The Arkansas River ambles through my part of the world and I can hardly go anywhere in my part of the state without crossing it three or four times. As rivers go, the Arkansas has a lot of faces as it drains the mountains in Colorado and then runs through Kansas, Oklahoma, and finally makes it to Arkansas. Where it comes through Tulsa out of Keystone Dam (built to trap sediment from reaching and silting up the navigation channel downstream) its a big wide river basin with not much moving water in it for much of the year. Holes and shoals and lots of sand. The city has debated for years whether or not to build some low water dams so the river would actually run all the time and hold more water where it comes through town.

It a pretty diverse fishery too. There's some monster stripers where there's water, along with huge catfish. Now it looks like there's sturgeon too.

BKB

http://www.newson6.com/story/2514829...arkansas-river