The Before and After – The Rise of the Big Muddy

Sleepy and Pastoral

The “Little Stinking” in it’s August benevolence, quiet, peaceful, scenic, and odiferous.

Swollen and unmanagable, damn near the same color

The “Big Muddy” from the same vantage point, 6″ of rain later. The color is damn near the same, so I’ll be fishing it by lunch today – via jetboat..

As both photos were taken from the same spot, it looks like about a 3 foot increase in flows. I make it 10 extra turns of lead wire, or a 4mm tungsten bead should do it…