The water level on the Grand Falls Flowage has been getting lower throughout the month of June. There has been little rain to replenish the call for power at the hydro dam that powers the local mill and we are about 1.5 feet down from ‘normal’ water level.

The water level has not affected the fishing as far as we can tell and overall the fishing has been great so far this season with the exception of the heat wave that came through here last week where a) the fish were laying low and b) the humans were laying low as well…. it was brutal out there for just about three days.

The spawn this season was early and we saw beds on our shoreline on May 20th for just over a week and the Flowage was in spawn for roughly 2 weeks depending on where you were. The black flies were early and the dragonflies were too. They decimate even the thickest of black fly populations in about 4 days which was late May this year. This is the second year the black flies didn’t survive to see the month of June.

Weather has returned to normal and we are looking at a week of rain and thundershowers (finally). Maybe the rain will raise the water level back up to a more normal level and keep it there for the rest of the season.