Submit a New Trip| State | Missouri |
| River | Jacks Fork River |
| Date | Friday 5 June 2020 |
| Related | Four (4) related trips, totalling 32.5 miles: Jacks Fork River (MO) Trip On Tuesday 2 June 2020 Jacks Fork River (MO) Trip On Wednesday 3 June 2020 Jacks Fork River (MO) Trip On Thursday 4 June 2020 Jacks Fork River (MO) Trip On Friday 5 June 2020 (this trip) |
| Start | Allen Branch (Below / downstream) |
| End | Alley Spring |
| Distance | 4.7 miles |
 Crew |  Bartlett, Stephanie Edmond, Brian Van Someren, Tom |
| Condition | Good - Conditions are ideal for a canoe or kayak. Boats typically will drag on fewer than one-quarter of riffles, if at all, and portages are unnecessary or rare. Normal float lengths can be attempted without a problem. |
 Notes | We had more rain this morning but it wasn't the deluge we'd had before. We didn't get an early start since we only had a few miles to go. This day was marked by two significant snake sightings. The first was a erythristic common watersnake, which was neat enough. When I posted this on Facebook later, someone else posted the same colored snake from a different observer. It turns out it was the exact same snake, verified because it was basking on the exact same log. Less than a mile away, Stephanie and I were looking at some flowering shrubs halfway up a bluff. We paddled over to get a better look, not paying attention to the rocks below. Without realizing it, I had paddled Stephanie to within a foot of a basking cottonmouth. Had it been inclined, it could have tagged her hand, which was resting on the side of the canoe. Luckily, it was merely annoyed at our presence. The water flow was fine through this section but the river widened and flattened quite a bit as well. We agreed that the section below Bay Creek just wasn't as scenic and desirable as the upper sections of the river. |
| Fishing | Poor - 0 - 2 fish caught |
 Species | Rock Bass / Goggle Eye Smallmouth Bass |
 Gauge | Alley Spring (07065495) |
| Discharge | 421 |
| Height | 3.38 |
| Status | Verified |
| Links | (none) |
| Photos | (none) |
| Route |  KML |
| River Information | Duck Duck Go Search National Park Service Missouri Canoe and Floater's Association A Paddler's Guide to Missouri A Float Trip Blog from the Midwest Ozark Adventures KML |
 Source | Brian Edmond |
| Trip ID | 348 |
| Expedition ID | 280 |
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