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You left out Sleet. Wea re gettting the full boat tomorrow. KY3 out of Springfield is the most accurite for predicting the weather here. Check em out before you bail on the trip.

My kids have floated with us since they were newborns. At ten they were running their own kayaks. They are now young adult women and run the back of the canoe almost as good as their old dad.

Had great float today! 7 boats out of Baptist to Cedar. Had the County Commissioners from Dent and Shannon with us. This event was written about in the Salem News. Dont let the feds keep you out! The road to Baptist is a Dent county road, we cost shared with the park service to pave it. The Road to Parker is a county maintained road, as well. The road to Cedar is a county road also. I saw lots of fish today and only 1 fisherman. A small group of folks on horse back.

You could spend hrs @ that hole

The longer this goes on the better the fishin will be for me. It was ruff trout fishing this weekend on the upper river. The smallies were taking everything.

You will still be able to get to the Current. Baptist, Parker, and Cedar are on County rds.

check out Troutnut69's blog I prefer my suds in amber bottles.

Huzzah conservation area has frontage on the meramac, huzzah and courois.

One gravel bar not much, However we have thousands of miles of streams in MO. Take 300feet X thousands of miles and thats a chunck of change.

If you did succeed in taking the river front owners property, how would you come up with the cash to compensate them? What about the county's school children that would lose the tax money?

And campgrounds and canoe rentals!

Looks like it's going to go away. Thanks to all who called their county commissioners, State reps, State Sens. and federal Reps and Sens and your local ngos! http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MO_BLUEWAY_BACKLASH_MOOL-?SITE=MOCAP&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Well said. The oufitters on the ONSR are already limited on the amounts of boats they can put in at a given access. What is not regulated is private boats. Becareful of what yuo ask for!

Yes!

The cabin across the road is listed at $158000.00/ acre

http://www.eaglespark.com/property/index.htm $219000.00 for 6.3 acres

IIRC He wanted $220000.00 or so for 8 acres. It was llisted on ebay.

Pinecrest is pretty close to Parker ford and 2? miles from tan vat.

They are closed, also. The owner had a stroke. Try pine crest up on YY.

The sad thing is the ONSR has a 7mil budget this year and will have that same amount next year. The 300gs they are complaining about isan increase in money they planned on getting NEXT Oct. first.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MILK AND BREAD!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 100 acre wood race this weekend should be fun!

Great report.

That's pretty cool!

You guys had a great day to be out for sure.

Packed some friends and family for a fun/ fish float on Sunday. We put in at the lower Welsh landing and floated all the way to Akers. This section has some of the best scenery and often great fishing. We were not disappointed on either this trip. We floated in about 3/4 mile to our favorite hole and gravel bar and set up shop. I caught several nice rainbows before I had to cook up lunch. Fired up our 2 grills and put on some jalapeno poppers (weedless) and brats. About the time the brats were done my wife noticed something down stream 100yds or so. A whitetail buck ran into the river and swam upstream towards us. The wind was blowing upriver but there were 7 of us and our boats. He continued upriver until he was even with us and looked over and noticed all of us! He then swam down stream a few yrds and got out on our gravel bar shook and ran into the woods. A great float saw maybe 10 others I caught 10 sycamore, 5 maple and 3 rainbows. Pulled out at the ferry at 6ish and home in time to watch the game.