Outdoors

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announces that Cesar Rodriguez of Carthage is now the state record-holder for hybrid-striped-bass after catching a 21-pound, 11-ounce fish at Lake of the Ozarks May 19. Rodriguez used the pole-and-line method. Though the fish breaks Missouri’s previous hybrid-striped-bass record of a 20-pound, 8-ounce fish, set in 1986 at the

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Fisheries management biologists with the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) confirm an angler caught a Northern snakehead from a borrow ditch within the St. Francis River levees in Dunklin County. The fish was caught on April 25. According to biologists, a Northern snakehead population was discovered in eastern Arkansas waterways in 2008, so they believed

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) congratulates Joshua Lee of Bernie on his record-breaking 76-pound black buffalo shot in Stoddard County. Lee shot the whopper of a fish while bowfishing at Duck Creek Conservation Area Pool 1 April 21. The previous record weighed 74-pounds. MDC staff verified the fish’s weight using a certified scale in

Saturday’s severe thunderstorm warning for Stockton Lake prompted American Bass Anglers three o’clock weigh-in to move quickly. Ten anglers brought 5-fish limits to the scales. Topping the leaderboard was Eric Craft with 12.77 lbs. Second place went to Lucas Fornelli with 11.12lbs; 3rd place was Scott Tassi with 10.19. Fornelli took Big Bass with a

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) congratulates Isaac Bohm, 13, of Huntsville, on catching the first state-record yellow perch taken by alternative methods. Bohm caught the fish at a private pond in Randolph County May 11 using a trotline. Weighing in at 10-ounces, it is the first yellow perch that has met the minimum weight

MDC reports 2,546 birds harvested during spring youth season and 36,231 birds harvested during regular spring turkey season. Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that turkey hunters checked 36,231 birds during Missouri’s 2019 regular spring turkey season, April 15 through May 5. Top harvest counties were Franklin with 785 birds checked,

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports that counts of Missouri’s endangered prairie-chickens on spring leks, or mating grounds, remain dangerously low. In April, biologists checked leks in the state’s two remaining geographies that have prairie chickens. A hopeful finding is that prairie-chicken numbers held steady this spring at leks on or near The Nature

For Truman Lake, Lake of the Ozarks and the Osage River (below Bagnell Dam). Not much has changed from last week. Water temperatures are slowly getting warmer and there is still flow. Truman Lake water levels are coming down and flows are dropping too. They are releasing water from both Truman and Bagnell dams, so

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports 41 new positive test results for chronic wasting disease (CWD) have been confirmed following its sampling and testing of more than 32,000 free-ranging Missouri deer during its 2018-2019 disease-surveillance efforts. The 41 new positive test results bring Missouri’s total CWD defections to 116 since 2012. The new positives