Savage River: Say it ain’t so!
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I have heard unconfirmed reports that the big rains earlier in the winter have washed a catastrophic amount of mud and silt from the now exposed lake bed down into the tailwater section of the Savage.
Has anyone seen the damage? How bad is it really?
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JohnI live close to the Savage and think we must take a wait and see attitude. I understand that a person connected to Savage River Outfitters fished the PHD Hole approx. 2 weeks ago and caught a couple of browns.
The water was running at 1,850 cfs. maybe three weeks ago. It is now at 56 CFS. I have seen it at 700 cfs when white water olympic trials were held. Can’t imagine what the river looked like at 1,850.
The upper gates are supposed to be in place by mid March. Certainly we don’t need a rapid snow melt. I did here that it was very muddy, but has cleared up.
You can go to the Maryland DNR Fisheries web site and click on Savage River to view what is occuring.
If I hear anything, I wll post it here.The Info. now is they are ahead of schedule. The upper gates are in place. It is felt that they can deal with sediment issues much better now. Garrett Co. got 262 inches of snow. We need a slow melt.
Thanks for the updates Dave. I hope the river rebounds well this spring. It is a truly a unique place to fish.
JWHere’s another update,http://times-news.com/local/x1897228995/Savage-dam-repairs-two-weeks-ahead-of-schedule. Just in time!
How is she holding up with the 4 inches of rain?
The Savage is currently running at over 1,100 CFS. The rain and snow melt has really hurt. It is running a chocolate brown. I know a person who meets with the DNR folks involved with trout streams. He told me that the Savage is probably two years away from being back to where it was [fishing] before the dam project. Just found this out.
I have been out of town and this has been my first chance to log on to this site.Apparently, all is not lost pertaining to the Savage. I ran into one of the fisheries people stocking a stream yesterday. I asked about the Savage and fishing. He said that there have been trout caught there in the past couple of weeks. He though the extreme high water and the silt didn’t hurt the fish as much as many had feared. He seemed optimistic that the river will come back faster than people had expected.
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