Outdoors

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 The fish are still biting but few people are fishing.The river is not flowing, but it’s not nasty. We are open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Closed Sundays and Mondays until next snagging season. Caplinger Woods by Carli Burchertt 417/276-3838 It’s been a slow week.

Myrtle Kelly was a widow lady, a good friend of my grandparents, who owned the Big Piney River bottom fields next to the Sweet Potato Eddy. I have written about her before, how I would ride my bicycle down to her place as a boy and we would fish up and down the river by

Marty Marsh hopes to combine his interest in outdoor recreational activities with a long career in state education to show teachers in southwest Missouri how conservation can provide innovative curriculum ideas. In July, Marsh began his duties as Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) Education District Supervisor for MDC’s 17-county Southwest Region. He will be working

Caplinger Woods by Emma Milsap 417/276-3838 They are catching crappie and catfish. We’re selling worms and minnows about equally. Our hours are 9-6 and Sundays 9-5. Stockton State Park Marina by Jeremy Stapp, guide 417/276-5329 or 417/844 -6375 The crappie are biting good in brushpiles in 20 ft. of water best on minnows and some

When I went to School of the Ozarks College in the early summer of ‘65, I was only 17 years old. A counselor in high school had applied for me and in late May of that year I was notified that I hadn’t been accepted. If you want to talk about miracles, consider this one.

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 Fishing is good early and late and on trotlines. Blue cats and flatheads are biting. The river is up a little and has some current. You can still use the boat ramp. We are open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Closed Sundays and Mondays until

If you’ve walked Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center’s Ridgetop Trail, you may have noticed a curious post with a phone bracket attached. That post is part of Chronolog — a nationwide community science project documenting environmental changes over time. “Chronolog stations allow visitors to contribute to long-term monitoring of landscapes by capturing repeat photographs,” said

In the 1980’s when I lived in North Arkansas, some friends and I often went to southern Missouri to hunt ducks at a waterfowl conservation area known as Schell Osage. It was some of the best duck hunting you could find anywhere and back then I hunted ducks each year in several states and two

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 The river is normal. They had several fish on trotlines this morning – mostly blue cats with a few flat heads. It was cloudy yesterday so it didn’t get too hot to fish. I went to the Picnic Thursday and got my corndog We are open

The first thing you need to catch a big flathead catfish is a nice farm pond full of “perch”. Well, actually they aren’t perch. They are sunfish, of one kind or another. “Perch” is a term the old timers in the pool hall gave to all types of panfish in the Ozarks, and it has