I checked out a coupla spots sunday while babysitting. (wife out of town) The river looked awful at the British Intersection , and I went and checked Pop's as well. For some reason I was expecting that area to look more like it does near the Red Bluff Creek confluence, rather than so much like the SA River south of downtown.

After seeing the speed and shallowness of the river there, I'm definitely rethinking my ideas about putting in there and paddling upstream. Both because it looks like more work than fun for me, and the river's current conditions make it look like the whites would have to work pretty hard to get TO Pop's, and still harder to get any further up. There was a long pool near Pop's, and then a shallow turbulent riffle just below it.

Based on what I saw, the lake needs to come up a good bit more before there's much use in fishing for White Bass upstream from Pop's. Then again, maybe white bass are more salmon like on their spawning run that I'm giving them credit for.