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For now before more runs are reported.  I would start with -3" or -4" to be a bare minimum for a first timer to go down and check it out with no push but the slides still a little scrappy.  I am guessing 2 inches to be the low side of optimal with about 6 to 8 inches being on the high side of optimal, but this is just a guess for now.  If you get a visual of the gage report the level, time, and date on comment section or email me at jljames2@catamount.wcu.edu and we will get this gage dialed in. If chattooga is 2 feet or a little over Upper Stekoa should have enough water to at least float down.  I have caught this run when the Chattooga spiked at only like 1.9 so it goes alot more often than runs like overflow.  If clayton gets an inch of rain in a 12 hour period or less then this one ussually goes.  Logan James

Visual, drive down Rickman Airfield Road to the overlook for the waterfalls and see if you get scared or not.

I painted a paddler's gage on the new Hwy 441 southbound bridge over Stekoa on 7/14/07. To see it, you'll need to park on Rickman Airfield Road, carefully cross 441 to the median between the north and southbound bridges. The gage is on the southbound bridge river right, downstream pilon. Please report your levels and low, medium and high info so we can dial this gage in and develop a correlation. E-mail info to me at h2olevelcheck@hotmail.com. -- Thanx -- Rob Maxwell