Kissimmee River

black crappie) often move up in the Kissimmee River, but as the water temp cools they'll drop into the main lake and spread out into the reeds, Kissimmee grass and hydrilla.

"Water levels in Okeechobee, which lies at the end of the Kissimmee River Chain, have been good, too, and that lake is producing fast action and big fish, as well," he adds.

The solo private pilot performed a forced landing in the Kissimmee River, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage but no injuries.

Landscape ecology of Florida Dry Prairie in the Kissimmee River Region, p.

The system was fed by rainwater that from June to November surged down the Kissimmee River and into Lake Okeechobee.

Site of the 2008 championship is Florida's Lake Tohopekaliga, or Lake Toho, the largest water body in the Kissimmee River chain of lakes in the Central part of the state.

Touring the Kissimmee River restoration project in 1997 with Lou Toth, one of the project ecologists, was a transformative experience for me.

The Kissimmee River was diked, straightened and concreted by the Army Corps of Engineers during the Everglades extravaganza of the 1940s and 50s.

Gracious oaks, disheveled myrtles, sandhill cranes, and gopher tortoises punctuated a land that told the record of its history in one sweeping glance: the Seminole, the Florida Cracker, and the Kissimmee River. It was love at first sight.

He said the longest bore--4,096 feet--was under Chandler Slough, one of an interconnecting network of sloughs, man-made canals and natural creeks that drain to the Kissimmee River and Lake Okeechobee.

Goral pointed out that the longest bore 4,096 feet was under Chandler Slough, one of an interconnecting network of sloughs, man-made canals and natural creeks that drain to the Kissimmee River and Lake Okeechobee.