old swimming holes and floods

[dooy]

does floods clean out the goodies in the old swimming holes in the creeks and river? I have a creek where I grew up and there was a couple swimming holes used for years but we had a major flood in 85.
Thanks for any help .

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Diving for Pleasure and Treasure - Grab it through Amazon!

[doc-d]

Great question……anybody have experience to share?

 

[Tom_in_CA]

depends on the type body of water, but generally, if a creek or river is prone to "boom and bust" cycles, then yes: swimming holes will be silted in at times, then blown out at others, and so forth. Where I'm at in CA, for instance, is a "chapparel" type of terrain. And any swim hole along creeks or river are no good. At least in-so-far as in the water type hunting. Granted beaches up higher that aren't affected, will be different. But in the path of water and wet-sand is always scr*wed up with torrential flows, subsding to totally dry seasonals.

 

[liftloop]

water flows slower on the bottom than the top so it hard to say unless. there is silt like tom suggested and dab-re scraping the bottom and putting it in the upper flow were it moves along swiftly just to settle out further down the river....




liftloop


posted with windows xp

 

[dooy]

Thanks a lot guys,I think I might give water a try this summer.Ill let you know how it go's.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Depends on the bottom type. Is it silt, sand, or gravel? Gravel is VERY hard to move. I have been gold dredging in gravel beds which had massive floods come through and my hole was still there afterwards. Anything else would probably get blown out.