The farmer has started (is pretty far along) on his stream work. He's taken out trees of the north side (right side, as you walk upstream), and is stabilizing the banks. There's no riprap, yet; but that should be coming. What it means:
The creek got spread out in the HUGE floods back in 2013. Many stretches are (were!) still too wide and thin; the stream Had re-channelized some in the last 5 years, but not as much as needed.
Also, the creek was eating into his cornfield (adding mud to the stream, and costing him money).
His stream work is pushing the stream back up against the bluff, which will deepen the pools, and get rid of the bayous and sloughs . I'll post a pic soon.
Interestingly, it was fishing well on the whole stream; even right where the work was being done. The 'used-to-be-pretty-good hole' is Right where they were digging on Weds; and i caught 5 trouts right there! The new run above the bridge is another spot where he's done work; and it was fishing better than ever!
