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Diamond Dave Goudy visits Bill Goudy and the Mississippi River and lands a few channel catfish near Nauvoo, ILLinois!
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Mud Boating on the Mississippi River in LaCrosse Wisconsin.
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From Tom Lee Park in Memphis, this is a video of the Mighty Mississippi River, the Interstate 40 Bridge, Arkansas shoreline and the Memphis skyline including the Great American Pyramid.Watch closely to see Elvis!
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Dredging the Mississippi River. Photos from my Mothers Album.
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It is kind of a gloomy, overcast March day for a drive along the Hennepin Canal and spots along the Rock River in Henry and Rock Island counties to check out current fishing conditions. I’ve fished the Hennepin Canal and the Rock and Mississippi rivers since I was a small boy. These waters are home to largemouth / smallmouth bass, white bass, walleye, sauger, bluegill, crappie, catfish, carp, skipjack, as well as many other species of freshwater fishes. The length of the Hennepin Canal is now a state park and maintained by the State of Illinois Dept. of Conservation.
History
The Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, also just called the Hennepin Canal, is an abandoned waterway in northwest Illinois, between the Mississippi River at Rock Island and the Illinois River near Hennepin. The entire canal is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Opened in 1907, the canal was soon abandoned because of railroad competition. It was resurrected in the late 20th century as a recreational waterway. Its former name was the Illinois and Mississippi Canal. The main canal length is 75.2 miles (121.0 km), and its feeder canal is 29.3 miles (47.2 km) long.[2] The state park spans five counties (Rock Island, Bureau, Henry, Lee and Whiteside) and is 104.5 miles (168.2 km) long
The Hennepin canal was first conceived in 1834 as a connection between the Illinois and Mississippi River, but financial problems in the state delayed many public works projects. Pressure for transportation that was cheaper than rail convinced Congress to authorize preliminary surveys on the project in 1871. Construction began in 1892 and the first boat went through in 1907, reducing the distance from Chicago to Rock Island by 419 miles (674 km). While the canal was under construction, however, the Corps of Engineers undertook a widening of the locks on both the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. The new locks on those rivers were twenty and forty feet wider than the canal locks, making them obsolete before their initial use.
In the 1930s the Hennepin Canal was used primarily for recreational traffic. The Hennepin Canal, which at one time was known as the Illinois and Mississippi Canal, was open to boat traffic until 1951 at no cost. Ice made from the canal’s frozen waters was sold during the winters to help pay the canal’s maintenance costs.
The Hennepin was the first American canal built of concrete without stone cut facings. Although the Hennepin enjoyed only limited success as a waterway, engineering innovations used in its construction were a bonus to the construction industry. The canal was used as a training ground for engineers that later worked on the Panama Canal.[2] Both the Hennepin and Panama Canals used concrete lock chambers and both used a feeder canal from a man made lake to water the canals because both needed water to flow ‘uphill.’
There are 33 locks on the canal. All are now visible, but the first one, on the Illinois River, had been under water from the 1930s until recent times. Lock #1 is only accessible on foot during the winter months; thick vegetation, the lack of a maintained towpath, and nearby private property prevent access during the summer.
Fourteen of the locks had Marshall gates, which are unique to the Hennepin, and were raised and lowered on a horizontal axis. Five of the locks have been restored to working condition, although they are not used. One of these is a Marshall Gate lock. All of the gates from the remaining locks have been replaced with concrete walls, creating a series of waterfalls.
The Hennepin originally had nine aqueducts — concrete troughs which carried the canal and its traffic across larger rivers and streams. Six of the aqueducts remain while the other three were replaced by pipes that carry the flow under the creek or river which the canal crossed.
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Three to four hundred miles farther down the Mississippi, we begin to uncover the soul of “Man River.” It’s called the Mississippi Delta, and it’s where fields of corn and soybeans give way to rice and cotton, crawdads and catfish. Visit http://tinyurl.com/6fessw to watch the entire episode 210.
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catfish huge river fish fishing at river on the mississippi in st paul minnesota.
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Some of the smiles that come out of my boat over the last few years.
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