Water Level On The Lower Miles

[Ham]

i really struggled with the photo thing UNTIL some kind souls talked me into a PhotoBucket acct.and walked me thru the process. Basically once you have the acct set up, you are able to copy the in the form of a website link. I'm able to quickly post the photos to an OA post.

[grizwilson]

Click on the tri angle near where you want to float.... had good luck with their info. Miles is a excellent source also.

http://ar.water.usgs.gov/buffaloriver/

[Curtis5]

Is 189 CFS high enough to motor up to Rush in a flat bottom from Buffalo City?

[Al Agnew]

Not a chance. 10 hp limit means only prop motors (thankfully). No way a prop makes it past that first bedrock stretch without stopping and dragging up it, let alone a hundred other riffles. You'd probably need at least 800-1000 cfs to be able to motor all the way to Rush, and with a 10 hp limit that would take a LONG time.

[Curtis5]

Thanks Al.

Thats good to know.

I recently bought a river boat and want to get it down there once the water gets up.

[Wayne SW/MO]

When we put in at Rush there is/was a large bar about 1/2 mile down that had a motor in camp. I know they surely couldn't have been going down with it and the camp looked somewhat long term. I suspect they were catfishing and using it in the long pool at Rush.

You can come up the Buffalo 1/4 mile of more I believe and there were several motor boats there when we went out.

[Ham]

You can always motor up a good ways from the Buffalo, but there is an area that is all but dry in drought years for a LONG ways up. In low water years, that's a deal breaker. This year hasn't been dry, but it is still likely impossible to go all the way to Rush.

[Al Agnew]

Last time I floated it, there was a split channel right around Elephant Head Bluff, as I remember, that had sharp dropping rocky rapids on both channels. If that's not changed much, it would stop any prop boat unless there was a lot more water than there is most years in the fall...and be a real pain to drag any loaded river boat up it.

[Ham]

I'm positive Al has a better knowledge of the lower Buffalo than I do. Huge void in my knowledge from Rush until the last couple of water from the White.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I would think the bedrock would be a deal breaker. I don't remember any channel in it and a lot of rocks. It's wide enough that I would think it would take a lot of water to make it passable with a motor.

The rapids at Elephant Head was pretty shallow when we went through and tough with a loaded canoe, we went left, but there wasn't much there.