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re: Where to go on 5ish day bass fishing river float
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:41 am to The Last Coco
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:41 am to The Last Coco
I’d say either the Buffalo River or Crooked Creek in NW Arkansas…great smallmouth fishing!!
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Posted on 6/25/26 at 1:38 pm to The Last Coco
My lease has a mile or so of the Lano on it. Had a blast a few weeks ago with an ultra light and bobber.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:22 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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Devils or pecos river.
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Eleven pt river
These look great.
I need to dig more into reasonable float distances/day for each.
Also need to look at rainfall for Eleven pt. A big factor in planning so far out is picking a more weather stable option.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 12:14 pm to The Last Coco
You can float the Eleven Point almost year round since it's spring fed. Greer spring puts 200 million gallons of water daily into the river.
Its one of the biggest springs in the US and there are two similar sized springs close by. Big Springs flows into the Current River in MO and Mammoth Spring flows into Spring River in AR
Its one of the biggest springs in the US and there are two similar sized springs close by. Big Springs flows into the Current River in MO and Mammoth Spring flows into Spring River in AR
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:30 pm to ozktgr
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You can float the Eleven Point almost year round since it's spring fed. Greer spring puts 200 million gallons of water daily into the river.
Its one of the biggest springs in the US and there are two similar sized springs close by. Big Springs flows into the Current River in MO and Mammoth Spring flows into Spring River in AR
Thats pretty awesome.
I am more concerned about seasonal rainfall cloudying up the river and shutting down the fishing. On our coastal plain rivers along the northern gulf, a good rain messes up fishing for ~2 weeks.
How long does eleven pt take to clear and how often is that an issue?
Posted on 6/27/26 at 12:36 pm to The Last Coco
Just curious and I know this isn’t a place OP would likely want to go. How is the Kisatchie river? I’ve never seen it but is it floatable at all and is fishing any good out there? I live in Shreveport and have thought about checking it out.
This post was edited on 6/27/26 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 6/27/26 at 12:49 pm to The Last Coco
Its not near that bad. It'll slow down when the river is chocolate milk but the river will clear up and come out of flood stage in 2-3 days.
We've had a lot of rain in the Ozarks this spring and you can see it recovers quicker than you think. USGS Gauge
There's some walleye in there too. That's my favorite freshwater fish to keep
We've had a lot of rain in the Ozarks this spring and you can see it recovers quicker than you think. USGS Gauge
There's some walleye in there too. That's my favorite freshwater fish to keep
Posted on 6/27/26 at 5:29 pm to The Last Coco
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Where would the OB go?
I'd do the ocklawaha, but I'm starting much, much closer to there than you are
go out and see some real Florida, not that mouse shite.
Posted on 6/28/26 at 12:44 am to The Last Coco
Read Ernest Herndon’s book on paddling the Pascagoula.
Posted on 6/28/26 at 5:40 am to The Last Coco
Check out freshwater striper fishing. I'd go look at virginia/tennessee/georgia/NC......
They get huge and are a ton of fun to target.
They get huge and are a ton of fun to target.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 7:55 am to The Last Coco
I'd second the Coosa River in AL and add the Flint River in GA.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 9:25 am to EagleEye99
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Coosa River in AL and add the Flint River in GA.
We did 3 days on the Cahaba last year. That river is gorgeous. I'm sure Coosa and Flint are too.
The wet weather in the Southeast makes me very leery to make a long range plan for a river fishing trip in this part of the country.
Devils River and Pecos are dry enough that I feel like they're safe. I would be pretty bummed if we had a trip of this significance rained out.
But admittedly, I am used to how rain affects sandy/silty rivers in the coastal plain region, not how it impacts rocky rivers further inland. So maybe I am fretting about nothing,
Posted on 6/29/26 at 9:58 am to The Last Coco
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We did 3 days on the Cahaba last year. That river is gorgeous. I'm sure Coosa and Flint are too.
The wet weather in the Southeast makes me very leery to make a long range plan for a river fishing trip in this part of the country.
Devils River and Pecos are dry enough that I feel like they're safe. I would be pretty bummed if we had a trip of this significance rained out.
But admittedly, I am used to how rain affects sandy/silty rivers in the coastal plain region, not how it impacts rocky rivers further inland. So maybe I am fretting about nothing,
Yes, the Cahaba is awesome and I get it about wet weather in SE. I want to float the Flint from Newton down to Bainbridge and set up at Rocky Bend FR Retreat in Newton. Plenty of spots to go put in and fish all over Lake Seminole as well if you wanted to do that. I have fished Seminole a bunch over the years, but never took the Yak to float the Flint for shoal bass.
ETA: also if weather muddied you out on the Flint, you could easily go to Spring Creek on Seminole as it always clear due to fresh water springs and all the vegetation to filter water. In a kayak, I could spend a month based out of Big Jim’s and not touch a fraction of it.
This post was edited on 6/29/26 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 6/30/26 at 8:55 pm to EagleEye99
I'm going to piggy back on this post, I've got a conference in San Antonio at the end of August. Is there a one day guided float trip around the area? Or is that even a thing?
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 6/30/26 at 11:38 pm to burgeman
Junction and the S Llano River are about 1.5hr away depending on where exactly youll be in SA.
Theres a kayak rental service you can hit up:
Bloody Bucket Kayaks and Canoes
Theres a kayak rental service you can hit up:
Bloody Bucket Kayaks and Canoes
Posted on 7/1/26 at 9:54 am to MoarKilometers
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I'd do the ocklawaha,
We catch some monsters here.
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