Are the shad in the Potomac yet? Bird report

[Flying Fish]

Drove over Chain Bridge today, and the river seems to be in great shape, but I saw no cormorants, no gulls, no herons, and no ospreys, all of which says to me that the fish aren't there yet either.

FF

[RJohn]

8 ft/80,000cfs at 6:15 AM--swim little fishey! How about next week?
John
[sad]

[flyhead]

The Potomac is straight Hersheys syrup right now! Looks darker than last week. It'll be awhile before it clears and comes down to the 4' range...

[HJS]

Tuesday morning, Potomac flow graphs all the way up to Paw-Paw are looking grim and still climbing sharply. Way higher then last week's rain that fell on fairly dry soils. This is going to take a while to work through the system.

[AlexT]

Its at 80,000 CFS right now at LFD. That is blow-out material.

[kwk]

They raised the flood walls at Washington Harbour today in anticipation of the mess coming down the Potomac ...

[mharton]

Now when I jump of the Key Bridge in despair, I won't have so far to fall.

This chews.

[Tissy Furnes]

Mharton,

When you are ready to jump, let me know -- we can do it together.

The Little Falls gauge just breached 10 ft -- it's officially a flood! Maybe if we get 10 days of dry or virtually dry weather we might still have a shad fishery this year. But the chances of that happening in April......

Ugh!

TF