Take a peek at the river south of New Orleans in March, and you’d swear you could walk across it. There’s a lower percentage of soil in the average household garden. Visibility is roughly comparable to the thickness of a gnat’s wing.
If someone told you your life depended on your ability to pull a redfish from it, you’d kiss your wife and kids goodbye. It would be hopeless.
A blue cat? Maybe. But a redfish? Never.
That’s in March. But jump ahead six months on the calendar, and check out the same river. Even up around the Crescent City, it’s low and slow and green and clean.
For a significant portion of the year — much of the summer and all of the fall — the river could have an entirely different moniker: the Big Salty.
From New Orleans south this time of year, the Mississippi River is saltier than a bag of Ruffles.
That’s because the climate in the Plains and Midwest undergoes an annual, seasonal drought in the summer and fall, which limits the amount of rainwater entering the Mississippi and its feeder rivers and creeks.
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