Find out where the fish are biting – and on what.
Remembering some past fishing trips – and catches – that happened way too long ago.
Discussing owls, mad-deer disease and swap meets.
Fishermen — or women — cast your reels. March 1 is almost here, and with that comes trout fishing season. Anglers will get out their rods and reels at one of three Missouri state parks, including Bennett Spring State Park near Lebanon, for the opening day of trout fishing season.
The Missouri Department of Natural resources expects a good turnout for this year, as many anglers will turn the event into a three-day fishing weekend.
Darrell Taylor's fishing report for Lake of the Ozarks
You don’t have to be a great walleye fisherman to fish for walleye. I do it every year about this time and catch very few of them. I catch lots of them in Canada, but not so many in the Ozarks.
The winter drawdown is underway as AmerenUE prepares to drop the water level on Lake of the Ozarks to make way for spring rains.
As anticipated, the lake level will be steadily declining from now through April before coming back up to full pool of 660 feet above sea level by the summer boating season.
Darrell Taylor's fishing report for Lake of the Ozarks
Sometimes when you are on an Ozark river, you can almost hear it talk to you. Nothing is more alive than a flowing stream. Within its great lithe body, dwell the little green herons and kingfishers, the smallmouth and rock bass, the mink and beaver, and the giant white sycamores.
Once confined to mainly the western plains, this shy, solitary canine is now found throughout the United States. Frequently heard but rarely seen, coyotes have adapted well to ever-increasing human encroachment, allowing them to thrive. While the coyote’s tenacious adaptability inspires admiration in some, this tenacity also draws the ire of others in response to the coyote’s nuisance behavior.
Darrell Taylor's fishing report for Lake of the Ozarks.
Hibernation is a strange thing, and as I observe nature more and more I realize what a tremendously complex, unfathomable phenomenon it is in its entirety. You can’t begin to understand nature, and wild things, in any kind of totalness. It is beyond the greatest mind, the most devoted student.
Missouri Master Naturalist program is a community-based, adult natural resource education and volunteer program
Darrell Taylor's fishing report for Lake of the Ozarks.
What it sounds like is....well, imagine five little dogs hung up in an electric fence, being mauled by a bear! That’s a little what it sounds like, when a pack of beagles is lined out on the trail of a cottontail rabbit.
Tennessee angler, Charlie Nuckols, often saw bass suspended on his depthfinder near bluffs and steep shorelines of the highland reservoirs in his home state, but pondered for years on how to catch them.
Donating to the Missouri state parks division just got easier this week as the Department of Natural Resources went live Wednesday with a new page on their Web site.
While accepting donations is not a new thing to the parks division, DNR Communications Director Judd Slivka said the Internet will expedite the process.
"We've always given people the option to donate to individual parks, but they would have to be at the park to donate," he said. "No longer are the donations place-bound."
The annual Eagle Days weekend was held Jan. 9-10 at various areas around the lake. Lake dwellers turned out — and looked up — for a chance to see some of these birds of prey.
