[Augie]

In addition to arrogant you are also a presumptuous little bustard.

I didn’t didn’t offer an opinion. I simply stated how things are on that river every weekend all summer long.

[ArrogantBustard]

No presumption necessary. You yourself wrote " but drunken floaters are a fact of life on Ozark streams and that’s just the way it is."

Yep, that's just the way it is. You OK with that? You seem to be.

As for the rest ...

Yep. Arrogant Bustard says it all. Can't say I didn't warn you.

BTW, in some circles, a "floater" is a dead, decaying corpse in the water. In other circles, one will find a "floater" in the toilet bowl. So ... calling these obnoxious folk on the river "floaters" seems very appropriate.