Al Agnew

[moguy1973]

13 hours ago, Al Agnew said:

Hmm, I have never seen any version but the ones that give Cherokee Landing area as the furthest upstream.  That was the highest put-in in Oz Hawksley's original book, "Missouri Ozark Waterways", from which all the info is taken in the Paddler's Guide, and as far as I knew they never changed it.  I think Bootleg was the highest access in Chuck Tryon's book, "200 Missouri Smallmouth Adventures".

Yeah.  Went back and looked and they all start at Turkey Creek. I know somewhere in the past though I’ve seen one of these kinds of maps online and it had the starting point as Bootleg.  And had all the accesses up to that point. 

[jdmidwest]

Bootleg is the highest normal water putin I would consider.  There is wading above.

[Al Agnew]

2 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Bootleg is the highest normal water putin I would consider.  There is wading above.

I'd say it's a little above the highest practical put-in.  It's three or four miles from there down to Cedar Creek and the river is seldom floatable above Cedar Creek even in the spring.  By mid-summer most years, you'll walk every riffle and scrape bottom in some pretty long stretches of it above Cedar Creek, and probably have to figure out how to get through log jams as well.  I've never floated from Bootleg--too much trouble.  You'll walk the majority of the riffles in the summer even putting in at the mouth of Cedar Creek.  It routinely flows less than 15 cfs up there, and you need 75 cfs on the Irondale gauge  to float it reasonably cleanly.

[FishnDave]

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