![]() So, the water in this river carries an awful amount of sediment, which makes trout fishing difficult, and despite my best efforts, I have never caught a trout while fly fishing there. The only time it runs clear is in the driest of summer months when the river lacks volume, or in the middle of winter when the headwaters are frozen. In the winter and spring, huge amounts of snow melt adds to the discoloration. ![]() I always say the water runs cloudy for 48 weeks of the year, in the warmer months the river carves itself a path through cliffs and gorges rich in mudstone, causing the river’s waters to be thick with sediment. This small mountainous river, barely larger than a stream at times is poorly regarded as a fishery. It was a late summer morning when a mate and I decided to fish a new river. The sediment-rich waters of this river creates patches of quicksand The day I discovered quicksand does exist. Soft mud is horrible, but it is not quicksand. Only more adventurous anglers like myself, who decide to take a shortcut across swamps, estuaries, or shallow lakes have much experience with it. I do my best to avoid it, and most sensible fishermen can. This sort of mud is tedious to walk through and slows process down to a crawl. I am speaking of mud so thick, sticky, and horrible that I sink up to my knees with every step. I am not talking about the sticky mud that forms an annoying layer on the soles of my boots. Throughout my trout fishing career, I certainly had plenty of experience with soft mud. It normally forms where water rich in sediments gets slowed in a depression causing the particles to settle. Quicksand is loosely compacted sand that is saturated in water, it acts more like a liquid rather than a solid. I certainly doubt it is in any way representative of what was shown on 80’s television. I even started to believe it might not even exist outside of some remote jungle swamp. We had all the knowledge.Īs I grew up the presence of quicksand and other imagined perils of childhood were slowly forgotten. Growing up in the 80s Saturday morning cartoons had me believe quicksand was a real threat, in the school yard my mates and I even discussed Strategies on the best ways to escape if we were ever caught.
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