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This morning I got a little surprise as I reached for my first cup of coffee.  The overnight storm and delivered more water to our backyard channel than either Hannah or a recent strong nor'easter.

Yesterday my fishing buddy, Dean, and I had managed to get in a couple of later afternoon hours of fishing before steady rain made us head for the docks.  I had taken the time to scrub down the boat in the rain, but none of the weather reports suggested that we might be in for high water this morning.

However, living on a coastal river has prepared us for surprises.  We often get a series of very high tides, and sometimes we get very low tides.

With a combination of wind, water, storms, and the moon working on the river, it is hard to predict what you will see in any given time period.

The high water really is not much of a problem for us.  If we got another three feet that would be a different story.  The biggest challenge after high water is that dead vegetation and tree limbs tend to have floated into the river.

Then there is the other side of the coin, we get some very interesting fish after a flood tide like this.