Greasy B Posted July 17, 2012 Posted July 17, 2012 Thought you were going to the GNade? How'd ya do on the BP? Yea, we flipped a coin and Piney won. Good trip, I'll see if I have any pictures worthy of sharing. His father touches the Claw in spite of Kevin's warnings and breaks two legs just as a thunderstorm tears the house apart. Kevin runs away with the Claw. He becomes captain of the Greasy Bastard, a small ship carrying rubber goods between England and Burma. Michael Palin, Terry Jones, 1974
hank franklin Posted July 17, 2012 Author Posted July 17, 2012 Nice pics Blazer. Twin Springs is such a nice little neighborhood, good fishing through there too. My side of the family and my wife's side both have places at Grus's, so we're very familiar with that stretch. On Saturday we had lunch across from the cave, fished, splashed etc for a good hour or so. Not one boat in sight. I'd been at the cave and spring many a time but rarely if ever by canoe, always by jet. You can't run the shoal below Twin Springs by jet so we had the river to ourselves. Yes the drought is awful but I guess to everything there's a silver lining. We found it this weekend.
Greasy B Posted July 17, 2012 Posted July 17, 2012 You can't run the shoal below Twin Springs by jet so we had the river to ourselves. How far up from Red Horse can the jets navigate? Having a jet myself I have had to adjust my usual destinations and dust off the canoes. I would agree that there is a bit of a silver lining to the low water, I just hope it's temporary. His father touches the Claw in spite of Kevin's warnings and breaks two legs just as a thunderstorm tears the house apart. Kevin runs away with the Claw. He becomes captain of the Greasy Bastard, a small ship carrying rubber goods between England and Burma. Michael Palin, Terry Jones, 1974
Blazerman Posted July 17, 2012 Posted July 17, 2012 Greasy B, you can get past Shady beach and go under the bridge but after that there is a litttle island on the left with some low water that has small boulders. Trying to get by there on the right side is dicey right now. Last time i was there I hit two different big rocks and got two new dents. Put the Blazer away after that and haven't gotten it out since. For the record I didn't hit them on the way up-hit them coming back down. Seems like heading downstream is alway tougher than going up.
hank franklin Posted July 17, 2012 Author Posted July 17, 2012 Not sure, we didn't go all the way to K bridge, we took out at Meramec Shores. Based on past experience however I'd say that north bend area in particular would be impassable. The boats at M Shores were all running upstream, there was a mile, maybe 1.5 mile that you could run. At Wall's Fords however it was no go. I've heard you can still run the State Park all the way down to Sand Ford but that was a couple weeks ago and was hearsay. No running above State Park.
cwc87 Posted July 19, 2012 Posted July 19, 2012 Put in at sand ford went down. Dont know if the above picture with the dock in it is blazermans or not but that riffle below it in that picture will get u. I bumped going down and I made it fine going up. My set up is a shallow running 1650 express with a 60/40. Fishing was ok the biggest ones just smacked at the topwater. Best bite was small plastics in moving water..
Mitch f Posted July 19, 2012 Posted July 19, 2012 Had the same thing going on the other day with the topwater. "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
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