Tucker and Jared Go Rogue

Oy vey.

Name that Riffle

The new riffles formed by the removal of the Rogue's Gold Ray dam is creating opportunities to name the newly formed runs.

The new Rogue River riffle near the top of what used to be Gold Ray Reservoir has such special meaning for Darryl Gould, he decided to christen it.

Gould caught a big summer steelhead on a fly Oct. 21 at the new riffle, which was exposed when Gold Ray Dam's removal this summer drained the reservoir that had been backed up behind it for 106 years. Then Gould lost a $1,000 rod and reel in the swift water.

"I caught a great steelhead there, lost my rod and then found it," says Gould, of Sacramento. "So we decided to call it 'Lost and Found.' "

LINK ( Via: The Mail Tribune)

Mr. Kriege said that the dredges’ impact on the riverbed was “like fluffing a pillow”

GOLD HILL, Ore. — When four dams on the Rogue River here were scheduled for removal, environmentalists predicted many benefits: more salmon and steelhead swimming upriver to spawn; more gravel carried downriver to replenish the riverbed; more rafters bobbing along 57 miles of newly opened water. 

What they didn't count on was an influx of New 49'ers, suction dredgers looking to sift through the tons of gravel for the gold once hidden behind the dams.

LINK (Via: The NY Times)

Rogue River carves its way around Gold Ray Dam ahead of schedule

Some great news from Oregon.

The Rogue River has started flowing free at the former site of Gold Ray dam for the first time in 106 years. The removal of Gold Ray opens up 157 miles of free flowing river on the Rogue between Lost Creek Dam and the Pacific. 

LINK (Via: Osprey Steelhead News)