After several years of implementing this project in drought, the Sutter Bypass was currently inundated with floodwaters in late-December 2022 into early-January 2022. The UC Davis (UCD) science team was fully prepared to begin sampling for recruitment of natural occurring fishes (wild or hatchery-origin) and monitoring water quality consistent State and Federal agreements to operate the project. Autonomous dissolved oxygen and temperature loggers were previous deployed in our study field and will be downloaded daily once the fields are accessible. Before flooding, we successfully deployed two lines of acoustic receivers before the bypass flooded to monitor fish fitted with Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) tags when they enter the part of the Sutter Bypass we are studying to better understand how salmon are using the broader Sutter Bypass ricelands areas. These lines have the capacity for detecting fish tagged by other groups using JSATS that may route through the Sutter Bypass.