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Originally Posted by Sportsman
Keg, is the river primarily sandy, rocky or both. I'm not an expert but not a novice either. I can read rivers but was just wondering on average bottom/ depth etc at that time of year. I don't want to be running in 6-12" of water for a week.
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I don't run the river that far south. Up here it depends on where in the channel you are.
Where there is good current there is all gravel. Where there is little to no current there is a lot of sand and silt. Several feet deep in places.
Around here the average depth is about six feet late in the summer.
Problem is there is a lot that is under a foot deep.
Average depth in the center of the main channels is usually around 12 feet in the bends and maybe 8 feet on the straights. But there are places where the deepest part of the river is only four feet deep.
I would expect that upsteam of Peace River town the river would be significantly shallower since there are several large feeder streams between there and here.
There is the Notikewin, the Whitemud, the Codotte, the Smoky and many smaller streams.
The problem with the Peace is that it's a big river and it's fools people.
There are sandbars where one would not expect to find sandbars. And they move. They may or may not be there next season.
The dam has made it much worse.