I would literally pay you to take me on a rip through a river. I love living in the Ozarks. The rivers and lakes and streams here are fantastic. Even Lake of the Ozarks has its own charm.
Wow! I’ve floated and played in that river many many times! In fact I probably floated just about every river in southern Missouri. I’ve done the Current, Jacks Fork, the White, the Huzzah, Gasconade, Meramac and others I can’t remember. Watching this brings back a lot of good memories!
@@DennisBohannan That’s fantastic! Most of the rivers in southern Missouri are spring fed. They are a true gem and thanks for providing such wonderful content about our state. You can take me along anytime! Lol!
It’s amazing how little boat dealers know about setting up a new complete new boat where it will run in skinny water.Many are actually dragging water.Thank you for all your input.I notice you’re not a fan of adding pods and I can see why as they make steering in these creeks difficult.Keep em coming.Pucker Time!!
Yeah I saw the Legion. They are using a green anodized 1652 as their Showboat. I loved it. I like the fuel tank saddle box except I’d rather it just be a built in tank with a baffle. I can make a boat way expensive fast! Also the Legion had a tandem aluminum trailer. I like the tandem idea for those sketchy launches. Up in British Columbia we pulled up to a guardrail and lowered our 18’ drift boat down vertical rip rap for 95 feet. The shot of line I had was just 100’. I hosted 13 trips to Bella Coola River in B. C. Biggest wild Steelhead in the world and plenty of them and no people.
I see you have skills! I’m a fellow Jet Boat Jockey. I started on the whitewater of Oregon. Set up Central Coast Guide Service and got my Coast Guard License in ‘83. Soon took the whole show to Alaska and set up a Fly-In Wilderness camp with 4 Jet Boats. What a blast. I’m thrilled to see you in Missouri. I grew up on those rivers and now I’m 67 and moving back there to retire. Wanting to buy a new Jet Boat for those Smallmouth Bass rivers. Thrilled to see you cutting the ice. Great Job!!
@@DennisBohannan Black River Boats, copy that and thanks for the heads up. I was looking at a SeaArk 18 x 72” tunnel hull with 115/80 Tiller jet. Diamond plate floor. Cut out styrofoam and put in hatch box lids all over. I did all this on a 20’ SeaArk in Alaska and it worked well. Used for fishing King Salmon and hunting Caribou and Yukon Moose. My last Bull was 62 1/2” spread. Wish I could send pics. Thanks again for the heads up. What boat were you running on your Missouri Videos? It is a 16’ ? With a 60/40 Merc?
@marksehl2713 yes on my rig. Custom made here in Texas. Been great for what I need out of a boat. I mostly catfish setting lines. Texas just made it illegal to hunt out of river bed basically.
So Dennis, those Missouri rivers, do you feel an 18’ x 72” is too big for those rivers? I grew up there in my early teens but didn’t have my first jet boat till I moved to Oregon. That was a 22’ Koffler with a 200 Hp Yamaha. Bigger water for sure. But if I need to scale back to 16’ or 17’ that’s no problem. Judging by your river read/run skills you’ve got it dialed in and you operate at a high skill level. I could feel myself sliding powered up thru the turns. Looked like great fun. Can’t wait to get there. Waiting on my house to sell so we can move.
@marksehl2713 Well, as you know, the river there are all sizes. But in my OPINION, that is too big to really explore. Also, many of the rivers have HP restrictions. That is something to look into before purchasing.
I was born and raised on that lake and river and that marina you unloaded by is owned by my wife's mom and dad Cool as hell you made it this far up. I have been watching your videos for awhile i now and i love them all.
I built UHMW blocks and welded tabs on gunnel then bolted for oar locks. I use 10’ Cataract Oars and row. Mikes of drifting and rowing. It is silent. Gotten 15-20 yards of Brown Bears, Lynx, Moose. Silent drifting. It’s great way to hunt. 50 mile run up river from launch into wilderness. Set up camp. Wife never asks when will I be home. She knows I’ll be home when we have a Bull.
I’m from southeast MO, you picked a beautiful area to run the river. You have a great setup- I have a 19’ boat with a 150 jet, that water is too skinny for me! Depending on the time of year I don’t go up much further than where you started out. If you come back again, go to Lake Wappapello and put in at the Greenville Bridge and run the St. Francis north.
I put in at k, can run down to Clearwater lake, fuel up and head back to K state park for camping. Makes for a beautiful afternoon ride. Running the middle fork, you had to turn around at county road 358 access from blacktop highway 49. Nice driving.
Something to try. Get you some graphite paint Tractor Supply sells some called EZ Slide. Coated my hull from mid rib to mid rib then sand lightly with 200+. Pretty durable made to slide things on, wares a little on the ribs but not to bad. Nice graphite color also, my 16x48 w/40 slides itself off the gravel and much easier to push/winch from trailer. Like having a permanent coat of wax on the hull, nice and slick.
Black River around Lesterville is a float trip hot spot. Clean and clear shallow waters. Probably stay out of that one in the heat of summer / float trip season.
@DennisBohannan up near Lacrosse wisconsin. Miles and miles of small sandy rivers feeding into the upper Mississippi. Not sure of the best way to contact you outside YT comments.
@@DennisBohannan Reason I asked , here in coastal NC we have a Black R. 30 min away. It like most rivers here is coffee colored. If you were to get in and look up the water is yellowish but surprisingly clear. It's lined with Cypress some 2000 years old. Very different than your water but both beautiful. I'd run my Triton aluminum bass style boat with 90 Yamaha on the Black but stout tree branches hang cat lines and hooks. Big bluegills we call bream red ears , shellcracker and long eared sunfish locally known as red bream. Very pretty but big flat head cats have dined on.most. Thanks
Have you had this rig in rough water like a lake?? I live in south texas on the coast and have a gatortail, but these sand bars and reef eat up these props.
Far as jet part of ot goes it have no problem. In rough water, I just trimmed down and ran a little slower. Wide open and trimmed up it will cavitate in chop. Flat bottoms well are flat bottom.
Lol when I was fishing on the Big Piney river in Missouri I lost power as I was coming back down the river right in a area where I had to snake threw downed trees in the rapids and my boat want up the side of a downed tree and the back corner of my river boat started taking on water and that was all she wrote lol. I just started throwing my fishing gear up on the shore and watch the rest of my boat go under water. I saved the boat later with the help of some friends that where in a boat in front of me.
@DennisBohannan great job, next you gotta run the Gasconade or Meremac, some amazing scenery, but the black is always great. Definitely got a subscriber here.
@@DennisBohannan that’s sick I need a jet lol I’m just getting into it , I love fishing the current and all those pretty rivers but idk if my new jon would work it’s flat like yours but like I said it’s gotta outboard, do you think the trolling would work or if it’d be simply too shallow
@Dhejehehehhe I feel like there are sections on the current river you could get by with it. On the black it's to shallow. Always head up from where you launch and you will be fine.
@@DennisBohannan thank you you earned a sub lol would you recommend any sections below round springs there’s a limit on hp above that( 18 for outboard , I gotta 25) or would u just troll
I ran the Gasconade with my Wooldridge 17. Was a blast. Went to visit family and bought the boat from eastern Pa. Ran around Lake of the Ozarks as well but we were a little small for that. Cheers
You're right in my back yard. The Smallmouth fishing is EPIC❤
I just did a float on the black river small mouth fishinf was awesome landed 4 fish and lots of bites
I would literally pay you to take me on a rip through a river. I love living in the Ozarks. The rivers and lakes and streams here are fantastic. Even Lake of the Ozarks has its own charm.
Be up there in a few weeks. Tough to make time being so far from home.
Wow! I’ve floated and played in that river many many times! In fact I probably floated just about every river in southern Missouri. I’ve done the Current, Jacks Fork, the White, the Huzzah, Gasconade, Meramac and others I can’t remember. Watching this brings back a lot of good memories!
It is a beautiful place. I usually come up twice a year.
@@DennisBohannan That’s fantastic! Most of the rivers in southern Missouri are spring fed. They are a true gem and thanks for providing such wonderful content about our state. You can take me along anytime! Lol!
It’s amazing how little boat dealers know about setting up a new complete new boat where it will run in skinny water.Many are actually dragging water.Thank you for all your input.I notice you’re not a fan of adding pods and I can see why as they make steering in these creeks difficult.Keep em coming.Pucker Time!!
i have lived in missouri my whole life.. and never have i ever got the chance to ride in a jet boat on the river, boy that must be fun!
Missing out. Greatest place in the country for it.
@@DennisBohannan to broke to be able to afford my own boat, and dont know anybody willing to take a stranger haha
Yeah I saw the Legion. They are using a green anodized 1652 as their Showboat. I loved it. I like the fuel tank saddle box except I’d rather it just be a built in tank with a baffle. I can make a boat way expensive fast! Also the Legion had a tandem aluminum trailer. I like the tandem idea for those sketchy launches. Up in British Columbia we pulled up to a guardrail and lowered our 18’ drift boat down vertical rip rap for 95 feet. The shot of line I had was just 100’.
I hosted 13 trips to Bella Coola River in B. C. Biggest wild Steelhead in the world and plenty of them and no people.
Great video and you are a great driver and read the water well thanks from Canada.
Some serious good boat driving man!!! Be careful out there all by yourself. You having a blast on that beautiful water!!
You’re where I grew up I’ve walked that River dozens of times. Amazing small mouth fishing
unless some idiot is flying up and down it with a powered motor...
All those floaters peeing and splashing in the water. The fish love watching boats go by.
@@DennisBohannan you're trash...own it
I see you have skills! I’m a fellow Jet Boat Jockey. I started on the whitewater of Oregon. Set up Central Coast Guide Service and got my Coast Guard License in ‘83. Soon took the whole show to Alaska and set up a Fly-In Wilderness camp with 4 Jet Boats. What a blast.
I’m thrilled to see you in Missouri. I grew up on those rivers and now I’m 67 and moving back there to retire. Wanting to buy a new Jet Boat for those Smallmouth Bass rivers. Thrilled to see you cutting the ice. Great Job!!
What a story. I go up to Missouri about once a year.
When you get down there check out Black river boats in Poplar Bluff for you custom build.
@@DennisBohannan Black River Boats, copy that and thanks for the heads up. I was looking at a SeaArk 18 x 72” tunnel hull with 115/80 Tiller jet. Diamond plate floor. Cut out styrofoam and put in hatch box lids all over. I did all this on a 20’ SeaArk in Alaska and it worked well. Used for fishing King Salmon and hunting Caribou and Yukon Moose. My last Bull was 62 1/2” spread. Wish I could send pics. Thanks again for the heads up. What boat were you running on your Missouri Videos? It is a 16’ ? With a 60/40 Merc?
@marksehl2713 yes on my rig. Custom made here in Texas. Been great for what I need out of a boat. I mostly catfish setting lines. Texas just made it illegal to hunt out of river bed basically.
So Dennis, those Missouri rivers, do you feel an 18’ x 72” is too big for those rivers? I grew up there in my early teens but didn’t have my first jet boat till I moved to Oregon. That was a 22’ Koffler with a 200 Hp Yamaha. Bigger water for sure. But if I need to scale back to 16’ or 17’ that’s no problem. Judging by your river read/run skills you’ve got it dialed in and you operate at a high skill level. I could feel myself sliding powered up thru the turns. Looked like great fun. Can’t wait to get there. Waiting on my house to sell so we can move.
@marksehl2713 Well, as you know, the river there are all sizes. But in my OPINION, that is too big to really explore. Also, many of the rivers have HP restrictions. That is something to look into before purchasing.
Your videos got me looking for boat like that in PA. There aren’t many. Keep them coming!
Same
Good luck brother from just south of ya n Dub V
I was born and raised on that lake and river and that marina you unloaded by is owned by my wife's mom and dad Cool as hell you made it this far up. I have been watching your videos for awhile i now and i love them all.
Wonderful place. I will be back at some point.
Good video. I think I'll run that in mine, I'm in laclede County Missouri
It is a blast
“This is fun”….its fun to watch bro SEND IT.
That looks so damn fun! And smooth! Theres nothing like running shallow in a clear river!
I built UHMW blocks and welded tabs on gunnel then bolted for oar locks. I use 10’ Cataract Oars and row. Mikes of drifting and rowing. It is silent. Gotten 15-20 yards of Brown Bears, Lynx, Moose. Silent drifting. It’s great way to hunt. 50 mile run up river from launch into wilderness. Set up camp. Wife never asks when will I be home. She knows I’ll be home when we have a Bull.
Wow this perspective / camera view during the boat ride was awesome!
Beautiful river. Love all the sandbars. Hopping for some flooding on the Lower Colorado to clear some of the sandbars there.
Headed your way Saturday. Group of us riding from Columbus up towards Smithville
I’m constantly ducking while your flying thru all that mess😂
I’m from southeast MO, you picked a beautiful area to run the river. You have a great setup- I have a 19’ boat with a 150 jet, that water is too skinny for me! Depending on the time of year I don’t go up much further than where you started out. If you come back again, go to Lake Wappapello and put in at the Greenville Bridge and run the St. Francis north.
Yes, I love this stretch of river. Wish it were in my back yard.
Excuse me, I think you got my cot 13:50...O'yea you brought mine home. Holy cow how could I forget that.....Nice runs 👍
I slept on a wet cot and damp covers
I put in at k, can run down to Clearwater lake, fuel up and head back to K state park for camping. Makes for a beautiful afternoon ride.
Running the middle fork, you had to turn around at county road 358 access from blacktop highway 49.
Nice driving.
Man that was a great video! Great commentary & engine sound. Very cool stuff
Thank you very much!
Very enjoyable to watch.
I have a 21 ft fiberglass river boat with a jet and I’ve run through some sketchy stuff, but this is a different level.
New video coming tonight of my local river here in Texas. It really rough.
Would not touch any of these ozark rivers with a fiberglass
Something to try.
Get you some graphite paint Tractor Supply sells some called EZ Slide.
Coated my hull from mid rib to mid rib then sand lightly with 200+. Pretty durable made to slide things on, wares a little on the ribs but not to bad.
Nice graphite color also, my 16x48 w/40 slides itself off the gravel and much easier to push/winch from trailer.
Like having a permanent coat of wax on the hull, nice and slick.
You have to do that trip in May with all of the rain and flooding. You will be able to go a lot further.
Man......what a boat ride!
❤❤❤love the vibes
That motor is awesome i need one bad
Beautiful
Great job Dennis
Best river cruise Iv seen in a long while yeye! See you in it soon
Thanks
Wish the rivers around me in pa were that nice
You and me both. Over 8 hours from my house.
Should have smallmouth fished in the area you camped at. The log jambs are stacked with fish along the banks.
That looks fun ☺️
Was dying seeing all of those clear blue pools you didnt fish!
That bridge is at Lesterville with the culvert pipes under it.
Correct
That's some driving!
Awesome 🛶 🐻 ⛺️ 🎣
We used to do that in jeeps back in the day
You were near reed springs when you stopped that was pretty amazing trip
Black River around Lesterville is a float trip hot spot. Clean and clear shallow waters. Probably stay out of that one in the heat of summer / float trip season.
Agree. I went during the week, and in a storm, you can see on part 1. River all to myself.
@dennisbohannan if you ever want to come up here to the coulee region id be more than happy to show ya around. Its mud boat country but jets do great!
Where is that more specifically?
@DennisBohannan up near Lacrosse wisconsin. Miles and miles of small sandy rivers feeding into the upper Mississippi. Not sure of the best way to contact you outside YT comments.
Whats the lever you pull on floor bottom? Is it for clearing rocks from grate?
Yes. Called the rock ejector. Great tool to have. Search my channel for more info or find his website.
Ah.. a kayaker's worst nightmare..
Why I always come up during the week.
Home sweet home. Do in it like a pro
Just made that trip 2 weeks ago love it
Yeah, absolute blast.
@@DennisBohannan I have a 1852 blazer with a 175 on it makes it tough in the tight spots
Wish I had a smaller boat some days
@dwilsonfarms6541 yeah. Big boat for that stretch
Liking the longer video
Thanks. Believe it or not they are easier to make.
Great video
THANKS
I'm curious, why is it or are they called Black R?
That looked to be a relaxing ride. They don't tie up limb lines huh?
Very good question. Further south in Arkansas, it turns into a muddy river and runs into the white river.
@@DennisBohannan Reason I asked , here in coastal NC we have a Black R. 30 min away. It like most rivers here is coffee colored. If you were to get in and look up the water is yellowish but surprisingly clear. It's lined with Cypress some 2000 years old. Very different than your water but both beautiful. I'd run my Triton aluminum bass style boat with 90 Yamaha on the Black but stout tree branches hang cat lines and hooks. Big bluegills we call bream
red ears , shellcracker and long eared sunfish locally known as red bream. Very pretty but big flat head cats have dined on.most.
Thanks
Need to come try Big Piney & upper James river, MO. Skinny and fast
I ran the James River up out of table rock, maybe 40 miles. That probably consider lower james though.
@@DennisBohannan nice, what put in did you make it to?
You should try the Osage fork of the gasconade, I run it on my 1742 with a 25 Johnson
I will try one of these days
Looks like fun. Do you use that set-up to fish?
Yes setup specifically for running line in a river for catfish. Should have a video coming soon catching some fish.
Big motor and boat for such shallow water
Have you had this rig in rough water like a lake?? I live in south texas on the coast and have a gatortail, but these sand bars and reef eat up these props.
Far as jet part of ot goes it have no problem. In rough water, I just trimmed down and ran a little slower. Wide open and trimmed up it will cavitate in chop.
Flat bottoms well are flat bottom.
I go on at least one float down the black river every year in lesterville and there has not been one time it didn’t rain
Scoootinnnnn!!!
Lol when I was fishing on the Big Piney river in Missouri I lost power as I was coming back down the river right in a area where I had to snake threw downed trees in the rapids and my boat want up the side of a downed tree and the back corner of my river boat started taking on water and that was all she wrote lol. I just started throwing my fishing gear up on the shore and watch the rest of my boat go under water. I saved the boat later with the help of some friends that where in a boat in front of me.
Going downstream is always the toughest.
Is that a tunnel jet? Noticed you barely bumped, good driving. Getting ready to. Uild myself a small jet to do exactly this.
No tunnel.
@DennisBohannan great job, next you gotta run the Gasconade or Meremac, some amazing scenery, but the black is always great. Definitely got a subscriber here.
@lenwhiteside on my list to get to. Missouri border is 7 hours away. Never enough time.
how wide is your boat? i love it! sounds amazing!
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Nice
Wondering what that leaver that you jerked back and fourth on in the back of your boat does? You commented ya its clean now .
Rocky ejector. Built right there in Missouri. www.outboardjetrockejector.com/
Never go both ways
U should try the eleven point river in arkansas
I was going to camp there one night, but went in a different direction.
What length boat and motor are you using I’m assuming 12 foot jet , trying to find somewhere to go in mo with my 16 ft Johnson 25 prop
Search 1652 kaz kustom. I have full video of it. This is a 16 foot with 40 jet
@@DennisBohannan that’s sick I need a jet lol I’m just getting into it , I love fishing the current and all those pretty rivers but idk if my new jon would work it’s flat like yours but like I said it’s gotta outboard, do you think the trolling would work or if it’d be simply too shallow
@Dhejehehehhe I feel like there are sections on the current river you could get by with it. On the black it's to shallow. Always head up from where you launch and you will be fine.
@@DennisBohannan thank you you earned a sub lol would you recommend any sections below round springs there’s a limit on hp above that( 18 for outboard , I gotta 25) or would u just troll
I'm not from around there so can't really say. I definitely would ignore the hp restrictions.
where did u buy your boat
KAZ KUSTOM
On Temu 😂😂
Working night shift and got nothing to do, love it
Thanks
how do you keep your lower unit from being ripped off?
It has a jet pump. Nothing below the boat
i have a 60/40 mercury as well, can’t run near as shallow. what’s the trick?
Keep it light. Have motor set correct and keep it trimmed as much as it will allow.
How shallow will it run?
Come run the gasconade or little piney in Mo
Would love to
I ran the Gasconade with my Wooldridge 17. Was a blast. Went to visit family and bought the boat from eastern Pa. Ran around Lake of the Ozarks as well but we were a little small for that. Cheers
Whats the boat length and width and hp
1652 and 40 merc
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You need a dog to enjoy adventures with
What boat and setup do you have there?
1652 kaz kustom. Scroll through my videos did a whole video on it. The thumb nail is boat in the woods hooked up to a flat bed samurai
What did you pump up at 5:35?
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Rock Ejector
Are you sleeping on the boat or you got a tent?
I slept on my cot just on the gravel bar. Took a tent but mosquitoes weren't out so didn't set it up.
@@DennisBohannan haha so just slept on the cot out in the open?
@@jaycevessier7554 Yup. Only dreamed once a black bear was after me.
@@DennisBohannan haha yep, that’s why I couldn’t sleep out like that. I’d have to set up my wall tent and stay the weekend
I used to be same way but just doesn't bother me anymore. Usually set up a canopy to keep dew off.
That shit looks like so much fun.
Don’t run the upper St. Francis with that boat. You’ll get killed.
Sorta sounds like a dare.
I’ll video.
Look up videos of “St. Francis River flood kayaking.”
Light bar didn’t like that jump
It did not. Me being lazy and using a self tapering screw is the blame though. Held for over 2 years.
What hp merc is that?
40
What make of boat you running
1652 Kaz Kustom
@@DennisBohannanwhat motor ?
1652
Motor?
With a Rock Ejector kit
Ain’t gone lie, this set ups the biz
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Jet boats are prohibited on that portion of Black River. Lesterville to K Bridge
No wonder I had the river to myself. I thought it was because of the thunderstorm. I do know several locals and no one said anything.
I can't find any literature on that. I was planning coming back up at end of the month.
You’re wrong
Get a front steer
Pass. Love the tiller.
Jet boats have no place on these rivers. Fishing has been destroyed by the wake
It is very rare people even run boats on this section. You just can't fish.