Outdoors

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

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reminds citizens to dispose of waste responsibly when cleaning fish. Several nuisance reports at Wigwam School Access at the Lake of the Ozarks have prompted MDC to offer a larger dumpster for collection of waste. Any additional fish-cleaning waste should be deposited in deep water, where it cannot end

Missouri turkey hunters can expect a challenging spring season according to the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC). The spring turkey hunting season starts with a youth-only weekend April 6-7. The regular spring season runs April 15 through May 5. Although the good hatches of 2011, 2012, and 2014 helped bolster turkey numbers in much of

As Missourians begin to head outdoors during the long-awaited spring season, they may encounter a variety of newborn animals. Though the young wildlife can pull on the heartstrings, and oftentimes appears to be abandoned, that’s usually not the case. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reminds residents to avoid interfering with newborn or young animals

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is offering its annual cost-share grants to assist government entities and non-profit groups with the management, improvement, and conservation of trees and forests on public land. The Tree Resource Improvement and Maintenance (TRIM) cost-share grants can help communities fund tree inventories, removal or pruning of hazardous trees, tree planting,

For Truman Lake, Lake of the Ozarks and the Osage River (below Bagnell Dam). Water temperatures are about the same as last week.  Snaggers have been having success on Truman Lake and lower Lake of the Ozarks. With the increase in flow on Truman the fish are moving up the Osage and some have gone

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports Brian Rehmeier of Augusta became the most recent record-breaking angler in Missouri when he snagged a gizzard shad on Bigelow Creek in St. Charles County. The new “alternative method” record fish caught by Rehmeier on March 20 weighed 2 pounds, 10 ounces with a length of 17.9 inches.

American Bass Anglers, Division 126 will hold a qualifying tournament Saturday, April 13 on Stockton Lake launching out of Old State Park. Director Mike Dill will be at the ramp to take registration at 5 a.m. Mandatory briefing will begin at 6 a.m. followed by partner draw and boat position. Fishing hours will be 6:30-3.

According to preliminary data from Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), young turkey hunters harvested 2,540 turkeys during the 2019 spring youth season, April 6 and 7. Top harvest counties were Franklin with 61 turkeys harvested, Laclede with 56 and Texas with 52. Warm weather and sunny skies helped increase this year’s youth-weekend harvest over last

In my new book “Recollections of an Old-Fashioned Angler” I begin by writing about going trotlining on the river with my dad. I was only 6 or 7 years old and I sat there in the old wooden johnboat watching him run that line, which was lunging in his hands. Then I caught a glimpse