Caruthersville to Memphis
737.5 Ferry Crossing to Memphis from the Bottom of Loosahatchie Bar If you are coming down the back channel of the Loosahatchie Bar and intend to make a landing in Memphis, you will have a fairly high pressure crossing that will require a combination of hard paddling and big
Caruthersville to Memphis
740-737.5 Loosahatchie Bar Loosahatchie Back Channel receives all of the water out of Redman Back Channel -- plus a much bigger flow that comes directly from the main channel of the big river. There is a plug dike at the bottom of Redman Back Channel and a lower island.
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 738.4 Mud Island Upper Boat Ramp Concrete boat ramp bottoms out around -0-MG. Foul smelly water here due to unfortunate placement of the Memphis Wastewater Treatment Plant one mile upstream. You will not want to get in the water. You may not even want to put your boat
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 739 If you’ve stayed main channel below Hickman, the obvious route is a simple southerly run into the city. You’ll find fast water encroaching river left as it gets flung outward from the top of Looshatchie Bar which is now across the river. The “M” Bridge is
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 743.5-740 Redman Point Bar Redman Point Bar is a small island with lots of character. Its back channel contains landmarks extolled by local mariners with enchanting names like “Washing Machine,” “Pebble Beach,” and “Hole in the Wall,” as described below. Its top end was almost completely blown out
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 740.6 Loosahatchie River The mouth of the Loosahatchie is a seldom visited place by canoeists or kayakers, partially because it is hidden between long dikes extending hundreds of yards from the Tennessee shore and the busy activities of Fuller Dock and Warehousing which keeps a small fleet of
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 740.6 Wolf River Known as Riviere du Loup amongst French explorers the 105-mile long Wolf River is the last of the Tennessee Rivers you’ll pass continuing on downstream into the Delta. Nonconnah Creek enters McKeller Lake Harbor, which empties into the Mississippi fifteen miles downstream. And then
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 743 Below Lower Hickman There is a large bluff of sand on a small island just below the lower dikes of Lower Hickman (near LBD 743) that would make a beautiful med-high water camp, ideal below 20MG. It’s a small location at 25MG and goes completely under around
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 744 Lower Hickman Lower Hickman is a tangle of flood-ravaged trees and medium high forest bottoms with a few tall trees that are frequently slammed by piles of driftwood. No sand anywhere at high water. Steep muddy/sandy banks littered with driftwood & river trash. Wild place. Great place
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 745 Middle Hickman Top end of Middle Hickman boasts the tallest sandy/grassy island in the area. At flood stage it’s the about the only possibility for a dry landing along all of Hickman. The vegetation has been growing thicker through the years. Mosquitoes might be thicker too
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 746 Upper Hickman Completely under at flood stage, as the water drops a beautiful mid-island sandbar opens up and grows in size with clean large grain fields of sand lumped up and bounded by lines of willows, wild grasses, flowering plants and bushes, inlets and blues holes sometimes form
Caruthersville to Memphis
LBD 749-742 Hickman Bar https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217859314001592865582.0004e422a7eddf37b2559&msa=0&ll= 35.269448,-90.084801&spn=0.173228,0.225391 http://goo.gl/maps/hYtXg Several long miles downstream of Shelby Forest, after about an hour of paddling, you will encounter the