Squirrels and smallmouth bass make Missouri a great place to hunt and fish.
JEFFERSON CITY–Whether your taste in outdoor activities runs toward fishing or hunting, May 25 is a day to mark on your calendar.
Missouri’s hunting season for gray and fox squirrels opens May 25 and runs through Feb. 15, 2014. Legal methods include rifles, shotguns, [...]

Wet those lines, and sharpen up your aim.
According to a story reported on KY3-TV Springfield, bass fishing, target shooting, bowling and chess were all added to the ranks of Missouri high school sanctioned activities starting in the next school year.
The new activities passed by the following votes:
Bass Fishing: 275 to 247
Target Shooting: 264 to [...]

More than 150,000 votes were cast in online survey celebrating Missouri’s ‘Year of the Trout’
JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Jay Nixon today announced that Roaring River State Park near Cassville has been selected by Missourians, through an online poll on Missouri’s state website, MO.gov, as their favorite state park for trout fishing. Out of more [...]

River Hills Traveler would like to thank the quick eye of Jim Britton of Festus, for correctly identifying the large fish being held by Mike Jones on page 12 of the April Traveler as a largemouth bass.
Since the article is about Jones’ upcoming Catch-Photo-Release summer long smallmouth tournament, and [...]

Undercover investigation leads to arrests and/or citations of more than 100 suspects.
(MDC News Release.)

According to a January report from Patricia Herman, in the January 24 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Field notes, several species of Asian, silver and bighead carp are dying on the Osage River. Fish and Wildlife officials are not sure why:
The report is filed at http://www.fws.gov/fieldnotes/regmap.cfm?arskey=33499. The text follows:
Missouri residents utilize their water [...]

By Jo Schaper
Photos by Howard Helgenberg
My phone rang on Thursday morning February 28.
“Hi, Howard, ” I said.
“I’ve got a call to make in Sullivan, and then I’m headed for fishing,” he said.
” Are you in the office? I just passed the St. Clair exit. Can I stop by the office for a few [...]

Sitting in front of a crackling fire tops the list of places to spend a gray winter day for many Missourians. But if you are smitten with the idea of reeling in shimmering, feisty, delicious trout, there is no better place to greet a wintry sunrise than Missouri’s four trout parks.
arch 1 marks the opening [...]

By Jo Schaper
Since late last October, the grotto sculpin, a three to four inch long fish partially adapted to live underground, and found only under parts of Perry County have caused controversy amongst local residents, cavers who frequent the associated caves, local businessmen and economic development officials.
Briefly, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service visited Perryville, [...]

By Candice Davis
Posted by Candice Davis (more on the results of the MDC angler survey at http://www.riverhillstraveler.com/2010SMBRBSurvey.pdf and the February 2013 Traveler.
WEST PLAINS, Mo. – The smallmouth bass is one of Missouri’s most popular game fish, and biologists continue to learn more about the species to help manage its habitat and regulate harvest.
Biologists from the [...]