It can be useful to have someone to help with anchoring if you are going to do that.

Re: what Jordanlimit said - it will be a zoo up there this weekend being the last of keeper season. You may have people wanting to kill you launching/recovering by yourself or you could have folks more than willing to help to expedite things.

Latest flow projections are 10,000 cfs on Sat and Sun, 8,000 cfs on Mon and Tues, 6,500 Wed - Fri.

So the dropping flows will knot the fish up more just at the time the crowds drop so if you want to fish for fun vs meat go Mon or later. They will be around a few more weeks although probably start spawning with the warm weather next week. Hopefully that midweek subtropical system some weather stations are starting to talk about won't materialize and flush out the young.