Try the North Fork (Ozark County, MO). Decent access can be had at Blair
Bridge, but a float would be better.

A friend of mine (Myron) owns River of Life Farm (just add dot com to the
name for web site) just upstream from Blair Bridge (in the "suburbs" of
Dora) and rents canoes, kyaks, rafts, some cool cabins and can hook you up
with some pretty good guides, if you'd like one. (Just tell him Mark from
Illinois sent you and he'll only charge you double, maybe triple)

You can also rent canoes from the store at Twin Bridges (Hwy 14 & 181),
Petit's Canoe Rental and about 20 other places between there and Dawt.

From Twin Bridges to Rainbow Springs is a decent small mouth stream and from
there to the headwaters of the lake is definitely trout country (fair to
good bows and BIG browns).

The Spring River, at Mammoth Springs is also decent, but can be crowded, and
the Warm Fork is a pretty good smallie stream (just upstream in Thayer)

Mark