Fall Creek Gravel Bar - Pictures

[brother dave]

Can't wait to see how the fish take to those rocks!

[trythisonemv]

Looks like a new wading hole...

[Terrierman]

That is going to make the trip up to the dam a lot more challenging. Do not like the looks of that at all.

[Seth]

I was on the White at Rim fishing below the first island and I heard a jet running up river. I'm middle right of the river so no big deal. I hear the guy coming a long time before I see him. As I remember it was a Blazer, but it may have been some othe raluminum model with a 90 HP I think. Instead of running the deeper water channel, he chose to run some super skinny stuff on the far left. I thought to myself that he was a knucklehead for going out of his way to run super shallow, but away he goes and I go back to fishing. About an hour later I hear him running south. I'm in the same general area, but tucked further to the right. Well out of the way. This guy with two passengers is at WOT throttle and takes it over wet gravel bar that was about 6 inches out of the water instead of a nice 18 inch channel. The go completely airborne for a while and bounce hard on re-entry. Never let off the throttle, never looked back, just kept flying downstream. Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover.

Guys with inboards and HDPE bottoms do that crap all the time! They will purposely jump gravel bars and logs and keep on scooting as soon as they hit water again. You won't see me doing that (on purpose) in my boat! I need at least 4" of water. There are a few areas on the Gasconade that require me to actually "slide" the boat over them when the water is low because they literally have a trickle of water going over the gravel. They are very small spots in water that I'm very familiar with so I have no problems slide sideways to get the boat out of the water just a touch higher so I can make it over, but I wouldn't be trying it on something I'm unfamiliar with.

[Ham]

I hear you Seth, but he had an outboard jet. No clue if he had a fancy coating on his hull. I think he was just a huge knucklehead.

[Otis Roostertail]

I was on the White at Rim fishing below the first island and I heard a jet running up river. I'm middle right of the river so no big deal. I hear the guy coming a long time before I see him. As I remember it was a Blazer, but it may have been some othe raluminum model with a 90 HP I think. Instead of running the deeper water channel, he chose to run some super skinny stuff on the far left. I thought to myself that he was a knucklehead for going out of his way to run super shallow, but away he goes and I go back to fishing. About an hour later I hear him running south. I'm in the same general area, but tucked further to the right. Well out of the way. This guy with two passengers is at WOT throttle and takes it over wet gravel bar that was about 6 inches out of the water instead of a nice 18 inch channel. The go completely airborne for a while and bounce hard on re-entry. Never let off the throttle, never looked back, just kept flying downstream. Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover.

Ham:

Apparently you weren't close enough to hear the operator say, "Here, hold my beer - Watch this." LOL

[dennishoddy]

Thanks for the pics. The mouth of falls creek has always been one of my favorite places to fish when we go to Tanneycomo and stay at Lilley's in November.

The water will likely be down to normal levels by then, so It looks like a person might have to raise the motor, put on the waders and pull the boat through the shallows? We take our own 14' aluminum.

I agree, it does look like a new wading area.

Will they allow dozers/track hoes in there to clean up the mess and put it back to the way it used to be? That's not natural flooding erosion/stream changes. Its man made.