Wolf River Dive Report

[Omicron]

Several of us did this dive today as well.

About the same conditions as Todd had. 1 to 7 feet of viz, mild current, 33 degree water temps. We had less ice on the shoreline.

Saw several large carp, and several sturgeon so it made the extremely cold water worth it. Had a little problem with some first stages freezing up on us but otherwise things went okay. One thing that was weird was all the frogs - 100's of frogs all over the river bottom - they were all sprawled out and looked like they were dead. I'm thinking that they were just settled in for the long winter, hibernating...but it was weird looking. At one point, Doug's fin kicked up about half a dozen of 'em into my face...heh. It was kind of funny.

In talking about this dive site, I REALLY, REALLY want to caution anyone going here. DO NOT do this dive unless you are spot on with your skills and you've got the gear to support it. It is EXTREMELY cold, very low viz, and can at times have very high current. In addition to that, it can at times be like navigating a 3-D maze - logs sticking out everywhere, rocks, metal structure - you can get caught up in just about anything. I just would hate to here about something happening to someone there.