This is the time of summer when thoughts and conversations among fly anglers turn to the question of when Anderson Ranch Dam flows will drop from the summer boating flows to the wading flows of late summer and fall.
You might hear hushed, brief conversations at the fly shops. The USGS and Bureau of Reclamation river flow web pages get more looks. People start to look at some days in September they can block on their calendar.
Unlike the precision of Friday night lights coming on the last weekend in August for high school football, the exact days for the flows dropping is different year to year. Our prediction is after the jump:
