Thunderstorms & Small Creeks

[ThreeLions]

I got caught on Hickman Creek this morning when a fast moving thunderstorm rolled through the area. I left my four rods and keep net out while grabbing my other stuff and headed for a small shelter the other side of a treeline from where I was fishing. An hour and a half later and with very little let up in the rain and lightning I HAD to go gather my outstanding gear as my wife was picking me up from my spot.

I made it to the bankside where I had been sat comfortably just 90 minutes earlier only to see it essentially eradicated by fast running, high waters. I have to say that I have never seen a waterway rise as fast as this did. It must easily have risen three feet in such a short period of time.

Having just completed my first year of fishing and with Stoner Creek being the only other creek I fish I'm wondering: Is the speed of the water rising average for a small creek or did this thunderstorm just put down so much water in such a short amount of time that the creek couldn't handle it?

DAVE

[dericksn11]

Flash Flooding is very natural with small creeks and thunderstorms.

[lunkerbustin]

I have been on Elkhorn and had a thunderstorm and watched a wall of water about a foot high come down stream. It happens quite a bit.

[MetalFish513]

I fish banklick creek and after the little thunderstorm we had last Friday it made the water rise about a foot... not to mention turned it into chocolate milk. Put a HUGE damper on my smallmouth outing. I don't even want to know what it looks like after the storm we had this morning. That would have been a bad storm to be caught out in. I got soaked just running out to my car to roll up my windows.