Outdoors

Squire Lee was an old country gentleman who lived on a sloping hillside above the river. His home was not far from the little cabin where my dad spent much of his childhood. In the river below his old two-story home was a deep eddy with a giant rock sticking out of it. Dad and

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 We got a lot more rain than I thought we’d get. The boat ramp is under water and you can’t get to the bank to snag. So I’ve kind of lost track of spoonbilling. The blue cats are biting. I’m selling lots of bait. I think

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 Spoonbilling is decent from a boat. If you have a live scope you can locate the bigger fish. Fishing from the bank is tough. If we get the predicted rain and the river rises a little and has some current, the spoonbilling will be fantastic the

Rock bass are to Ozark flowing streams what crappie are to reservoirs. Creel census figures show that they make up the largest percentage of fish caught and fish kep0t by stream fishermen in the Ozarks. Missouri fisheries people once kept track of the fish coming out of the Big Piney, Current, Niangua, Huzzah, and Courtois,

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 Spoonbilling is great. The river is up a little and has some current. They are catching them from Osceola up river past Taberville to the cut off. From a boat is best, but bank fishermen are catching them. Size depends on who you are and how

Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows young turkey hunters in Missouri harvested 4,428 birds over the past youth weekend, April 12-13. Top harvest counties were Osage with 107 birds harvested, Gasconade with 105, and Texas with 94. Young hunters checked 3,721 birds during the 2024 spring youth weekend. “Excellent turkey hunting

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 Spoonbiling is good and getting better. The river is coming up at just the right time. There’s a group here from Texas and Oklahoma that’s been meeting here for 20 or 30 years. They just snagged three in the past hour that averaged about 50 lbs.

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) wants everyone to discover the fun of fishing.  To give people of all disabilities a chance to try angling, MDC will host a Fishing for People with Disabilities program Saturday, May 3 from 10 a.m. – noon at Lake 15 on the August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area in

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 They are still catching spoonbills. They are not as plentiful as they once were. Boat fishing is best. Bank fishing is tough. They are catching spoonbills in the Taberville area and up by the railroad bridge. I’m still selling crappie minnows. We are open from 8

Fishing is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get … and often you’d just as soon it was different than what you ended up with. That’s what happened to me this past week. On a day that I figgered I would catch the farr out of ‘em— I