Rex Trulove
Looking just downstream from where we fished, this sandbar is densely covered with silver willows. These are a kind of river willow and although it is a bush rather than a tree, it is very hardy. The river water level is down, though not tremendously low. When the water is high, as it gets every spring, these willows are under water, with only the tallest tips showing. Obviously, they withstand being submerged for part of the year.
The picture isn’t expansive enough to show it, but this is an eddie pool, where the water swirls around and actually moves upstream to the point that this picture was taken. It is normally a good place for bass, walleyes, squawfish, perch, and there are northern pike that prey on the other fish.
