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After paddling past the vast collection of grain elevators and connecting conveyor belts at Farmer’s Grain Terminal RBD 442.1 the canoeist or kayaker will see a three-mile long island, the last island above Vicksburg. This is the Delta Point Bar. You can find possible campsites here if the
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The excitement is building as you round Brown’s Point. This is the last major bend of the river before you reach Vicksburg. You’ll soon be leaving the Delta. You’ll soon be seeing the bluffs. You’ll soon be quaffing beers and resupplying your depleted provisions. Maybe even
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Below Milliken Bend, the river flows through Marshal Cutoff (Sparta is on RBD). Marshall (and 15 other cutoffs) were authorized and constructed following the 1927 flood to speed flow and reduce flooding of the Mississippi River. Prior to this 1934 cutoff the river flowed east and then made a wide
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As you slide into Marshall Cut-Off, and if the water is above 25 Vicksburg Gauge you can stay right bank and cut behind Sparta Island to re-enter the river three miles downstream near Brown’s Point. In 1999, I was leading a group of high school students from Denver Colorado
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Below Willow the mile-wide channel flows south past Chotard, Eagle Lake, Tara and then starts curving eastward into Milliken Bend. Tara Island is LBD 455 with possible low or medium water camping, but you might want to camp elsewhere. The noisy Madison Parish Port is right across the channel. The
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As you paddle along past the bottom of Willow Island you will notice a large swath of forest on the Mississippi shore left bank descending that has been subjected to the worst haircut you have ever seen. It might at first appear to be a thinned forest. Or maybe a
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Well-designed concrete ramp at the edge of Chotard Lake north of Eagle Lake. Ample parking, and safe place to leave vehicle for overnights. Check in at store. Formerly private ramp now made public through 2011 acquisition by the Miss Dept of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. From April 13, 2011 Mississippi
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The Main channel runs southeasterly from Cottonwood Bar into Willow Cutoff (1934), and continues south around Willow Island, and then slides southeasterly past the Madison Parish Port at Milliken Bend towards Paw-Paw. The five mile channel between Cottonwood and Willow almost a mile wide and nearly featureless. For expediency the
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The main channel runs southwestward several miles out of Fitler and then without turning one way or the other slides in between two big sandbar towheads Arcadia Point Bar and Cottonwood Bar so smoothly and perfectly you would think it had been drawn that way on a design pad. Well,
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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 and swirls into
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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 is, the land between the Mississippi