Got a chance to survey my new estates – and while the Singlebarbed Legal Office is researching maritime salvage laws, we’re planning our embassy and accompanying strip mall.

What happens when you boost the creek flow one hundred fold? Gravel beds and rock becomes grains of sand and move many miles – hopefully you’re not in the way..

I have a new island and a new primary channel compliments of shifting gravel and new deposits upstream of the bridge. The right angles in the flow of substrate downstream is apparent in the below right of the photo.

This is fine cobble akin to the aggregate in concrete, and water moves it around as easily as beach sand. The Mergansers made it fine, as did the large pod of Pikeminnow below the bridge, but we’ve got another heavy storm due in an hour, so this glimpse will have to suffice until the water clears again.

That last blast of water was nearly 14000 CFS, compared to the normal 140 CFS, and everything I trod upon last season is likely lining the bottom of the Lower Sacramento by now. The above shot was taken Saturday with the river at 260 CFS, now it’s 10 hours later and the river is 2600 CFS, nearly 10 times what’s depicted above.

If anyone south of me has an overturned Audi Quattro on their lawn, blame Nature – and check the trunk, there’s a really big Largemouth in the wheel well..

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