was there.

At least it's gone now.

Fish on...

Todd

I was at the Hungry Bear on Saturday.

I ate there.

Talked quite awhile with Gary.

Nice guy.

Then I left.

The end.

Floated thru there today. Much easier with that log gone

Cold, rained all day...except for when it was hailing.

Fish on...

Todd