A Flood Is Not All Bad

Right now the Wisconsin River is out of its banks and even the river bottoms are running full and with quite a current.  It makes fishing very hard if not impossible.  But this flood will make things much better in the coming months and years.

Anyone who runs a boat on the river during the summer knows how hard it is to navigate.  The sandbars are sometimes nearly from bank to bank with a small channel or none at all.  A good flood will scour out those bars and create a new channel that will be deep and easy to run next summer.

The same thing happens in the bottoms when the water comes up and a current runs through the normally quiet waters.  The current will loosen big chunks of bogs and move them out of the sloughs.  It will also scour out some of the weed beds clearing places for the fish to hide and lay eggs.  Instead of a solid mass of vegetation, many of the sloughs become small lakes with open water for much better fishing.

The current will also wash out some of the smaller bluegills and bass and those that are left behind will have more food and a better chance of growing up to be a “keeper” fish.

Floods are nature’s way of restoring things in the water world.  While they sometimes are inconvenient, they do a lot of good too.

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post by: Dan Bomkamp