re: Greatest Southern River Championship: The Tennessee River Wins!:Lawd:

Spent my early years boating up and down roughy 18 miles between locks south of Hannibal and north of Clarksville. Swift and dangerous current, but amazing sandbars. IMO, and maybe in my imagination, but the Mississippi become more polluted at STL where Missouri and Illinois rivers join. Either way rivers are massive ditches and drainage basins. Table Rock Lake is best body of water in MO.