ShareBy Jo Schaper
I don’t have land at Lake of the Ozarks. Like many other Missourians, though, I’ve been inculcated from school onward with the idea that the land the lake occupies was purchased by Union Electric Company in the late 1920s, and that land and the dam, which closed in 1931, are private property, [...]

ShareBy Bill Graham, MDC
KANSAS CITY Mo — Catfish noodling, or hand-fishing, is illegal due to potential harm to fisheries. But the method also prompts junk to be tossed into public lakes as accessories.
Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) agents in recent weeks pulled 142 noodling boxes or containers from Truman Lake. Agents found water heaters, pipes, [...]

ShareOver this past weekend, Traveler staff attended the annual meeting of the Missouri Outdoor Communicators at Bucksaw Resort and Marina, about halfway between Warsaw and Clinton, Mo., on the north shore of Truman Lake in west central Missouri.
Along with fishing, fellowship and organization business, came a plea for some publicity for the 23rd annual [...]

ShareMissouri’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
fishPaddlefish season opens March 15 and runs through April 30. Snaggers use heavy fishing rods, lead weights and oversized treble hooks to snag fish that can tip the scales at [...]