Mississippi River to be on National Geographic

Hey all,

Check this out. Looks like a cool deal. Be very interesting to watch these episodes. Even cooler that Bassmaster Elite series angler Steven Browning is one of the 3 dudes. I know Branden spent some time talking to him and he sure seems like a cool dude.

Check it out!
Mississippi River Show coming up!

I saw that. Looked pretty interesting.100 miles in a canoe, 450 miles in a jet boat and 1800 miles on a large pontoon. Bass pro must have picked up part of the tab if they are using Tracker boats.

That looks pretty cool, I'll have to watch that!

Nice find, I'll have to try to tune in.

I never knew about the large scale replica of the river at Mud Island in Memphis. Be interesting to see if I ever make it through there. Looks pretty detailed also.

Yeah that replica does look cool.

I fisherman could learn a thing or two from that thing if it is still very accurate. :scratch:

I just had to look more into this...








But it's only a hydraulic scale model of the lower Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans. Too bad they didn't include the upper Miss.

That is very cool!

That thing is cool, but I would think with all the flooding it would become pretty inaccurate in a short time. Somebody spent a lot of time on it, wonder how they made it?

Maybe thats what them dudes where surveying the river up here for! Gonna make a topo map of the Upper Mississippi!!!

Don't they have one of the upper Mississippi at the River museum in Dubuque? Haven't been there for a while. I know if they do it is not as detailed as this one.

Not sure if you guys have seen this or not, it's a trailer for the show. I've got it set to record on the dvr, should be pretty cool!

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/tv-schedule

Edit: Forgot to mention that after you click the link above you will need to choose Saturday the 3rd to watch the video

Leave it to the pro's to even bust up a jet drive unit!


That thing looked like a blast while it was running. I got a buddy that has a jet drive but not with nearly that kinda ponies.


Can't wait to see the show!


Great find to D!

watched the first episode tonight. AWESOME!!!! It's neat to see the river go from creek to big river, also the scenery of the headwaters is always neat to see. The scientist/Marine that is on this adventure has already done the entire river journey on his own, he did it on a vessel he built himself, used plastic bottles as floatation. I have the last two episodes yet to watch on the DVR.

Great! I was trying to find something to watch last night and forgot all about it!! :shock:

very neat. thanks for the info

Couched it for a while last night and this morning and got through all 3 episodes. Pretty cool journey, but a pretty vauge show IMO. It took them almost 6 weeks to finish the journey, but I would have never guessed that just by wathching the shows.

The scientist dude was pretty funny though, jumping out of the boat and onto floating rafts of brush, and hoping into a refridgerator that was floating down river and paddling it around for a while.

Probably would have been pretty boring if Stephen Browning wouldn't have been along with them.