Outdoors

This year marks the 25th anniversary of MDC offering a special youth weekend for spring turkey hunting. In April 2001, young Missouri turkey hunters got their first dedicated spring hunting weekend for wild turkeys in the Show-Me-State. Over the decades, youth spring turkey hunting has grown in popularity. In 2001, MDC sold just over 4,000

I found an old pocket-knife the other day, fairly rusty, and with part of the handle gone. It had three blades, but one was broken. If you soaked it in oil and sanded away the rust and loosened it up again, the old knife would have a few years left in it. I wondered just

I have an extensive collection of old magazines and I thought some readers might enjoy this ancient story on turkey hunting. It was entitled “The Gentle Art of Turkey Hunting” and appeared in a1914 magazine called Forest and Stream. “The wild turkey is probably the wariest bird in the woods. His hearing is the keenest,

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) recently collaborated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to enhance fish habitat in Stockton Lake. This effort took place in the northwest corner of the lake out of the Stockton boat ramp. Crews replenished 14 existing brush piles and built 45 new ones, which took approximately 75

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660-781-8020 Spoonbilling is slow because the river is not running. Catfshing is good on throw lines and rod and reel. They are catching blue cats. I haven’t heard of any flatheads.. The limit on blue cats is 10, the limit on flatheads is five. There’s

Cut them down, get free native tree Have invasive Callery (Bradford) pear trees? Cut them down and get a free native tree! The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is partnering with the Missouri Invasive Plant Council (MoIP), the Missouri Community Forestry Council, Magnificent Missouri, Forrest Keeling Nursery, Forest ReLeaf of Missouri, and the Missouri Prairie

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reminds Missouri hunters and anglers that related annual permits expire at the end of February, including 2025 permits for small game, fishing, trout fishing, and combination hunting and fishing. Annual permits are available for purchase. Permits for spring turkey hunting and some other upcoming hunting seasons will be available

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660-781-8020 Spoonbilling is good. An 80 is the biggest I’ve weighed. Blue cats and flatheads are biting on throw lines.The limit on blue cats is 10, the limit on flatheads is five. There’s a slot limit on blues cats. The river is in is banks

Recent efforts increased shoreline fishing opportunities and replenished existing brush piles. Fish are enjoying new habitat after state and federal officials strategically placed trees and brush piles at Table Rock Lake. Brush piles provide good spawning habitat in spring for fish and shelter for smaller fish hiding from predators. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC)

Dennis Whiteside is a float-fishing guide who travels down a dozen or more streams across the Ozarks of Missouri each year, through all seasons. He also is someone very knowledgeable about wild turkeys and he reports on what he sees through a survey that he turns in regularly to the state’s Department of Conservation. “I’ve