Looking for ideas about shallow water/big rock warning

[FBRDrifter]

Here are two great sources on river flow and level information. I use these regularly.

NOAA - https://water.weather.gov/ahps/

USGS - https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt

 

[PSG-1]

Same here. NOAA has flow data from gauging stations for pretty much every river in the US. Very good data for the river runners.

Much the same way we use the tide info here at the coast, we know at what tide stage certain creeks, etc are passable, and when they are not.

 

[FBRDrifter]

I think I may do what catmansteve suggested and put a guard on the skeg, just in case. This would be mostly for getting into what I know to be shallow waters, though free of any big rocks. We will many times, after a good flood, go out and do some recon. One on the O/B and the other on the bow as a lookout. This is mostly looking for submerged timber. The bottom doesn't change very much as it is mostly rocky.