W/o looking it up, what's your guess to what the Red and Ouachita River rank in flow rate?

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This the OB. Use your other alter.

It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that the reservoir I fish several times a week, Lake Texoma from the Red River, flows down to Louisiana like that.

The Red River below the Denison Dam is barely flowing unless they're generating from the dam.

Also, the upper Red here has a high salt content which is perfect for the self-producing striper population. They haven't stocked that badboy with stripers since the 60s. Salt content is high from the salt n the western Oklahoma-Texas basin.

There are other reservoirs that dump into the Red as well. We watch it here(CENLA) as we use a park in Pineville inside the levee. It often floods.

That's pretty cool. Even though I know it's true, it's hard to imagine when you're on that big old lake. And the drive over the 69/75 bridge just below the dam and you can walk across the Red when they're not generating power.

You guys would be amazed at how many pounds of striper meat is pulled out of that lake every single day. With a limit of 10 per person, that's a lot of meat for 1 person. And they get hammered daily. It's crazy that there are that many stripers that thousands can be taken during the summer and the population keeps reproducing.

I fished a pro am there once. Was not in a hurry to get back. I could not believe the number of what looked, to me, to be ocean going vessels.

interesting data point.......the corps of engineers have monitored silt content in the Mississippi for the last hundred years and there was a big change in the 1950's. The monitored silt content dropped by 2/3 over that 10 year period. Sooo the lack of silt caused a big loss in coastal wetlands. What caused the siltation loss??? The corp did a big nation wide campaign to reduce muddy water runoff .