CouesPursuit

March 25

67,800CFS through Camp Verde and still rising. Now 79,000 20 minutes later.

It won't with a good load, rifle and shooter. The center of the charge weight node and low SD tested on a chrono makes the teetering irrelevant if you're consistent.

Test it. The answer varies by load/rifle.

March has been and continues to look wet! The Salt will spill.

I'm going to give some crappies heck tomorrow if I can. Thanks for the temps.

Nice SM and pic, Lance. As of March 5th. Tonto Mid Lake Salt

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Sorry about the misfortune but saying you drew back to back tags may not draw you much sympathy and you did get your bonus point when you put in so you're covered there. Drop that insurance company and FJB. These rising costs suck.

Technology has changed but after that last storm, all indications lead to 2023 being the wettest/best snowpack on the Verde watershed since 1993, which was and will always be a historic year. The Salt watershed is around the 90th percentile.

Right on. SNODAS and SWANN. https://nsidc.org/data/g02158/versions/1 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AGUFM.C43B..01B/abstract https://climate.arizona.edu/snowview/ Unless I misunderstood your point- By numbers you are correct, but only a fraction of water stored in snow makes it to the reservoir. With many others involved, temperature specifically makes a huge variable to the speed of snowmelt and permeability. One big warm rain on a watershed with that much snow to melt is where winter runoff becomes torrential. A cooler watershed with little or no spring rain melts slow and long, and allows water operations much more time and flexibility to handle it. It it tough to predict the future but the Verde has been destined to spill for 6-8 weeks. Roosevelt is just recently modeled to fill, if barely.

Releases will be coming from the Verde system long before the Salt, where spill will be minimal in comparison, if any. The Verde watershed has 600-700k acre-feet of water stored in current snow water equivalent models before this current weather system and there is 64,426 AF of storage available, per SRP's Daily Water Report. The Salt has 525-575k AF of SWE stored with 300,443 AF available.

Great stuff, congratulations to Dad and Levi!

Cool man! I bet that video doesn't do it near justice.

I'm not supporting it but I wouldn't be upset if it passed. If I came to terms with anyone hunting for free, it would be the people who have hunted here for many generations before, who wouldn't have socially and physically demolished the law and ecology of the land instead of some of the people poaching and consuming AZ wildlife today, one way or another. There are likely less federally registered tribal members that hunt than hunting Californians that will migrate to Arizona in '23 alone.

https://river-runner.samlearner.com/ Another thread reminded me of a neat app I'd seen recently, especially during runoff season.

No dig but Standman killed it in '18 if I remember.. granted that guy kills lots of things.

Indeed it was. Thanks for the info and pictures. There isn't much left to melt in the Upper Gila - San Carlos Reservoir but it is surely primed and ready for more runoff. The Mogollons in NM are still packed nicely.

Right, but the lake didn't hold a pool for 2 consecutive spawning seasons before that either.

Stocking isn't needed. The lake just needs to keep water for 18 months and it is full of fish. Unfortunately, it was just empty this past summer. Hopes to spring 2024.

Also accurate but the word "lake" may be a bit deceiving regarding size and purpose. This one is for the MWs. The new power-generating pumped storage project is unnamed at the moment. It is very much in the feasibilty stages of planning.

Immediately downstream, accurate source.

I'm sorry but as I have a lot of Sierra 6mm bullets, none are 70gr Blitzking.