Jacks Fork

Jacks Fork river is roughly 180 miles south of St. Louis.  It begins near Mountainview, MO and empties into the Current River 45 miles downstream not far from the town of Eminence.   I, Al Harper, joined a group of smallmouth bass anglers for two days of floating and fishing on 5/16/25.  Conditions … Read More

Missouri is part of an historic cicada emergence going on this month (May 2024), in which two major broods numbering more than a trillion bugs are involved. I, Al Harper, had some success with fish feeding on cicadas that I thought I’d share in this trip report.  Not since 1803 have … Read More