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Mississippi River Dream Trip!

PierBridge

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Gordie Grand Master

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It funny how things happen.... last night one of the kids that work for me asked a question and it went something like this.. Lets say you had a lifetime supply of food. you know alot. I was wondering where is was going with this.

How long do you think it would take to float the Mississippi to the ocean . Then another guy told him that there was Gar and gators down south and he said that he was to scared now so forget it.

I'll have to print this off and have him read it to satisfy his curiousity

Thanks PB for posting this..

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Met a guy from down south someplace when i was up in st cloud him and a group were kayaking the whole mississippi from the mouth all the way to the gulf, he was like 3 weeks in when i talked to him at the dam in st cloud so he had a heck of a trip in front of him

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has anybody been able to find the thread he was talking about in the story on that bass fishing forum? he said he was giving daily updates on there or at least whenever he could. id love to be able to read that thread.

gator bait is right. definitely need to give this guy a lot of credit. he definitely inspired me to want to do something like this someday

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Hopefully they don't wipe this link but there was a show on National Geographic channel about a film maker, a scientist and a pro fisherman that started at the headwaters and went to mile marker 0 in the gulf called "Mississippi river quest". Looks like you can see the full episodes right from there as well.

EDIT: I just checked and you have to pay for the episodes from Itunes frown

Very cool idea and it was well done. The scientist was doing some really stupid stuff in the Minneapolis to Memphis episode.

http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/mississippi-river-quest/305190

If they pull the link, do a search for it and find the tv guide link. Should be the 4th one down or so.

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so i went to the HSOforum stated in his journal, that is one screwed up forum, i found a bunck of posts by Dave krantz, his screen name is beartrap. I did a bunch of searches and never found anything but the same link that got all of us wanting to read more. Their HSOforum is not organized in threads like this one. Maybe we start an email campiagn, everyone sends two or three emails to espn requesting the rest of the story, they should post it then. I want to read this story, and now i wanna do this trip. I wonder how much money it would cost? My guess is like 5 or 6 grand easy, and thats not counting the boat or motor.

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PierBridge Grand Master

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Day 1,2,3 and 4 updates here...

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/news/story?id=5377013

Day 4 update!

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/news/story?id=5380275

Lock 13 is undergoing repairs today and will re-open tomorrow, so I've got a day to recharge my batteries.

I could not have picked a better place than L&M Motel. Lois the owner had told me the evening before that she had some errands to run and she'd be glad to take me by the marina and any other place I needed to go.

I still can't sleep over 6-7 hours even though I'm tired, just too much to worry about. My latest worry is how much towboat traffic will be backed up by the lock repairs, am I going to get to St Louis by the time Mike gets there.

And I'm seeing that the river at St. Louis is nearing flood stage. Will they close the river to pleasure boat traffic? Seems I can always find something to worry about.

Mid-morning I see Lois outside and tell her I'm ready anytime she is. In a few minutes, we get in her really nice Ford pickup. We stop at convenience store and grab two bags of ice.

This time there's a young guy in the marina office and I pay him $27 for two nights mooring. Lois told me later that she knew the young man and had called him and asked him to keep an eye on my boat.

Lois tells me she has to go by a winery out in the country and it would be a chance for me to see some of the surrounding countryside. I regret not having my camera.

The area around Savanna has small, neatly kept farms with big red barns. It's peaceful, lush and green. It looks like rural America looked like 50-60 years ago, and I mean that as a compliment in every sense of the word.

Lois goes inside a little winery while I walk out on a deck overlooking a little valley with pastures and cornfields. I could kick myself for not bringing my camera. You just don't get those views from the interstate.

When we get back to Savanna, it's time for lunch and we stop at little restaurant called the Kettle. I'm not real hungry and get a chef's salad and Lois got whatever it is that women eat (chicken salad or tuna fish sandwich or something similar).

I did win the battle for the check, but she gave it a good try. During lunch, she told me she was raised on a farm in this area and returned 16 years ago when her husband died. They started catering to bikers and fishermen several years ago and now have a regional reputation that brings them repeat business over and over.

She says the responsibility however is starting to wear on her and she is thinking seriously about selling the motel. Lois, if you sell this motel, please sell it to someone just like yourself. If heaven has motels, yours will be the model.

Back at motel, I take a much appreciated nap. Mid-afternoon the phone rings and Mike Nestor from the Savannah Times-Journal called and asked if he could come over and interview me about the trip (my brother had alerted him I was coming through).

Called lockmaster and he says lock will be open tomorrow and he doesn't have a lot of traffic backed up.

Mike arrives and somehow duck hunting gets mentioned. If you get two avid duck hunters together, they can't carry on a 20-word conversation without one of them mentioning ducks, even in the middle of summer.

We talk 10 minutes (maybe) about my trip and 2 hours about duck hunting, game wardens, the DNR's general mismanagement of our wildlife resources. And we both agree the tree huggers are gonna push us out of hunting and fishing.

Mike wants to take pictures of me leaving, so we agree to meet at marina at 7:30 a.m. Mike leaves and soon it's time to ask Gary to carry me back to the best restaurant in town.

It's Friday night and several bikers and wives/girlfriends are under the little carport type shelter along the curb at motel. I chat briefly with several of them and they want to know all about my trip and we discuss some of the trips they have taken.

[PoorWordUsage]'s is starting to fill up when I get there. Probably a few more bikers than others but there are families, young people, older couples, just about every age group is represented.

I notice a waitress delivering what appeared to be biggest BLT I'd ever seen, and it looked so good I had to have one. And it was good. Every last bit of it.

Back at motel, I send short description of my day to family/friends and post something similar on BFHP. Note that Day Three description of trip generated 499 viewers and progress report during the day had attracted 507 viewers.

This trip has grown far beyond my expectations. I e-mail a buddy that I had brought three hats with me and all are too small now.

Weather report for tomorrow predicts more rain and storms. So what else is new?

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Nice, more to read. I just googled "Dave Krantz river story" and got a few links but the 2nd link was as far as I got. Link 1 was days Pre-4 as already given in previous post. Link 2 was continuation of the story on ESPN only in a new article, days 5 to 9 it looks like. Wish they would have kept it together to make it easier to follow... oh well this forum thread will work wink

Happy reading. I know what I'm reading this evening now after lawn mowing.

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