Floating Roubidoux Creek ABOVE Ft. Leonard Wood

[Conor]

This is another one of those headwaters/tributary streams that interests me.  I am aware that the water goes underground so must be floated at high water much like the Dry Fork of the Meramec.

I scoped this out during a high flow event and it looks like access at Plato would be easy.  I was wanting to float this to Hwy 17 upstream of Ft. Leonard Wood (not Hwy 17 in downtown Waynesville lower down) and take out there.  Has anyone here done this?  How is the scenery and approximately what distance is it from Plato to Hwy 17?  I assume this is mostly in the Roubidoux Sandstone and I have been impressed with other streams that have cut canyons into this formation such as the far upper Big Piney not too far from here and the Bourbeuse.  That far upper Big Piney is very spectacular and was wondering if anyone here had done both stretches to compare them.  I am talking about the part from Simmons Ford to Dog's Bluff in the Houston-Cabool area.

Conor

[fishinwrench]

Me and a buddy stopped and wade fished it on the way home from the Current once.   Looked good but we only found a couple of little largemouth on that particular day.   It's a pretty stream.