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Post-Dispatch fishing report for June 17-June 23

Baldwin : Largemouth bass fair using plastics and crankbaits; bluegill fair using wax worms and minnows along the shore; catfish slow to fair using cut bait and dip baits; crappie slow.

Busch Area: Lake 33: Water temperature is 78 degrees, normal and dingy. Bluegill fair using worms; black bass fair using spinnerbaits and crankbaits; catfish fair using stinkbaits and chicken liver; crappie slow. Lakes 3, 4, 5, 7 and 24: Water temperature is 76 degrees, normal and dingy. Channel catfish good using stinkbaits and chicken liver; bluegill fair using worms; black bass fair using spinnerbaits and crankbaits.

Bull Shoals: East : Water temperature is 84 degrees, high and dingy. Black bass fair using soft plastics; catfish fair with limb lines. West: Water is 70-75 degrees, high and clear. Dam/Swan Creek area: Black bass good using jigs, soft plastics and nightcrawlers; white bass fair using swimming minnows; walleye fair using jerkbaits.

Beaver Creek area: Black bass good using jigs, soft plastics and nightcrawlers; walleye fair using nightcrawlers and jerkbaits; all other species slow.

Carlyle : Catfish good to excellent in the lake using nightcrawlers, crickets and leeches under a bobber at 1½-2 feet on the rocks and on trotlines using leeches and cut bait and good in the spillway using shad, shad guts, nightcrawlers, Geno's and Sonny's cheese baits; crappie fair in the lake using minnows or tube jigs and good in the spillway using tube jigs or minnows; white bass good in the lake using crankbaits over humps and good to excellent in the spillway using inline spinners, tube jigs, minnows and curly tails.

Clearwater : Water temperature is 81 degrees, high and dingy. All species slow.

Coffeen : Water is stained. Crappie fair using minnows; catfish fair using nightcrawlers; largemouth bass good; bluegill spotty.

Council Bluff: Water temperature is 80 degrees, high and dingy. Channel catfish good using crickets, worms and stinkbait at 2-3 feet; crappie fair using minnows and jigs at 3 feet; bluegill and redear sunfish fair using crickets, small jigs and small pieces of worms at 1-3 feet; largemouth bass fair using spinnerbaits and jigs at 2-3 feet; all other species slow.

Hunnewell : Water temperature is 78 degrees, normal and clear. Largemouth bass good using plastic worms; channel catfish good using chicken liver; crappie fair using Little Cleos; all other species slow.

Missouri Flooding Issues Have Roots In History | Plains Daily

BISMARCK, ND – “Nobody really knows what the Missouri River is doing to its bed or to the structures built on it,” environmental history expert Robert Schneiders told Plains Daily in an exclusive interview on the shape and nature of the Missouri River. “Those can only be realized after the flood waters subside.”

Schneiders, an academic and consultant for EcoInTheKnow , has written two books on the Missouri River and studied it for more than 20 years. He contends that today’s problems with the Missouri management can be traced all the way back to 1881, when the US government first decided to try to narrow and deepen the river in an effort to create a navigation channel from the river’s mouth, 21 miles north of St. Louis, to Kansas City.

“The Missouri is now doing what it has done naturally for centuries, meandering across the valley floor and cutting new channels for flows,” said Schneiders. “If we hadn’t pinched down the river so much and tried to hem it in, we wouldn’t be experiencing all of these problems now.”

The navigation channel for barges functioned well enough until the 1929 drought. The Hoover administration put in place a policy that deemed 6 feet the ideal channel depth, and when the dry spell lowered Kansas City levels to only 3 feet, the administration looked upstream to the Missouri’s headwaters. Fort Peck Dam was conceived and built as a repository for the mountain snow melts in order to maintain the viability of the downstream navigation channel.

In the 1930’s, with Fort Peck Dam underway, officials decided to extend the navigation channel up to Sioux City Iowa. Throughout the process of building the navigation channels, government river engineers dumped more than 8,300 pile dikes and revetments in the lower Missouri, squeezing and narrowing the river’s natural channel, significantly increasing both its depth and speed.

But when the 1930’s dry cycle ended and a 1940’s wet cycle ensued, annual flooding along the now narrowed river became problematic. High waters streaming out from the Yellowstone, Heart and Knife rivers along with other tributaries began entering the river, washing out the navigational channels. In response, the government set out to “tame the Mighty Mo.”

Between 1946-1966, the Army Corps of Engineers constructed 5 earthen dams to try to keep the river in its created space. The sole intent of dam construction in the Dakotas was to protect the threatened navigation channels and the lower river valley. When the dams were completed, the Corps declared victory, and government officials proclaimed it safe to now build and till along the banks of the Missouri.

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