Outdoors

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announced that hunters checked 3,698 turkeys during Missouri’s fall firearms turkey season, Oct. 1-31. Last year’s fall firearms turkey harvest total was 6,158. Top harvest counties for the 2016 fall firearms turkey season were Greene with 128, Franklin with 96, and Wayne with 92. MDC’s turkey biologist says this

Permit vendors are using a new sales system this year so the process might take longer. Permits are available at the MDC office, 1109 S. Main St. in El Dorado Springs and multiple permit vendors in town, online at mdc.mo.gov, or the Mo Hunting smartphone app. You will need: Your conservation number (found on an

Top counties for the early youth hunt were Osage with 253, Howell with 246, and Franklin with 242. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announced that young hunters ages 6 through 15 checked 11,171 deer during Missouri’s early youth portion of the 2016 deer hunting season, which ran Oct. 29-30. Top

Taberville Report by Linda McCallister Dains Fish Farm It slowed down just a little this week. It was still good over the weekend. We still had our campers running trotlines. They were using the smaller bullheads and gold fish. They were still catching flatheads but not the size they were before. They were getting 30

Taberville Report by Linda McCallister Dains Fish Farm I don’t know about the condition of the river but we have campers and they are catching fish The couple that caught a 56 pound flathead last week before the river came up, came back. They found half their lines. They caught a 25 lb. flathead this

This is a good time of the year to reiterate two facts of nature that many people don’t believe when they hear them. Those two facts are: Yes, there really is such a thing as a snipe and … Yes, in Missouri, you really can go on a snipe hunt. Contrary to what many people

Taberville Report by Linda McCallister Dains Fish Farm The wind has picke up quite a bit so our bowhunters are kinda discouraged. They just don’t even want to sit in the treestands. One of them came in and got some nightcrawlers. I told him as of yesterday right down here under the bridge from the

Taberville Report by Linda McCallister Dains Fish Farm We’ve got a lot of people trotlining right now. They are having a lot of luck. Basically, they are using perch, bullheads and brown carp. They are getting flatheads. We’ve had reports from people that got at least three every time they ran their lines. The biggest

Autumn is here, and opening weekend of Missouri’s firearms deer season is just over a month away. Now is a good time to take a Hunter Education Course and become hunter-education certified through the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC). Missouri’s Hunter Education Course is required for anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 1967, and

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) provides detailed information on Missouri waterfowl hunting in its 2016-2017 Waterfowl Hunting Digest, available where permits are sold and online at short.mdc.mo.gov/ZoD. Changes for the upcoming season include 21 more days of Canada goose hunting with all regular goose seasons opening the same day, Nov. 11, and closing the