The Eleven Point is the prettiest of the Ozark trout waters — a National Scenic River running clear and cold through the Mark Twain forest country, given its character by Greer Spring, which roughly doubles the river's flow where it comes in and turns a warm Ozark stream into trout water. Below the spring branch it's a float-and-wade river of long clear pools and gravel riffles holding stocked and wild rainbows and a few browns, the kind of water you fish from a canoe as much as on foot, with the scenery half the point. It's spring-fed, so it runs stable and cold rather than rising and falling on a dam's whim — a different and gentler animal than the big generation tailwaters. Fish scuds, midges and soft hackles through the cool months and small dries when the fish are up, and give yourself time to drift the bluff pools. A scenic spring-river counterpoint to the region's tailwaters.

• Limestone

• Aquatic life: Not assessed
• Fish consumption: Impaired