The species is sometimes active during the hot summer months, but only if it lives in a particularly wet habitat.
It had been hoped that this section would open in May but a particularly wet winter severely delayed construction work.
During particularly wet years when the lake remains full for an extended period of time, northern pike may be stocked, as well.
They hesitated for weeks as autumn turned into a particularly wet and stormy winter.
It began to rain a particularly wet and cold rain.
This has whetted their appetite, and even brought them out two weeks ago on a particularly wet, dreary morning.
However, due to a particularly wet winter the river burst its banks and flooded the site, leaving it deep in mud.
The 1940s and 1950s were particularly wet decades in the basin.
This occurred during a particularly wet period - 1982, 1983, and 1984 were 3 of the 4 wettest years on record.
The completion was planned for late 2008 but a particularly wet winter pushed the opening out to October 2009.