Gavin Posted December 10, 2013 Posted December 10, 2013 I've been up above Mint Springs a couple times...Thinking that Hwy B is as far up as I've been..bit of dragging involved usually, but a different character than the mid & lower BB. Need the upper half of the Noser to Reiker and the Goode's Mill Dam to Meramec float to complete that river.
cwc87 Posted December 10, 2013 Posted December 10, 2013 My list starts close to home Upper black river Big creek Castor Sinking creek Maries Dry fork of Gnade Upper pomme Upper niangua Elk That's a start. A lot of water to do!!
Al Agnew Posted December 10, 2013 Posted December 10, 2013 My list starts close to home Upper black river Big creek Castor Sinking creek Maries Dry fork of Gnade Upper pomme Upper niangua Elk That's a start. A lot of water to do!! It's been a really long time since I've done the Castor and Big Creek. We need to do them next summer.
marcusearlt Posted December 10, 2013 Posted December 10, 2013 The current list: Buffalo, any part, my brother has never been any where on except for the time his car got stuck in it!, I have done a couple stretches... North Fork of the White, last time I was there my brother got the flu and we had to leave early, that place owes me some fish.... Spavinaw- Ya, I'm probably going to go ahead and pay the rod fee... I know, I know... White River- way down HWY 16/295 area... Mulberry- might get a Arkansas River striper if I am lucky... Illinois: down there by AR 59, maybe they will have the kayak park up and running by then.... "If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong." John Gierach
hank franklin Posted December 10, 2013 Posted December 10, 2013 Gavin, I too need to do Goodes Mill to confluence to complete the whole Bourbeuse. Once we were above Mint Springs and it was after a big rise and fall in the river, and there were mussels all over the gravel bars. I was tempted to collect and eat them but wasnt sure if they were "in season." Later after looking into it I'm glad I didn't eat them as you probably don't want to consume what amounts to a pollution filter. I ran the Noser to Reiker stretch in something like six hours when I was 16. River was in flood and we were drinking beer like idiots. When we got to Reiker's we couldn't believe it as we weren't due there until the next day. We camped overnight in some muddy woods and ran down to Mayer's the next day. It was my first overnight trip without my dad. We were literally very lucky to survive.
Gavin Posted December 10, 2013 Posted December 10, 2013 Must have been really rolling to do Noser to Reiker in 6 hours...that's 21 miles! It's been a couple years since I've been to Goode's Hank, but I'm still friendly with the family that owns the property. There is a main club house over the old mill race, and a couple rental properties below the dam with an easy put in. Shouldn't be to hard to get access if you want to float it.
cwc87 Posted December 10, 2013 Posted December 10, 2013 Al, it has been way too long. If we keep getting moisture these two rivers should b a good time next year!!
Al Agnew Posted December 11, 2013 Posted December 11, 2013 Must have been really rolling to do Noser to Reiker in 6 hours...that's 21 miles! It's been a couple years since I've been to Goode's Hank, but I'm still friendly with the family that owns the property. There is a main club house over the old mill race, and a couple rental properties below the dam with an easy put in. Shouldn't be to hard to get access if you want to float it.NOOOO!!!! Don't do it, don't do it! The only time I ever floated below Goode's Mill, it was about 110 degrees, the river was very low, and there was absolutely NOTHING to recommend it. As near as I can remember there might have been one or two riffles in that whole stretch.
hoglaw Posted December 11, 2013 Posted December 11, 2013 I've floated the War Eagle probably 30 or 40 times but haven't done that stretch in the video. There are some unmakred public accesses where old roads dead end into the creek between Withrow Springs and Highway 45. I've used those, and I used to use 45 quite a bit but they shut it down. It appears folks still put in there though. It was curious to me that they shut the access at 45 down right about the same time that someone started operating a livery less than a mile downstream from there. I smell shenanegans. I've also taken out at the mill quite a few times. As far as rivers on the bucket list, I really want to get over there to NEA and do the 11pt in Arkansas. A lawyer that used to work for us has some family land over there and they run small jets all over it. They catch a lot of good smallmouth and walleye. I'd like to do the current river as well. The only Arkansas streams left on my list are the Saline, the Illinois Bayou, and the Little Red headwaters of Greers Ferry and the associated forks there. I've heard the Illinois Bayou has some phenomenal fishing.
Guest Posted December 11, 2013 Posted December 11, 2013 I grew up catfishing the lower St. Francis and Black Rivers, never fished the upper ends. I learned to trout fish, canoe, etc at the Spring river @ Hardy but never bass fished it. Ive fished the Dardanelle side of the Big Piney and Illinois Bayou. The middle/lower Illinois @ Tahlequah Places I highly recommend: Upper Buffalo Big sugar/Elk Lower Kings River Lower War Eagle Middle Crooked Creek
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