Greenville to Vicksburg
480-474 Fitler Bend Fitler takes its name from a plantation that used to be found around the bottom end of the bend. The main channel of the river flushes vigorously around and out of Ajax (where it has been squeezed) and then erupts in a quarter-mile wide tongue of boils
Greenville to Vicksburg
Intro: Greenville to Vicksburg: Welcome to the 2013 update to the Rivergator: Paddlers Guide to the Lower Mississippi River! This section describes the big river as it flows through the Lower Delta, the last 100 miles of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, from Greenville, the Queen City of the Delta, to Vicksburg,
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 487-481 Shipland Wildlife Management Area Opposite Lake Providence and behind the Ajax archipelago canoeists and kayakers can enjoy the 3,500-acre Shipland Wildlife Management Area (WMA) which was established in 1982 on land purchased from the Nature Conservancy. This is the only WMA in the Mississippi batture lands; that
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 494-487 Baleshead/Stack Island/Ben Lamond The river opens up below Mayersville and Wilson Point Island into a virtual ocean of open water and hypnotic distances that seem to shrink even the biggest tow/barge packages into flea-sized morsels. Distances are difficult to calculate here. As you paddle downstream
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 496 Tennis Court Landing Paddlers will find Mayersville to be a suitable put-in or take-out with a few precautions. There are two ramps are located here. The older one is frequently bogged down in mud (below medium water 25GG). The new one was recently crushed by an upstream tow
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 500-495 Wilson Point Bar After getting flushed out Opossum Chute and the narrows at Corregidor, the canoeist or kayaker washes out into a gentle bend to the South at Mayersville past another Bunge elevator, a public boat ramp (Tennis Court Ramp) and a small refinery (Magnolia Resources, Inc). At
Greenville to Vicksburg
LBD 505-502 Corregidor Bar Low-lying bar with no protection until you reach its bottom end (around 502). Goes completely under around 30GG. In high water levels you can stay left bank descending all the way around Sarah’s Cut-Off before jumping back into the main channel at Opossum Chute above
Greenville to Vicksburg
Old River RBD 503 Chute of Old River Lake After passing Bunch’s Cut-Off another opening reveals itself RBD a half-mile downstream: the narrow Chute into Old River Lake. This opening is less enticing than its close neighbor at Bunch’s, but well worth the inspection if you have the
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 503.5 Bunch's Cut-Off Bunches and Old River (see below) are two oxbow lakes that curve outwards right bank descending into Louisiana like emphatic dashes scribed by an impressionist painter. Of course the creator is the Mississippi River in her endlessly transformative power of moving mud and
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 510-506 Cracraft Bar A series of sandy islands have formed around the Cracraft Lower Dikes affording beautiful campsites, picnic sites, and endless exploration at all water levels. At low water you must stay main channel of course, but you can canoe or kayak into any of the many inlets
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 512 (and up back channel) Grand Lake landing Boat Ramp Narrow public boat ramp laid over the muddy bank bottoms of Grand Lake into Matthew’s Bend. Composed of broken slabs of concrete and cramped parking. This rotted concrete ramp reaches Grand Lake even at the lowest of water
Greenville to Vicksburg
RBD 514-512 Worthington Cutoff, Matthews Bend, Grand Lake, Island 88 The river concentrates around the bottom end of Kentucky Bend and slams directly into the Arkansas shoreline opposite with such force that it tore up all the fields and almost busted the levee in 1997 and in 2011, and a