We Got Water Now!

[Mitch f]

Up way over Scott's Ford bridge. Won't be fishable for a few days!

[joeD]

Thank you. We need the rain. We need a good flushing. (Ha ha very funny! Didn't see that one coming). We need more rain.

[cwc87]

Nice rise last Wednesday almost spilled over the banks but we will take what Mother Nature gives us. Now if we can figure out how to retain our rainfall instead of it getting sucked down the Mississippi !

[Al Agnew]

There are a few problems with the recent high water, though, as I found out today. Fished Big River out of the jetboat. Plenty of water to run it, but the boat ramp at Merrill Horse where I planned to put in had 6 inches of very slick mud all over it and the road in was practically washed out. Didn't chance putting in there, don't think I could have pulled the boat back out over all the mud. Then, ran up the river about three miles from Browns Ford, and there was a tree down across a fast, narrow riffle. Couldn't run it, but was able to take the shoes off, roll up the pants legs, and pull the boat through the thin limbs on the shallow side. Water was still very murky down there. Caught ten bass, biggest an 18 inch smallmouth. Found out coming back down that there was a cheater route where the tree was down on the other side of an island, not runnable but floatable, but was pretty worried that I'd get the boat wedged on a rock--fast water and very narrow. A rather adventuresome day!

[cwc87]

I had one of those adventures on the gasconade last September Tree across river. Shallow s- curve around it going upstream in my jet. I made it up.

On the way back down when I floated in to the down sycamore the hole thru the tree was narrow and just up out of the water to walk my 1650 express thru. Barely the motor got wedged for a spell until I heaved my brains out pushing the boat thru. Boy a guy sure does stuff to get to the smallies!!!