Rogue River Ennis Riffle Options

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Did we get accosted by anyone? No. Did we find any gold? Yes. Just haven’t done the final cleanup yet to say how much.

We got a way later start then planned. Once we got to the river, we encounter the Hell Gate boats were running the channel we were going to work along side…making huge waves and really clouding the water.
Didn’t know their schedule, wasn’t sure how many more boats they were going to be running, so we waited a bit. Than the Sheriff Patrol boat went racing through going down river…didn’t know when it was coming back through. Don't want to be anywhere close to the channel with those power boats coming and going.

We pulled out and went to Galice for a short time then headed back to Ennis. One of the others that was going to be working in that area of the river with us had just arrived. Got to looking over the area, pick our spots and got to unloading and setting up when the Sheriff patrol boat went racing back up river…didn’t appear he even looked our way.

We were in the water 3-4 hours I’m thinking…time we got in, set up and working and time we stopped to load up. The workings with my ‘Mineral Exploration Machine’ ended up something like 5-6 feet wide by about 13-14 feet long, working through about 2-3 feet of overburden…some pretty big rocks…just barely manageable. We got into some very nice looking stuff toward the end. We were working from just off shore a bit (probably 12 or so feet out) moving toward the channel.

Will try and get some pics posted later.

Oh, was told by someone working with a 2, there was a 3, 4, and a 5 there in the same general area last weekend.