Category: Behind the Boats

Water levels are holding mostly steady or dropping so we shouldn’t have any trouble keeping the sandbars we’ve got. Rain this week was less than expected and the forecast through the weekend looks pretty great (maybe a little breazy Sunday). Sandbars, while smaller than normal, are out there. Should be a pretty good weekend!

Monday morning update: Water levels are continuing to recede. It’s a little tight today and tomorrow but we’ll start getting some more breathing room by Wednesday and that should get us to the start of the weekend. Beyond that, still questionable. It depends almost entirely on what happens with the rain tomorrow (Tuesday). The current…

Wednesday Afternoon Update It’s official – sandbars will be gone for a few days starting Friday Dams upstream just started pumping out more than enough water to shut us down and it’s likely to go higher yet. We’ll have great conditions until early Friday morning (water will start rising overnight) but by Friday night there…

Saturday afternoon update: Storms held off today, that was nice! Water levels up north have peaked and should start receding down here on Monday evening into Tuesday. If the current forecast holds, we should have plenty of sandbars for this coming weekend. Previous update: Thursday’s rainfall was substantial and statewide. Water levels have come up…

Conditions are good and getting better. Sandbars are out in large numbers and by Thursday it’ll be more sand than river. The weather is looking phenomenal for being on a river. Highs in the upper 80s (albeit sticky so more like 90s) and a massive high pressure system building so clear sunny skies for dayz.…

Water levels are coming down, more sandbars everyday, and the long range forecast looks amazing. This coming 4th of July weekend seems to have everything going for it!

======================================= Final update for the weekend – I was feeling real good about the drop in water levels until I noticed the Lemonweir River running over 2kcfs. That was a big surprise whereas the Baraboo River is the next tributary over and it’s running less than half that (usually these roles are reversed). Why is…

Water levels are currently still high enough to cover most sandbars and overnight trips are on hold through Thursday. Day trips are still good to go and feedback about current conditions from those that weren’t planning to camp has been good. The rain storms of the past few days have pretty evenly covered the state…