Outdoors

The Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Southeast Regional office is buying seeds this summer and fall from public landowners for a variety of tree and shrub species around the region. Prices are by the pound of fruit. The timing of seed maturity varies. MDC reminds the public to wait and allow seeds to reach maturity

The crawdad, or crayfish, is an unusual creature, always looking back where he has been, and going where his isn’t looking. Quite often where he has been appears quite safe and there looms a bass or walleye or catfish where he is going and he winds up not going as far as he thought he

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660/781-8020 They are still catching blue cats and flat heads. There’s not very many people fishing. The river is a little bit low. We are open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday. Caplinger Woods by Stephanie Finch 417/276-3838 It’s pretty dead

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660/781-8020 The boat ramp is open. The river is down. Fish are biting. Two campers were here three days. They set two trotlines with a variety of baits. They caught their limits of blue cats every day. I didn’t weigh their fish but their biggest one

What a hail storm the Midwest just had! “ I ain’t never seen nothin’ like it”, I heard one old timer say. I have said the exact same thing several times the last few years. You have to start getting some age on you to say that effectively. I never, ever said that when I

Bullfrog season is open! I might go down to my pond soon and grab a couple to eat. Usually, when you read a natural history account, it discusses the basic things you find in a nature book of some type, like when the bird or animal migrates or hibernates, how many young it has, and

There have been many innovations since the use of the first fishing lures, including the advent of the many varieties of pork-rind. Probably the use of pork-rinds all came about when some old-timer couldn’t find any fishin’ worms, and turned as a last resort to a strip of thin-sliced bacon. My uncle, an old time

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660/781-8020 The boat ramp is open. The river is down to about 2 ft. above normal. They caught a 62 lb. flathead on a trotline, a 54 and a 40 and lots of smaller flatheads and blue cats.. We are open from 8 a.m. until

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660/781-8020 The boat ramp is open. The river is down three or four feet. Don’t know if the river is rising or falling. You can fish with rod and reel. River is too swift to set trotlines, Throw lines and bank poles are working. They

Adult male summer tanagers are entirely red and easily seen as they forage for insects among bright green tree leaves in early summer. With Independence Day coming up in July and other semiquincentennial (250th anniversary of the U.S.) celebrations, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) encourage people to look for red, white, and blue in