Outdoors

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 They are catching lots of blue cats. Trot lining is good. The river is muddy but stable. You can use the boat ramp now. We are open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Closed Sundays and Mondays until next snagging season. Caplinger Woods by Stephanie Finch

I sat on my back porch one day last week watching the birds around the feeders in the back yard.  For thirty years I have never seen a red headed woodpecker come to those feeders until this year.  Those beautifully colored woodpeckers like to be around water, and a pair have nested down by the

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 They are catching lots of fish. You can catch all the two to five lb. blue cats you want. You’ll occasionally catch a bigger one up to the slot length. The river is still too swift set trot lines. You can use the boat ramp now.

Missouri is home to more than 1 million anglers, 500,000 hunters, and several thousand trappers. MDC issues nearly 2.6 million hunting, fishing, and trapping permits each year. To keep pace with continually rising costs of goods and services, MDC is proposing increases for 2026 to some nonresident, resident, and commercial permit prices. Changes include significant

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 The boat ramp is four feet under water. You can launch any where but Taberville. They are catching fish but not tearing them up. The river can’t decide what it’s going to do, We are open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Closed Sundays and Mondays

Charlie Curran, the eighty-eight year old Big Piney river-guide whom I wrote about recently, made a trip over to the Osceola area of Truman Lake with a friend, to fish for catfish. He took with him twenty jugs, each with his name, address and phone number on them as the law requires. Early that morning

Table Rock State Park has completed improvements to Campground 2, including new 50-amp sewer, electric and water services for 22 campsites. The renovated campsites are available for reservations immediately. To give the public the opportunity to see the improvements and visit with park team members, a ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday, June

New ginseng regulations require a dealer permit, harvest permit, and root certification by MDC. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reminds ginseng harvesters and dealers of new regulations that become effective July 1. MDC sent letters to registered ginseng dealers with the information late last year after regulations were approved. MDC also provided information to

The Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) George O. White Tree Nursery in Licking is currently purchasing seed from the public for a variety of species. The nursery conducts seed collections periodically and collected seeds are grown into bare root seedlings. MDC is currently interested in species that produce seed late in the summer and in

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 The river is bank full and rising. They were able to launch a boat this morning but I don’t know now. Blue cats are biting. You can’t set lines. Too much trash. They are catching some flatheads. We are open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m.