When the river is up, they move to the tribs. Seems like this year the river has been up so long that the fish just are not returning to the big river. Not many fish in the mainstem rivers in Missouri, either, but they are loaded up in the tributaries. With the lower water (finally) they are starting to move back to the big river. Lots of little fish, though. Big spawn year. I think a lot of fish spawned so hard they may even have died. Not sure how siginificant that is, but the fish we saw when they were finishing up the spawn looked terrible.