Prosperine

[Ozarkroots]

I was just doing some thinking.....I wonder if enough of us wanted to write the MDC about a gravel ramp at Prosperine if they would consider putting one in? It wouldn;t take much, just moving those big rocks mostly....it would just be nice to get put in down there.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I always thought the rocks, if you're talking about the ones blocking the gravel bar, were on private property?

[fishinwrench]

The rocks are there to keep vehicles from clogging up the gravel bar at the swimming hole.

Putting concrete ramps on the Niangua at Barclay and the 64 access was a mistake in my opinion, that is NOT jetboat water....or at least it shouldn't be.

Any stretch of river that requires everyone to get out of the river and hug the bank everytime a jetboat comes by is not an appropriate stretch for that particular craft. Just because it's possible to run it doesn't make it ok, IMO.

[Ozarkroots]

I'd rather have jet boats than all the pricks in canoes that litter the river with beer cans and show everyone their naked parts. I think the Niangua has worse problems than jet motors!

[fishinwrench]

I'd rather have jet boats than all the pricks in canoes that litter the river with beer cans and show everyone their naked parts. I think the Niangua has worse problems than jet motors!

I think it's more accurate to say: It has ENOUGH problems WITHOUT jets.

[Al Agnew]

I've been refraining from making the kind of comments that Fishinwrench just made, but I gotta say I mostly agree with him, and this is coming from somebody who owns and uses a jetboat. I haven't spent that much time on the Niangua, but I know how narrow some of the riffles are in normal low water. In my opinion, it's not really jetboat water except in the higher water of spring. Too many other river users, not all of which are pinheads, too many narrow riffles without good sight lines. Sooner or later somebody is going to get killed on one of these narrow, crowded rivers because they couldn't get out of the way of a high speed jetboat.

My own personal barometer of whether it should be run or not goes two ways. One, I stay off popular rivers on summer weekends because I don't want to have to worry about dodging canoes, kayaks, swimmers, and kids playing in the water. And on smaller streams, those that are marginally jetboatable, I spent too many years in canoes cussing the jetboats on such streams, and still do.

I've come to accept that everybody has the right to use the rivers, but I still think on some streams high speed boat use is incompatible with other uses.

[Ozarkroots]

I've been refraining from making the kind of comments that Fishinwrench just made, but I gotta say I mostly agree with him, and this is coming from somebody who owns and uses a jetboat. I haven't spent that much time on the Niangua, but I know how narrow some of the riffles are in normal low water. In my opinion, it's not really jetboat water except in the higher water of spring. Too many other river users, not all of which are pinheads, too many narrow riffles without good sight lines. Sooner or later somebody is going to get killed on one of these narrow, crowded rivers because they couldn't get out of the way of a high speed jetboat.

My own personal barometer of whether it should be run or not goes two ways. One, I stay off popular rivers on summer weekends because I don't want to have to worry about dodging canoes, kayaks, swimmers, and kids playing in the water. And on smaller streams, those that are marginally jetboatable, I spent too many years in canoes cussing the jetboats on such streams, and still do.

I've come to accept that everybody has the right to use the rivers, but I still think on some streams high speed boat use is incompatible with other uses.

I understand what you're saying. I don't think it would benefit anyone to run a jet in any crowded areas. I and a few others who live here do run them on less busy areas in the summer and more often in the spring and fall......nobody likes to get knocked around in a canoe!

[oneshot]

I was at Barclay one evening when the Floaters were coming in,there was a couple young Guys in there with a Jet Boat not doing any fishing just playing.Yes they had the right to do this but was it right? I really didn't feel it was.

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[XP 590]

Where is Prosperine in relation to Barclay? Up or Down stream? How do you get there by road?

Thanks

[oneshot]

Where is Prosperine in relation to Barclay? Up or Down stream? How do you get there by road?

Thanks

Here you go

http://www.missouricanoe.org/river-maps/niangua.html

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