Heard all about the "gold fever" last September from Doug Chapman when I used him for my last trip.  LOTS of folks up there were giving serious thought to panning for the stuff.  Even Doug seemed to be juiced up about it and ready to do a little panning!  On the other hand, I was on the phone with him just this morning and heard no further mention of it so perhaps that was a passing fancy.  What I heard about was the lack of snow & the very low water levels.  If you're planning on much "stream travel" this year, you'd better hope for some serious spring showers!

Jimbo   8-)