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<blockquote data-quote="PSG-1" data-source="post: 324351" data-attributes="member: 6937"><p>We have indian fish traps on the Great Pee Dee river, between Blewitt Falls Dam and Cheraw, SC. Basically, lines of zig-zagging rocks that go all the way across the river, really visible on google earth. </p><p></p><p>Google is useful for scouting out areas of rivers, and the pictures people post to google/panoramio are helpful to a degree. The only issue is that there's no way to go back in date on the hydrographs and guages to see what the reading was at the date the sat image, or photo, was taken, so, it's hard to interpolate the data, without actually having been on those rivers at various stages of flow.</p><p></p><p>I would guess the potential for danger running upstream would be that going against the current, it causes the transom to squat lower in the water, requiring more draft. Running downstream, my biggest fear would be hitting the upstream side of a rock, then turning sideways and broaching. Both those scenarios are why I have thus far kept off rivers above the fall line. One of these days, I'm going to gather up the nerve to try it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PSG-1, post: 324351, member: 6937"] We have indian fish traps on the Great Pee Dee river, between Blewitt Falls Dam and Cheraw, SC. Basically, lines of zig-zagging rocks that go all the way across the river, really visible on google earth. Google is useful for scouting out areas of rivers, and the pictures people post to google/panoramio are helpful to a degree. The only issue is that there's no way to go back in date on the hydrographs and guages to see what the reading was at the date the sat image, or photo, was taken, so, it's hard to interpolate the data, without actually having been on those rivers at various stages of flow. I would guess the potential for danger running upstream would be that going against the current, it causes the transom to squat lower in the water, requiring more draft. Running downstream, my biggest fear would be hitting the upstream side of a rock, then turning sideways and broaching. Both those scenarios are why I have thus far kept off rivers above the fall line. One of these days, I'm going to gather up the nerve to try it. [/QUOTE]
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