Missouri’s paddlefish snagging season likely will get off to a slow start this year, but when the action picks up, anglers will find plenty of legal fish.
Paddlefish season opens March 15 and runs through April 30. Snaggers use heavy fishing rods, hefty lead weights and oversized treble hooks to snag fish that can tip the scales at well over 100 pounds. The paddlefish itself is a holdover…[more]
Youth involved in FFA and agricultural classes at Valiant Schools recently teamed up with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and the Pushmataha County Sportsmen’s Club to give a southeast Oklahoma fishery a boost.
The students constructed artificial fish attractors called spider blocks that can provide areas of concentrated fish for anglers to catch. The blocks consist of plastic tubing attached to concrete blocks that serve…[more]
Recent flooding of the Lower Mountain Fork River’s Lost Creek trout fishing area did damage to the fishery, but anglers came to the rescue by funding a renovation that should wrap up in March.
Lost Creek is a stretch of pristine stream in Beavers Bend State Park that makes up part of the Lower Mountain Fork River year-round trout fishery. The quarter-mile stretch was completed in…[more]
The average winning weight at Oklahoma bass fishing tournaments in 2009 was 14.19 lbs., the highest on record according to the most recent Oklahoma Bass Tournaments Report from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. The report is now available at wildlifedepartment.com.
The Wildlife Department has been collecting standardized statewide data on competitive bass fishing for 16 years, and biologists with the Wildlife Department say the success…[more]
Opening day of Missouri’s four trout parks always involves excited anglers and hungry rainbow trout. New features at this year’s event include enhanced fish habitat and improved hatchery facilities.
For more than 70 years, Missourians have been celebrating the arrival – or at least the anticipation – of spring by turning out in large numbers at trout parks on March 1. Although the parks remain open year-round, anglers…[more]
A gigging trip on the Niangua River in Dallas County produced Missouri’s first state-record white sucker in the alternative methods category.
Fifteen-year-old Joshua Lee Vance of Bolivar gigged the 4-pound, 5-ounce fish around 8:30 p.m. Jan. 19, setting Missouri’s first state fishing record of the year. The fish was 21.25 inches long
The Missouri Department of Conservation maintains fishing records in two categories – pole and…[more]
When winter begins to wane, some Arkansas fishermen get ready. They know that walleye time is near.
You’ll get some arguments, of course, but many Arkansans regard walleye as the finest table fare of any fish found in the state. Walleye are found in many locations but not nearly to the extent of black bass, crappie, bream and catfish.
Some of the walleye waters include Greers…[more]
Noodling is not for the fainthearted. Noodlers use their bare hands to catch large catfish.
It is mainly practiced by rural men in blue-collar jobs, but that doesn’t mean that some women don’t try their hand at it, said Mary Grigsby, University of Missouri rural sociologist.
Grigsby says that rural women use noodling not so much as a sport but as a way to show their…[more]
Last fall, I got a chance to hike the trail to Big Bluff in the Ponca Wilderness Area in northern Arkansas. Despite living in the Ozarks for many years, it was my first venture along trails in the upper Buffalo River region, but it will certainly not be my last visit.
There are incredible mountains in this part of the state, some of the tallest in Arkansas and…[more]
Over the next three months, more than 40,000 rainbow trout will be stocked at the Lower Mountain Fork River in southeast Oklahoma thanks to six additional loads of fish that that will be released into the river. Regular bi-weekly stockings also will continue.
While one of the extra trout stockings took place Jan. 13, five others are scheduled for Jan. 27, Feb. 10 & 24 and…[more]
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