Howdy and a few questions

[BeefRavioli]

On 3/15/2016 at 9:15 PM, Al Agnew said:

On summer weekends, any river that has canoe rentals will be busy, but go during the week and most are uncrowded.  You are limited by two things...by mid-summer most of the rivers in northwest Arkansas will be getting too low to float, and not all of them have canoe rentals.  The Mulberry is usually getting pretty low by the end of June.  The Buffalo might be too low above St. Joe.  The Kings River is another option, with one or two canoe rentals, and it's almost always got enough water in the lower portions.  I believe there's also at least one canoe rental on War Eagle Creek.  If you want to go up into Missouri, there are a plethora of canoe rentals on the Elk River.

Farther down toward where you'll end up, the Ouachita is nice, usually has enough water, and has a few canoe rentals.  Another choice down in that area is the Caddo.

I don't think there's any one river out of those I mentioned that has far and away better fishing.  All are beautiful, but the Buffalo is a cut above the rest in scenery.

Hey Al - Thanks for the input. I plan to be doing this trip the first full week of June, like on the 6th or 7th, which is a Monday or Tuesday. I had already thought about it being crowded, but hopefully it won't be to bad on a Mon/Tue. We were leaning towards the Buffalo River and I have talked to a company in Yellville, AR about canoe rental and fishing. 

I have fished parts of the Ouachita River and one of its creeks - Southfork Creek in Mt. Ida (scariest and best fishing trip of my life when I was 13) and have also been in and around the Caddo River. We wanted to explore NW Arkansas a bit but wanted to get some insight from some folks who have been around it a little. Sounds like this forum may be more Missouri based, so that's my fault.

Thanks Again!