North

Paddled it today at levels between 6-700cfs on the Stokesville gauge. With the side streams coming in, I'd say it was over 1000cfs of actual flow by the take-out. The rapids were largely class 3-3+, with one section that was low Class 4 (towards where the river leaves the forest, consists of a series of slides and big wave trains). The minimum is definitely too low, you could easily run this over 1000cfs, just have to be on the lookout for strainers.

There is one that's been there for a few years; it comes after the river splits around an island about 1.5 miles in. There is a shallow channel that juts off 90 degrees to the left, at low flows the right channel was a beaver dam, at high flow, it looked like the correct channel to take. Problem is, when these channels come back together, a really nasty strainer is across the entire river, chest high, with branches sticking out from it that make it very dangerous because there are no eddies after the channels come together. In the winter, it collects ice balls making it a river-wide wall. The key is to take the shallow channel and get out before the two merge back together.