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Show 5434 Yokey- RD 3445 and spreads out and deposits maybe half a mile, or a few hun-dred yards further down. That is the time you ought to be running your boats to make a channel. Q What effect does the alternate rising and falling of water have upon the channel and the sandbars? A It is considerable. Q Just explain that, please. A When she is rising, whatever obstruction comes be-cause of different currents cuts out and deposits different places; when she falls, that makes different currents; they cut and deposit another place. Q In the trips you have made on the Green river have you always found the channel or the deepest water in the same location? A Generally pretty close; always find plenty of water on the outside of a bend. Where you cross from one bend to the other, that is where you have trouble locating the channel. My experience is, you come along with the boat and come into a bar, you feel the pull of the rudders eases up. You edge along and come to deep water, and it will turn in; by the sence of touch you can wind on through and find the channel |