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10/27/2026

Another Morning on the River

Leaving the boat ramp this morning, I couldn't help but stop and appreciate the view.

There's something about watching the sun come up over the river that never gets old.

The quiet water, the cool morning air, and a sky painted in colors no man could ever duplicate.

Some folks spend their lives chasing things money can buy. Me, I'll take mornings like this.

God sure knows how to start a day.

Tri-Rivers Sporting Company
Built on the River. Driven by Adventure.

09/20/2026

TRI-RIVERS FIELD REPORT | LATE SEPTEMBER 🎣

Late September doesn’t mean river season is over.

The Missouri River catfish crowd is still going strong, with tournaments continuing into the end of the month and anglers still targeting big blues and flatheads.
Cooler nights and changing water temperatures are beginning to push the river toward its fall pattern.
On the Missouri and Grand, this is a good time to start watching deeper holes, current breaks, outside bends, dikes and areas holding bait.

Fishing takeaway: Keep fresh bait in the water, pay attention to current and don’t overlook the transition areas between shallow feeding water and deeper daytime holding spots.

Fall is coming—but there are still some river giants out there feeding.

Tri-Rivers Sporting Co. | Chasing River Giants

09/20/2026

TRI-RIVERS FIELD REPORT | LATE SEPTEMBER 🦌

The cameras are starting to tell the story.

We’re still seeing a few bucks traveling together, but those bachelor groups won’t last much longer.

Most of our better bucks are still showing up late at night or right around first light, and daylight movement remains pretty limited.

Food sources are changing, velvet is off, and the first stages of fall behavior are starting to show.

Hunting takeaway: Don’t educate them now. Keep the pressure low, watch your wind and access, and hunt the food-to-bedding routes when conditions are right.

Right now, patience may be the best tool in the woods.

The calendar says September—but the whitetail woods are starting to change.

Tri-Rivers Sporting Co. | Chasing River Giants

09/13/2026

LIMITED MISSOURI RIVER ARCHERY HUNTS — 2026

We’re opening a small number of low-pressure, self-guided deer hunts on a private 40.54-acre Missouri River property near Brunswick, Missouri.

This is not a season-long lease and it will not be overbooked.

Message me privately for available dates and details.

Limited dates. Family-managed Missouri River hunting ground.

09/13/2026

There’s something I want to say about the history we share on this page.

We live in a time when artificial intelligence can write a convincing story in seconds. It can also confidently give you a date, a place, a pic, a name, or an event that never happened.

That’s a problem when we’re talking about history.
Old photographs, forgotten towns, river stories, Native history, early settlers, steamboats, hunting camps, trading posts, floods, wars and the people who lived here deserve better than a good-sounding story that happens to be wrong.
We use modern tools here too. I’m not ashamed of that. They can help organize research, improve writing and point us toward things worth investigating.

But they are not the source.

Before we put something out as history, we need to be able to back it up. Old newspapers. County histories. Government records. Maps. Historical societies. Archives. Books. Firsthand accounts when they exist. And sometimes several of those need to agree before we say we know something happened.

Will we ever make a mistake? Probably. Anybody digging deep enough into local history eventually will.

But there is a big difference between making an honest mistake while doing research and publishing something simply because a computer made it sound believable.

Around here, the rivers have been carrying stories for hundreds and thousands of years.

We owe it to the people who came before us — and the people reading these stories today — to get those stories as right as we possibly can.

If we don’t know, we’ll say we don’t know.
If something is a local legend, we’ll call it a local legend.

If historians disagree, we’ll tell you they disagree.
And if we discover we got something wrong, we’ll correct it.

Because history shouldn’t just sound good.
It should be true.

— Tri-Rivers Sporting Company
Built on the River. Driven by Adventure.

08/22/2026

Waters hot fish aren't biting but the views are worth it

08/19/2026

HEADS UP — BRUNSWICK GRAND RIVER ACCESS CLOSURE

For anyone planning to fish, boat, or use the Grand River at Brunswick around Labor Day:

The Brunswick Access boat ramp will be closed August 31 through September 8 for invasive Asian carp removal efforts on the Grand River.

A closure sign is currently posted at the boat ramp.

As of right now, I have not been able to find a public notice from the Missouri Department of Conservation posted online, so I wanted to get the word out to local fishermen and boaters who may be making plans for that week.

MDC has conducted similar removal projects on the lower Grand in past years as part of efforts to reduce invasive silver and bighead carp populations.

Please plan accordingly and help spread the word to anybody who regularly uses the Brunswick Access.

— Tri-Rivers Sporting Co.
Built on the River. Driven by Adventure.

08/17/2026

Tri-Rivers History Series: Part 11

The Story Continues

For ten parts, we've followed these rivers through hundreds of years of history.

Before Missouri was a state, Native people traveled these waters. French traders followed. Lewis and Clark came through in 1804. Fur traders worked the rivers, early towns rose along their banks, steamboats connected them to a growing nation, and eventually steel rails changed the way people and goods moved across the country.

Through all of it, one thing remained.

The rivers.

The Missouri. The Grand. The Chariton.

They fed families, carried commerce, flooded towns, carved new channels, and shaped generations of people who learned to live with the rivers—not against them.

Today we travel them with outboards instead of keelboats. We hunt the bottoms, fish their waters, and watch the same sunsets people have watched here for generations.

The equipment changed.

The towns changed.

The rivers changed.

But that connection to this country never really did.

That's the history behind the place we call:

TRI-RIVERS COUNTRY

This won't be the end of our history stories. There are plenty left to tell.

But summer is winding down. Getting all the fall work done.The mornings will soon get cooler, the leaves will begin to turn, and another Pecan Festival, Goose Festival and my favorite time of the year to be outside Ducks and Bucks is just around the corner.

So we're going to let the history series rest for a while and turn our attention to what fall means in Tri-Rivers Country—deer in the timber, ducks and geese overhead, fishing these rivers, and another season spent outdoors.

We'll come back to the old stories.

For now, it's time to start making some new ones.

Built on the River. Driven by Adventure

Tri Rivers Sporting Company

08/09/2026

Tri-Rivers History Series: Part 10

When Steel Rails Changed River Country

For generations, the rivers ruled.

If you wanted to move people, livestock, crops, mail, or merchandise through this part of Missouri, the Missouri River was the highway.

Brunswick grew because of it.

In 1849 alone, Brunswick recorded 534 steamboat arrivals and departures—a reminder of just how busy the Missouri River once was.

Then came the railroad.

By the 1850s, railroads were pushing across northern Missouri, and suddenly the river wasn't the only way to move people and goods.

The change didn't happen overnight.

Plans for a railroad connecting Brunswick with communities to the north were interrupted by the Civil War. Work resumed afterward, and by 1870 a railroad connected Brunswick and Chillicothe.

Steel rails began reaching places the river couldn't.

Farmers could ship crops and livestock more reliably. Merchants could receive goods without waiting on river conditions. Mail, passengers, supplies, and news traveled faster.

And the railroad didn't just change existing towns.

It helped create new ones.

Triplett grew because a railroad station was needed.

And farther up in the Grand River bottoms, another community would eventually owe much of its growth to the railroad.

Sumner.

Before Sumner became the town we know today, the surrounding country had been home to an early trading post and scattered settlement. Flooding and marshland had kept a large town from developing there.

That changed when the railroads arrived.

Sumner was laid out in 1882, and the railroad helped turn a patch of Grand River bottom country into a growing community.

For generations, the rivers had determined where people traveled and where towns grew.

Now steel rails were beginning to redraw the map.

The rivers built Tri-Rivers Country.

The railroad helped connect it to a changing nation.

Built on the River. Driven by Adventure.

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