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Amite River

Waterway

The sandbar river east of Baton Rouge, running down out of Mississippi through Denham Springs to Lake Maurepas with clear water, gravel…

Big Black River

Waterway

A winding sandbar river cutting across west central Mississippi from the hill country to the Mississippi below Vicksburg, with sandbars, log jams…

Congaree River

Waterway

Formed where the Broad and Saluda meet in downtown Columbia, a wide shoal-and-sandbar river running past Congaree National Park with striped bass…

Potomac River

Waterway

The upper Potomac above Washington, a wide, shallow, ledge-and-grass river that is one of the great smallmouth bass fisheries on the East…

Tippecanoe River

Waterway

One of the most biologically diverse rivers in the Midwest, a clear lake-fed smallmouth stream running from the Barbee chain down past…

Neosho River

Waterway

Southeast Kansas catfish water, running from the Flint Hills down past Iola, Chanute and Parsons toward Oklahoma, with rock riffles, deep bends…

Illinois River

Waterway

Oklahoma designated Scenic River, a clear Ozark-plateau smallmouth stream running out of Arkansas past Tahlequah to Lake Tenkiller, with a trout tailwater…

Platte River

Waterway

A mile wide and a foot deep, the old joke goes, but the lower Platte below the Elkhorn is a serious catfish,…

Niobrara River

Waterway

A National Scenic River across the Sandhills, spring-fed and waterfall-lined through the Valentine reach, then a wide braided catfish and sturgeon river…

Kansas River

Waterway

The Kaw, a wide sand-bottomed prairie river running one hundred and seventy miles from Junction City through Topeka and Lawrence to the…