Rymers to Bay Creek

Below Rymers the Jacks Fork runs about nine and a half miles1 to Bay Creek, the longest stretch between public landings on the upper river2. No bridge crosses it, and for most of the way no public road3 comes down to the water. Through this reach the river falls about 7 feet a mile4. The river swings in long loops through a canyon, north from Rymers, east past Sycamore Hollow, north again to Chalk Bluff, and around the mouth of Leatherwood Creek to Bee Bluff5. Bluffs stand on the outsides of the bends and wooded slopes on the insides, and the gravel bars and a few small fields are the only flat ground6. Leatherwood Creek, the largest side stream7 of the reach, comes in from the left about three miles above Bay Creek8, and below it the valley begins to widen and the bars grow larger9 (Chapter 15).

The river runs on the Gasconade Dolomite, with the Roubidoux Formation higher10 in the bluffs and on the uplands. Outcrops of the Cryptozoon chert, a bed of fossil algal mounds turned to chert, have been mapped along the river from a little above Rymers to a couple of miles above Bay Creek11, and the long Houston fault crosses the river a couple of miles below Rymers12 (Chapter 1).

The reach gains water from the riverbed more than from its hollows. In the dry week of August 2006 the river carried about 38 cubic feet a second near Rymer Spring and about 45 a mile or two above Bay Creek, while the hollows measured on the way were dry and Bay Creek added half a cubic foot13 a second (Chapter 12). With no large spring to cool it, the water here is the warmest in the Riverways, about 63 °F averaged over the year at Rymers and at Bay Creek14 (Chapter 16).

The canyon above Leatherwood holds some of the best mussel water left on the river. In 2017–19 timed searches found 331 live mussels at a site about a mile below Rymers, 300 of them Ouachita kidneyshells, more than at any other site15 on the Jacks Fork. Below Leatherwood the counts fell, though a site between Bee Hollow and Bay Creek, first searched in 1982, still held 203, and the site at Bay Creek held 716. In 2023 searchers found four species alive below Rymers and three near Bee Hollow, and only an empty shell near the mouth of Bay Creek17 (Chapter 16).

Bunker Hill is a privately owned retreat18, and Chalk Bluff and part of the valley of Leatherwood Creek20 belong to a private foundation19. Bunker Hill Cave, Moss Spring Cave21 and Sycamore Cave22 lie on this stretch, and the valley of Leatherwood Creek holds about twenty caves and shelters on land its owner had posted23 by the early 1980s (Chapter 13). Rymers to Bay Creek is floated as a trip of its own24, and Bay Creek ends the two-day float of about eighteen miles from the Highway 17 bridge25 (Chapter 20).

The miles in the headings are counted from the junction of the prongs along the surveyed channel. Chalk Bluff is at about mile 21.6, the mouth of Leatherwood Creek at 22.7 and the mouth of Bay Creek at 25.926. Left and right are as you face downstream. Because the river loops, the left bank is the west bank in some places and the north or south bank in others.

Bend by bend

Pipe Spring Hole, Johnny Hollow and Johnny Hollow Hole

Pools and hollow · right bank (hollow) · about miles 16.6 to 16.8 · Plate A7

Below the Rymers Ranch Stretch (Reach E) come Pipe Spring Hole, about 5 feet deep at low water34, and Johnny Hollow Hole. The river is said to divide at the mouth of Johnny Hollow, which comes in on the right about a third of a mile below the landing28. The hollow drains more than six square miles. Its upper course runs down Floyd Hollow, and an unnamed branch of more than two square miles29 joins it a short way above the river. Johnny Hollow is said to run a good stream of water27, though a mile of its bed is one of the three officially listed losing streams30 in the watershed, and in the dry August of 2006 it put nothing into the river31 (Chapter 12). In the open-range days a logger born in 1916, who worked at Rymer’s ranch in the 1930s, put his salt out for his cattle at the mouth of the hollow, and they ranged from there down to Alley32 (Chapter 5). The Devil’s Backbone, the ridge the road of 1916 came down to the river, is said to lie on the Johnny Hollow side33 of the old ranch (Reach E).

Bunker Hill

Private retreat · left bank · about mile 17.2

Bunker Hill stands on a knoll on the left bank35 a little below Johnny Hollow. It is a privately owned retreat, whose history as a fishing camp of 1929, the teachers’ camp from 1947 and, since 201336, the home of the Friends of Bunker Hill is in Chapter 9.

The name is said to come from the sawmilling days. By one account the Bunker-Culler Lumber Company, whose founders built the town of Bunker, ran a large mill on the knoll late in the 1800s or early in the 1900s, until a flash flood off the upper river washed the sawmill away and drowned several mules, and the company moved the mill to Pine Grove37. The brothers Samuel and George Culler moved a big sawmill from Mountain View early in the 1900s to high ground between Reynolds and Dent counties, where in 1907 Sylvanus J. Bunker founded the town that carries his name. By the end of that year Bunker had more than 250 new houses and about a thousand people, most of them working for the company, and its mill was soon cutting more than 100,000 feet38 of lumber a day. A German family is said to have taken up the land after the mill, grown tobacco on the spots where brush piles had been burned, and made cigars called Ozark Trail, which came in a green box, before the land went to the teachers39. The state highway map of 1938 lettered the place Bunker Hill Ranch, a name nobody could explain the next year40. A well drilled at the ranch in 1962 went down 330 feet into the lower part of the Gasconade Dolomite41.

Stillhouse Hollow below Bunker Hill

Hollow · left bank · about mile 17.3

Just below Bunker Hill a short hollow of about a square mile and a half42 comes in on the left. The federal maps have called it Stillhouse Hollow since at least 1968, and the corrections of 2011 gave the same name to the long valley at the head of Chalk Bluff, about four miles downstream43 (Chapter 18). By one account it was known as Big Stillhouse Hollow, and whiskey was made in it more than once44. A longtime angler and hunter of the middle river calls it “Little stillhouse.” In August 2006 the hollow was dry, and so was a spring near it45.

Low Gap Bluff and Low Gap Hole

Bluff and pool · left bank · about mile 17.7 · Plate A7

The river curves to the right around the long Low Gap Bluff, on the outside of the bend47, with Low Gap Hole along it and a good stream of water said to come in on the right. The bluff rises about 240 feet48, and the water at its foot is said to be always full of logs and fallen trees46. The same angler, asked about a long curving bluff below Bunker Hill with several holes along it, named it “Low gap bluff.”

Dark Hollow and Dark Hollow Hole

Hollow and pool · right bank · mile 18.0 · Plate A7

Dark Hollow is a short hollow of less than a square mile49, steep-sided and dark. Its mouth comes in on the right at the head of a turn to the north51, and the pool there bears its name. Like the river at Johnny Hollow, the water at the mouth is said to be divided50. The logger who salted his cattle at Johnny Hollow, and who later guided fishermen, remembered Dark Hollow Hole below Bunker Hill as fifteen feet deep, and by the early 1990s he had heard that people could wade it; he blamed the gravel52 (Chapter 15). At low water it is about 9 feet deep today, among the deepest pools on the river54. The angler marked the hole on a map at the mouth of the hollow53.

A branch of about half a square mile comes in on the left half a mile below, at about mile 18.555.

The Lodder holes, Lodder Bluff and Lodder Ford

Pools, bluff and ford · left bank (bluff) · about miles 18.3 to 19.5

Below Dark Hollow come three holes known as Upper, Middle and Lower Lodder Hole, flanked by a long, high bluff on the left that begins below the upper hole, a separate bluff from Low Gap Bluff above Dark Hollow57. The names are said to come from a Lodder family who lived nearby, though who they were has not been traced58 (Chapter 8). By one account the holes had filled in by 1980 compared with earlier years. A dripping bluff is said to flank the middle hole, and a small spring comes in on each side of the river below the ford. Lodder Ford, by the bluff, is said to be a favorite spot for hunters56.

The bluff rises about 340 feet above the water, one of the tallest faces on the river59. Floaters in April 2007 found an abandoned side channel at its base, left when the river moved south60, away from the foot of the rock. The places the angler marked on a map set the middle hole about mile 18.7 and the lower hole about 19.2, and put the ford at the end of the bluff by the mouth of Sycamore Hollow61. A woman who knew the upper river as a child in the 1920s remembered Loader Ford and Catfish Bluff for their deep holes, “and that’s where people fished a lot”62 (Chapters 18 and 19).

Sycamore Hollow and Sycamore Hole

Hollow and pool · right bank · about mile 19.6 · Plate A7

Sycamore Hollow comes in from the south, draining nearly three square miles63, and the pool at its mouth is known as Sycamore Hole. A good spring64 is said to run water into it. To the angler, who knows the hollow, it has changed65.

Eighteen Foot Hole and False Teeth Hole

Pools · about miles 20.0 to 20.2 · Plate A7 (False Teeth Hole)

Below Sycamore Hollow the river turns north into Eighteen Foot Hole66. It is said to have its name from the giggers, whose sixteen-foot gig pole67 would not quite reach the bottom. Next is False Teeth Hole, which, the story goes, claimed a woman’s false teeth one day, and she was told to drag a roasting ear68 of corn over the bottom to get them back.

Catfish Bluff and the Catfish holes

Bluffs and pools · both banks · about miles 20.5 to 20.9

The Upper and Lower Catfish holes lie under bluffs, the upper on the left and the lower on the right, where the bluff rises about 150 feet70. The holes in the rock under the water are said to have made a good home for catfish, and small springs69 come in above and below the upper bluff. By the angler’s mark on a map, Catfish Bluff is on the left a little above Boat Hole71.

Boat Hole, Calhoun Bottom and the Spring Hole

Pools and bottom · left bank (bottom) · about miles 20.8 to 21.2 · Plate A7

Boat Hole lies just above Calhoun Bottom, a field on the left73, and below it comes the Spring Hole72.

Stillhouse Hollow and Nickelhoff Hole

Hollow and pool · right bank · about mile 21.4 · Plate A7 (Nickelhoff Hole)

Stillhouse Hollow comes in from the south at the head of Chalk Bluff74, a valley three and a half miles long75 whose creek drains about four square miles76. Until the 2011 corrections the federal maps called it Bee Hollow, and those corrections moved the Stillhouse name here77 from a short valley on the same bank about a mile and a half upstream (Chapter 18). A park folder of 1977 told floaters that Chalk Bluff comes into view after they pass Still House Hollow78. By one account the hollow held one of the many whiskey stills along the Jacks Fork, supplied by a good spring a quarter of a mile up79.

The pool at the mouth of the hollow is known as Nickelhoff Hole80. The hollow itself is “Nickelloff”81 to the angler, and the park’s list of primitive campsites in 1981 included a Nickeloff Field82 on this stretch of the river.

Chalk Bluff

Bluff · right bank · about mile 21.6 · Plate A7

Chalk Bluff is the landmark of the reach, a long, high, pale84 wall on the outside of a sharp bend to the left83. Its face rises about 200 feet above the water85, though its height has also been given as about 12086. A floater of 1996 called it “whitish,” and below it found the river wider and lined with rolling hills. The water along the bluff is known as the Chalk Bluff Stretch87. Nearly every bluff on the river is dolomite88 (Chapter 1), and a park folder of 1977 took this one for chalk89.

A spring on the right above the bluff is said to flow over a round, solid rock, and another comes out at the edge of the gravel below it. That lower spring, by one account, was found to ebb and flow one day when two men, Fodder Jones and Carl Seaman, stopped there to eat lunch and watched it rise for about ten minutes90 and fall again. The angler marks a spring near the upper end of the bluff91, and a resident who came to Mountain View from Oklahoma in 1979 knows of a spring at Chalk Bluff but could not mark where92. How such springs work is in Chapter 12.

The woods behind the bluff are known as the Iron Stake Woods, said to be a good place to hunt, and named for a large iron stake driven into the ground in the logging days, when a tram reached the head of Bee Hollow93 behind the bluff (below).

The bluff belongs to the L-A-D Foundation, though it lies inside the national riverways. In late April 2015 someone spray-painted a patch of its face about 12 feet by 24. That June a man pleaded guilty in federal court and paid $4,097.96 in fines and restitution, and three volunteers from the Cave Research Foundation rappelled down the bluff and spent two days scrubbing the paint off with water, vinegar and wire brushes, finishing on June 2994.

The Kelly holes and Big and Little Bear hollows

Pools and hollows · left bank · about miles 21.8 to 22.3 · Plate A7

Around the bend from Chalk Bluff the river runs west past Upper Kelly Hole and turns north at Lower Kelly Hole95. Upper Kelly Hole is said to lie at the mouth of Big Bear Hollow and Lower Kelly Hole at the mouth of Little Bear Hollow, a short way below; both hollows come in on the left97. By one account both holes have filled with gravel, though Lower Kelly Hole is still about 10 feet deep at low water, the deepest of the river’s named holes100. Big Bear is the hollow the federal maps call Spring Hollow, a short, rough and brushy hollow of a little over half a square mile98 with a large spring flowing out of the ground near the river, and the angler calls it “Big bear”99 too. Little Bear is also said to run water96.

Leatherwood Creek

Creek · left bank · about mile 22.7 · Plate A8

Leatherwood Creek comes into the river on the left through a big gravel bar101. It is the largest side stream of the reach, about twelve miles long and draining about twenty square miles. The federal maps name Sugar Tree, Walnut and Dry hollows along its course, and its North Prong and South Prong102 join it far up the valley. By one account it heads at Oakside on Highway 17 and runs water all the way down, with many springs103 along it. On the state’s stream maps its lowest five and a half miles flow all year, and the South Prong, more than seven miles long, has no permanent flow104. A man born in 1926 who fished up Leatherwood as a boy said in the early 1990s that “now there isn’t much water”105 where he used to fish.

The name is said to have come from the early settlers, after the leatherwood that grew thickly on the north and east slopes along the creek. It is a low shrub, one of the first in the Ozarks to bloom, its pale yellow tubular flowers hanging in clusters on bare branches, and its bark and branches are tough enough that, by the same account, Indians used them for baskets and for tying106. It flowers in late March and April, before its leaves open, and the yellow tube of each flower is its calyx, since it has no petals. The twigs bend without breaking and can be tied in knots, settlers used them as withes for binding, and the stems went into cordage, baskets and sandals. Every part of the plant is bitter, and the bark can blister some people’s skin107.

In April 2025 the state made 1,440 acres of the valley the Leatherwood Creek Natural Area, on land of the L-A-D Foundation, which manages it through the Pioneer Forest that Leo Drey founded in 1951. Drey had begun buying cutover Ozark timberland that year, and when he learned in 1953 that some 90,000 acres belonging to National Distillers were to be clear-cut, he went to New York and arranged to buy them. He cut his forest by single-tree selection, taking trees one at a time and leaving the stand, set up the L-A-D Foundation in 1962, and in 2004 he and his wife gave the Pioneer Forest to the foundation. When he died in 2015, at ninety-eight, it covered about 143,000 acres in six Missouri counties109. Upstream the creek cuts through Roubidoux sandstone, and toward the mouth it winds between steep bluffs of Gasconade Dolomite, with as much as 400 feet from the valley floor to the ridgetops. Cliff, forest, woodland and fen hold more than 500 native plants, some of them glacial relicts more at home in the Great Lakes states that hang on in the Ozarks on steep, sheltered north-facing slopes, and darters and other fish that need clean water live in the creek. The natural area has no facilities108. In 1977 the park pointed floaters to the creek mouth110 to see the mix of eastern, southern and western plants (Chapter 16).

A lot of families once lived along Leatherwood, and by one account Loss Millman had a sawmill about three miles up111 the creek in 1928. John Woolsey is said to have lived on Leatherwood before the Civil War, and the trail named for him ran from his home up the creek and over the ridges to his brother’s place on the North Prong (Reach A). He is probably buried, by the same account, in a field on the point between Leatherwood and Rough Hollow, where six to twelve graves include one of a man named Link112. In November 1863 a Union patrol came down to the river by Woolsey’s trail and burned the cabin of Miles and Jack Stephens113, by one account near the mouth of the creek114 (Chapter 6). Peter Renfro, who killed a Summersville constable in 1888, is said to have hidden in a cave on Leatherwood115 (Chapter 13).

Up the valley a ridge above the creek is called the Mule Corral, with a sawmill said to have stood nearby, and a large sinkhole called the Big Basin lies across from Low Gap, the gap between the South Prong and Walnut Hollow116. On the upland between the lower creek and the river lies the Dogwood Basin, in country known as the Tin Roof, after a shed a cattleman was building whose tin was stolen117 before he could finish it. Leatherwood is said to have been a good place to make whiskey118, and Harley Patterson, by one account the best whiskey maker on the upper Jacks Fork, made good whiskey and a lot of it. The creek is also known for cottonmouths, and some people will swear that a stick thrown into it will be mobbed by them. The snake itself, and the river’s other cottonmouth stories, are in Chapter 16.

Center Field

Field · right bank · about mile 22.9 · Plate A8

Center Field lies on the right, in the sharp bend the river makes around Bee Bluff119.

Rough Hollow

Hollow · left bank · about mile 23.1 · Plate A8

Rough Hollow comes in on the left, draining nearly two square miles120. It is the second Rough Hollow121 on the upper river, after the one above Rymers (Reach E). It is said to run water for some distance and to be hard going122 on foot. The hollow is part of the Leatherwood Creek Natural Area123. By one account J. U. Woolsey lived on the ridge124 between Rough Hollow and Leatherwood.

Bee Bluff, Bee Bluff Hole and Spring Bluff Hole

Bluff and pools · left bank · about miles 23.3 to 23.5 · Plate A8

Bee Bluff stands on the outside of a hairpin bend, where the river turns from north to east125, and rises about 240 feet126. In 1977 the park told floaters that honeybees’ homes could sometimes be seen in the holes high in its uneven face127, and George Ipock, by one account, took honey out of those holes with a long ladder. The pool beside the bluff is Bee Bluff Hole. Below it is Spring Bluff Hole, about 6 feet deep at low water129, named for a small spring, with a pipe128 said to carry water out of the spring. The old Forsite Place, said to have been homesteaded by a family named Justis130, lay on the left below the bluff. The park’s list of primitive campsites in 1981 ran “Bee Bluff to Bay Creek.”

Bee Hollow Ford

Former crossing · about mile 23.9

Above Bee Hollow, by one account, Oscar and Adolf Kooler built a low-water bridge in the logging days, with sides of logs filled with big rocks. A spring flood carried it away long ago, and the place is now called Bee Hollow Ford131.

Bee Hollow, Bee Hollow Branch and Bee Hollow Hole

Hollow, branch and pool · right bank · about mile 24.0 · Plate A8

Bee Hollow comes in from the south about seven-tenths of a mile below Bee Bluff132, and its stream, Bee Hollow Branch, drains about a square mile and a half133. Both names have been official only since the 2011 corrections; before that the maps left the valley without a name and called its stream Island Branch134 (Chapter 18). The pool at the mouth is Bee Hollow Hole135. In the logging days a tram of the Cordz-Fisher company is said to have come out of Pine Hollow into the head of Bee Hollow, the hollow below Bee Bluff, ending about a quarter of a mile from the river behind Chalk Bluff. It hauled logs to the mill at Birch Tree, with pine knots piled along the route to fire the boiler136 (Chapter 7).

Spring Hollow below Bee Bluff

Hollow · left bank · about mile 24.1

A little below Bee Hollow a hollow known as Spring Hollow comes in on the left, a different hollow from the Spring Hollow at the Kelly holes. A small spring rises in it, and a man named Leech is said to have made whiskey there, with the spring for water and dead cedar for fuel, since it burns with almost no smoke137.

The Flat Hole and the tie yard

Pool and former tie landing · about miles 24.3 to 24.7

The Flat Hole lies between Bee Hollow and a hollow on the right known as Turkey Roost Hollow, which comes in at about mile 24.7, where the river begins its turn north toward Dyer Bluff139. By one account it has filled in so badly that it is only a shallow stretch of water, slow and flat enough to take a long time to get through. Above it there is said to have been a tie yard, where ties were dropped into the river down a chute (Chapter 7). Jabe Searcy’s cabin is said to have stood on the left. In 1980 the road along the north bank, which came in from Highway 106 by Bay Creek, ran upstream past the old George Dyer Place and the Forsite Place and climbed over the hill toward Bee Bluff. In 1977 the park described campsites strung along it down to Bay Creek140, and in 2007 the road ran about two miles upriver from the campground with campsites scattered141 along the way. The river from Bay Creek up to the old Justis Place is by one account a favorite place to camp138.

Dyer Bluff, George Dyer Bluff and Big Rock Hole

Bluffs and pool · both banks · about miles 25.0 to 25.7 · Plate A9

The big bluff on the right, rimmed by the river where it turns north toward Bay Creek, is called Dyer Bluff. It rises about 310 feet143 above the water. What looks from below like a cave in it is said to be only a shelter, a disappointment to anyone who climbs the steep slope142 to it.

George Dyer Bluff stands on the left between Bay Creek and the old George Dyer Place, above Big Rock Hole, and rises about 280 feet145. A rock on the bank, by one account, once stood six feet above the water there, and children dove off it into the hole. By 1980 the rock could no longer be seen144.

Bay Creek

Creek, landing and campground · left bank · about mile 25.9 · Plate A9

Bay Creek comes in on the left at the end of the reach. It drains about fifteen square miles of upland, but on the state’s stream maps only about a mile of its nine flows all year146, and in August 2006 it was adding half a cubic foot147 of water a second to the river. By one account it always runs water, though a floater hardly notices it, and its springs lie mostly in Watered Hollow, the fork of the creek that holds water; the Burk Heiney Spring, a big one, is said to rise below the mouth of Watered Hollow. Dry Hollow, which by the same account holds no visible water at all, comes down beside the creek at its mouth, and the road from Highway 106 came down it to the Joab Dyer Place148. The river used to swing to the right through what was called the Clay Bank Hole. By 1980 it ran straight past the mouth of the creek, and in normal water none flowed through the old channel149 (Chapter 15).

The Park Service keeps a landing and a backcountry campground at Bay Creek, at the end of a gravel road from Highway 106150 (Chapter 11). Archaeologists checking the ground for park development around 1980 recorded prehistoric chipped stone, including large dart points, at Bay Creek, along with late-nineteenth-century ceramics and bottle glass151 (Chapter 3). In April 2007 a party of cavers camped on a high gravel bar about a hundred yards from the last of the Bay Creek campsites, across from a high, steep bluff “pockmarked with holes.” Around midnight one of them heard a large animal moving through the brush across the narrow river, perhaps forty feet away, and got a good enough look to be confident it was a small black bear. A black bear had been reported in the vicinity, and it frequently broke into coolers at the Bay Creek campground152. Black bears, rare in Missouri by the 1850s (Chapter 13), had nearly disappeared by the early 1900s, and by the 1930s and 1940s few if any were left. Between 1958 and 1968 Arkansas released 254 bears caught in Minnesota and Manitoba, bears began crossing north into Missouri, and by 2024 the state estimated about a thousand, increasing by about 8 percent a year153.

The Joab Dyer Place stood on the hill between Bay Creek and Dry Hollow, and above the old home place, near the edge of the trees, thirty to forty graves make up the Dyer Cemetery, where Dyers, Donaldsons, Hardwicks, Ipocks, Stuarts, Coops and Cookys154 are buried. About twenty families are said to have lived on Bay Creek, and the big flood of 1928 ruined most of their small farms (Chapter 14). By one account there were two sawmills on the creek. In that flood the mule barn at Kooler’s mill, about a mile and a half up, washed away, and drowned mules were found the next day scattered clear to the mouth of the creek. Cleve Hoberry and a man named Babcock had the other mill about three miles up, and Hoberry, Joab Dyer’s father-in-law, is said to have come from California. Another mill stood at Black Pond155.

A sawyer born in 1914 who grew up near Bay Creek, and lived near it for forty-six years, remembered that people there held back from burning the woods to save the acorns for their hogs156 (Chapter 5). He also remembered “a lot of bays along the river, that the water come up but there wasn’t no current through it,” which disappeared when the drifts went out of the river. Where the creek’s name came from has not been recorded; another Bay Creek, on the Current, takes its name from Goose Bay157. In November 1863 ten Union militiamen came down Bay Creek to the Jacks Fork on the same patrol158 that came down Leatherwood (Chapter 6).

Places not yet placed

Fifteen Foot Hole. The park’s list of primitive campsites in 1981 ran “Rymer, Fifteen Foot Hole, Nickeloff Field, Bee Bluff to Bay Creek,” which, if the list runs downstream, puts a Fifteen Foot Hole somewhere between Rymers and Nickelhoff Hole. Dark Hollow Hole, remembered as fifteen feet deep159, and Eighteen Foot Hole both lie in that stretch.

Jones, Searcy, Upper Dixon and Lower Dixon. In 2022160 the park named four small backcountry areas between Rymers and Bay Creek, apparently in downstream order. Dixon Ford on the South Prong is a different place161 (Reach B).

The Alfalfa Field162. A map of 1980 letters a field called the Alfalfa Field on the left near False Teeth Hole.

On to Reach G

Below Bay Creek the river passes Dyer Ford and a small bluff on the left and runs on toward Flat Top Bluff and Island Branch163, the start of Reach G. Rules for the river are in Part Six.