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I am fully addicted to fly fishing now, my wifes thrilled (not!) since I am starting all over on my fishing gear!
We will keep you in mind! I'm sure it will be fall after a lot of rain! It was an awesome and exhausting adventure!I am fully addicted to fly fishing now, my wifes thrilled (not!) since I am starting all over on my fishing gear! I love that Hunter S. Thompson qoute!!!
Woohoo! I've always wanted to float and fish the Clack. I have a single-person river kayak, but I've been advised against multitasking on that particular river in a kayak. As for your wife's dismay...you're not starting over, you're upgrading. If all else fails, throw "A River Runs Through It" into the DVD player and let her watch Brad Pitt wrestle a fish.
I've never seen the movie, but I ran the upper rapid around Easter this year. That was the biggest water I've been in, and it really got my heart pumping. Some friends just ran it a couple weekends ago and broke their oars on the upper rapid. Bring an extra, and some oar locks too, and your right about some water helping that problem as well.
I've never seen the movie, but I ran the upper rapid around Easter this year. That was the biggest water I've been in, and it really got my heart pumping. Some friends just ran it a couple weekends ago and broke their oars on the upper rapid. Bring an extra, and some oar locks too, and your right about some water helping that problem as well.
Out of curiosity do you know which line they took through the rapid? I've run that rapid hundreds of times, and am failing to see how they could get themselves into that much trouble w/o taking a weird line.
The minefield I can see pinning your oars in the rocks, but Upper McIver is pretty straight forward.
This is Upper McIver and the Minefield.
http://vimeo.com/39874594
Thaks the info. Always best to play smart. Perhaps you'd be interested in going ? I'd be down for going without gear to learn the river.
Seems like the toobers don't have much trouble though, and when I had a fishcat I used to take it down IIIs and mild IVs without gear for fun w my friends. As long as you keep your legs up it was fine.. but its always good to be safe, no matter how smooth the water.
Some one mentioned launching from feldheimer too to avoid those rapids.
If you have run class III and IV rapids in a float tube you must be crazy!!! Sounds like fun though don't get me wrong, just crazy.
If I had a free weekend I would love to join, but alas it is Fall Chinook season and my weekdays and weekends are booked solid through September. Launching from Feldys isn't a bad Idea, lots of shallow water in that stretch right now, with limited holes that fish will be stacked in, although there are some nice ones. Most fish will be up higher in the system, along with the better water.
Please don't bring float tubes down from the upper put in at McIver. The rapids directly below are a lot more gnarly than they look. A float tube could turn out very badly as could any small crappy raft.
Take it from someone who floats the river daily during the winter. Also do many floats after the splash and gigglers are off the water cleaning up the river. I have seen multiple people flip there, and have seen some that required immediate medical attention afterwards.
Be smart