Outdoors

Get more details from MDC’s related hunting booklet on migratory game birds, available beginning in July where hunting permits are sold. At its April 5 meeting, the Missouri Conservation Commission approved recommendations from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) for the upcoming 2018 migratory-game-bird-hunting seasons and 2018-2019 waterfowl-hunting seasons. 2018 Migratory game bird hunting Mourning

According to preliminary data from Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), young turkey hunters harvested 1,723 turkeys during the 2018 spring youth season, April 7-8. Top harvest counties were Franklin with 51 turkeys harvested, Miller with 43, and Maries with 43. Young hunters checked a little over 4,000 turkeys during last year’s youth weekend. MDC Turkey

At its April 5 meeting, the Missouri Conservation Commission Suspended or revoked one or more hunting, fishing, or trapping privileges of 38 individuals for cause: 1. Justin R. Angermeier, Clinton, All Sport, 1 Year; 2. David H. Berry, Sr., Everton, All Sport, Lifetime; 3. David H. Berry Jr., Everton, All Sport, Lifetime; 4. Ridge E.

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) encourages hunters to think safety while in the woods turkey hunting. Youth spring turkey hunting season is April 7-8 and regular spring turkey hunting season begins April 16 and runs through May 6. Shooting hours for regular turkey season are from a half hour before sunrise to 1 p.m.

If you live a rural life, you spend enough time outdoors to know how many turkeys there are in your area. It is pretty simple to figure, because wild turkey group together in January to feed and roost – hens, poults and mature gobblers. They all come together and are easy to observe because as

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports that 11-year old Maverick Yoakum of Dixon became the most recent record-breaking angler in Missouri when he hooked a river redhorse on Tavern Creek using a rod and reel. The new “pole and line” record river redhorse caught by Yoakum on March 4 weighed 10-pounds, 3-ounces. The new

To everything there is a season, and in my life, winter has arrived. But heck, I like winter too. The ducks and geese I once followed south are soon to make their trip without me. The yeller suckers I waited for below flowing river shoals each spring will soon come there not knowing I ever

by Trish Yasger For Truman Lake, Lake of the Ozarks and the Osage River (below Bagnell Dam). We’ve been getting rains this past week and water temperatures are slowly warming up. Snaggers have been having good success on lower Truman Lake, Lake of the Ozarks, and the upper Osage River. With the increase in flow