Flooding on the west side.

[guywhofishes]

Silent, ND?

 

[Kurtr]

Solen. Mf autocorrect

 

[Mgx2400]

I catch all my 30" walleyes near silent. Fun little town

 

[Brian Renville]

https://www.facebook.com/658079340907621/posts/2089158171133057?sfns=mo

There is still a jam but things are moving. Reporting about a 4 foot drop overnight. ��

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Water is way up by silent,Nd over the hi way. They are evacuating everyone along the Moreau I hope a bunch of ice breaks up. There is about 2 feet of water under the snow all around my house glad I built it up and with positive drainage. Neighbors are not as lucky

Wow, hope they can keep that damage minimal.

 

[dean nelson]

Solen. Mf autocorrect

Yeah and today's heat sure won't help out. Hell oahe is taking in 130,000 cfs right now and only letting flipping 4,000! That will burn up your flood pool in a hurry....She came up almost 9 inches alone yesterday.

 

[Kurtr]

i think the smelt might be bye bye again. We were so close to getting back to good fishing well might be limits of 15 again with no food for the fish

 

[Bfishn]

You would think they could change something on Oahe so they weren't taking water from the water column where the smelt roam. Didn't they change Sak a decade or so ago from taking from the bottom to taking closer to the top? Sak just doesn't suffer from the smelt flush like Oahe does.

 

[Kurtr]

I have thought the same thing

 

[Obi-Wan]

Maybe they could manage the dams to be able to handle more than slightly above average snow/water conditions

 

[Kurtr]

Maybe they could manage the dams to be able to handle more than slightly above average snow/water conditions

Most snow ever in mobridge. I don’t think water is so much the problem as the ice is

 

[Brian Renville]

https://www.facebook.com/lulu.dishon/videos/10211965761293993/

Here is more surfing moose this one got out ok. Sounds like the Buford area is jammed up and the water is coming up fast. Just so much volume right now.

 

[dean nelson]

You would think they could change something on Oahe so they weren't taking water from the water column where the smelt roam. Didn't they change Sak a decade or so ago from taking from the bottom to taking closer to the top? Sak just doesn't suffer from the smelt flush like Oahe does.

That would be counter productive. Saks intake is at the bottom where as oahes is mid column thus the reason why she's so bad at sucking smelt through since that's where the smelt tend to hang during the middle of the day during the middle of the summer. You think eventually the state of South Dakota would just say screw it and invest several million dollars in a gigantic net that they could place in a loop around the intake structure. Needless to say it would have to be big enough that it can reach the bottom but also not so close to the intake structure that it actually gets sucked in but it'd be a relatively easy thing to do just fairly expensive.

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i think the smelt might be bye bye again. We were so close to getting back to good fishing well might be limits of 15 again with no food for the fish

At lest So far we look to come up short of last year's peak. Searched several times but as of yet I can't find any mention of any big smelt loss last year. Since last year was very similar to 1997 I thought for sure they would get sucked out again but if they did no one seems to be mentioning it.

 

[guywhofishes]

whales herd their prey with bubble curtains

govt needs to invest in a bubble curtain around the intake

 

[raider]

i went by lake jesse about 430 and the hwy 85 bridge about 445... a clearly visible wide chocolate milk channel is visible at lake jesse and there is no ice as far as you can see in either direction from the 85 bridge... should start going down soon i would think...

 

[Paddledogger]

https://www.facebook.com/lulu.dishon/videos/10211965761293993/

Here is more surfing moose this one got out ok. Sounds like the Buford area is jammed up and the water is coming up fast. Just so much volume right now.

Hopefully it doesn’t stay jammed long if it is. Can’t view the video without logging into Facebook.

 

[eyexer]

I think with all the flooding throughout the missouri river basin and all the snow out west yet, Sak has to get over the spillway again.

 

[Brian Renville]

Still rising around Buford, wow.

 

[Kurtr]

My back yard

 

[Brian Renville]

i went by lake jesse about 430 and the hwy 85 bridge about 445... a clearly visible wide chocolate milk channel is visible at lake jesse and there is no ice as far as you can see in either direction from the 85 bridge... should start going down soon i would think...

Crazy thing is I went over the 58 bridge at about 5pm central and while it's about a feet and a half from going over the east bank(tall side) there is still ice on the river unbroken and not moving.

 

[dean nelson]

I think with all the flooding throughout the missouri river basin and all the snow out west yet, Sak has to get over the spillway again.

Based on What? The yellowstone is already dropping from the plains runoff and it would take 15 more feet to get to the spillway. To put it into perspective that even with all of this flooding on the Yellowstone in the last 10 days the lake is risen only two feet.