ShareBy Jo Schaper
Tomorrow morning, when Michael Clark of Big Muddy Adventures, John Ruskey of Quapaw Canoe Company, David Hanson, adventure journalist, and Mark Peoples, a 1Mississippi River Guide intern, put their paddles into the Bourbeuse River at the Union, Missouri boat ramp, after having begun in Washington, MO, and [...]

SharePart of Jo’s husband’s job means he travels all over the state. He’s rarely without a camera, (and just figured out how to use the camera on his cell phone for when that happens.)
A couple weeks ago life took him to Big Lake State Park. If you usually stay on the eastern or southern [...]

ShareA few months ago, Jo attempted to give a play by play of the swollen Mississippi and southeast Missouri rivers as our region suffered. The geographic location has shifted northwestward, but the suffering is the same. Mercifully, the Missouri below Kansas City has been spared what the Nebraska-Iowa-Kansas Tri-State region is enduring. These photos and [...]

ShareThis is a followup to the report on the Missouri River 340, an annual human-powered paddlesport event which goes from Kaw Point in Kansas City the width of Missouri to the finish line in St. Charles. More background about the race can be found in yesterday’s post.
The team Easy Living, with paddlers West Hansen, of [...]

ShareOn Saturday, September 11, Missouri River Relief will be hosting a river clean-up on the Missouri River in St. Charles.  The clean-up runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m, rain or shine. Clean-up headquarters will be the Bishop’s Landing Boat Ramp next to the Lewis and Clark Boat House on the St. Charles Riverfront. Over [...]

ShareThe fifth annual Missouri River 340 paddler race, billed as the “world’s longest non-stop river race”, has been postponed to August 24 – 27, 2010, because of high water and dangerous currents along many reaches of the race course.
The race was originally scheduled to start at Kaw Point Park in Kansas City, Kan., on July [...]

ShareIf you’ve ever dipped into the plastic goldfish pond at a carnival wanting to win some fabulous prize, does MDC have a deal for you.
In its continuing effort to put catfish management on a firm scientific footing, the Missouri Department of Conservation has tagged thousands of blue and flathead catfish in lakes and streams [...]

ShareThe clear sparkling water in hotel pitchers on the Army Corps of Engineers panel table and the visitor’s refreshment sidebar was Missouri River water, very different from the flooding, muddy reality just a few miles to the west.
Approximately 70 people attended the St. Louis Missouri River Authorized Purposes Study (MRAPS) public meeting in Maryland [...]

ShareMissouri’s paddlefish snagging season likely will get off to a slow start this year, but when the action picks up, anglers will find plenty of legal
fishPaddlefish season opens March 15 and runs through April 30. Snaggers use heavy fishing rods, lead weights and oversized treble hooks to snag fish that can tip the scales at [...]

Sharereviewed by Jo Schaper
Although Traveler in no way resembles Variety, the paper which reviews Broadway shows, I thought I’d post a review of a production from Boonville, Missouri’s Turner Hall River Rats Company called Gumbo Bottoms: A Big Muddy Musical which I saw in Washington, Mo. over last weekend. If you’ve ever slogged in a [...]