James River - Hardware to New Canton

Date of trip: September 4th, 2011
River Level: 2.77 ft (Scottsville)
Discharge: 1.15kcfs

http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=akq&gage=rmdv2&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0

http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/waterbodies/display.asp?id=158§ion=maps
A braided channel with many small islands. Very scenic with much Class I and II riffles. Redbrest and smallmouth provide most fishing action. Take out downstream from Route 15 bridge, on right.

--My Notes
Kayak: Sea Kayak Malibu II (tandem kayak, with just me)
This was a fun run. It took me less than 2 hours. You would need to beyond basic paddling skills for this section. You needed to read the river flow on many of the sections and decide how to get through. However, even if you chose wrong there was probably only 1 section that if you made a mistake you could get yourself beat up a bit. This must have been one of the class II sets. You can see the river flow at top of this page to see when I ran it. The section was fun enough to do again.