I swear I saw fish backs and dorsal fins out toward the Arky side that could have been DOLPHINS - but they had to be catfish on the surface!!!

Swimming on the surface down river.

They were ten foot long if they were an INCH....

I imagine they were going with the current so they wouldn't be WHOPPED by the stuff being washed down.

A river man told me what is on top of the water is only five percent of what's in there right now. Tree's, lumber, parts of old barns, waterlogged stuff is under the surface....


He said (and I quote):
"NOTHING ON EARTH WOULD GET ME OUT ON THAT RIVER RIGHT NOW."


MY ABOVE PIC ON THE RIGHT:
Man told me that one was making time, but they were being pulled over around Saint Louis and made to lay over because the upper river is too wild.


(the tow is in the background near the Arkansas shore. You can see three barges in front of it just behind my cab)