There are a number of streams in the Ozarks anglers can float down and go smallmouth fishing. The Kings River, Illinois River, Little Sugar, Buffalo, Crooked Creek and War Eagle River just to name a few of the more popular ones. Today, the float trip was going to be interesting. I would be fishing and floating down an Ozark stream with Derek Burleson. We haven’t ever fished together before, but the challenge of catching big smallmouth bass in Ozark streams brought us together.