Recent content by Midwestjet

Been thinking about a run on the upper Gasconade in the Ft Leonard Wood area. Nephew is stationed there and am wanting to go spend a day. Anyone put in at the Riddle Bridge ramp? Anything you can pass along much appreciated. Looking at Google Earth looks like some decent running. I have a...

Hey Roost...sounds like a neat project. When I was looking into a Sport Jon sled 4 years ago I followed the blogs out west where they were developing the design for a light draft heavy hauler for moose hunters. The early boats tried the 200, 240 and 250 Merc Opti Sportjets and after a lot of...

"Pinched into a pyramid"...now that's funny, right there! Yeah, I gotta admit when I got back on the trailer I crawled underneath holding my breath that I didn't re-arrange the intake grate...outside of a few scratches on the UHMW it did great. A buddy followed me that day with his Blazer boat...

Here is a video shot on the Sangamon River...we put in at Riverside Park in Springfield and ran up to Buckhart Bridge where a humungous log jam turned us back. The Sangamon is a good river to run and has great catfishing but watch for logs...there is a lot of dead wood in the channel! The day...

Hello there...new to the site and enjoying the posts. We run the SE Missouri and Northern Arkansas rivers. We've run the Black above Clearwater Lake in Missouri and the Spring and Strawberry Rivers in Arkansas. Also made several runs in Central Illinois on the Sangamon and Illinois Rivers. Enjoy...