You should come by for the Bade Memorial. Urban fly fishing tourney on Jefferson Lake in Forest Park. Top prize (only prize) is a warm Stag 40oz or a warm 12 pack of Natty Light , plus your name wood burned on the traveling trophy that resides at Hargrove’s fly shop. You’re welcome to travel with it to bars and such, but it draws attention in a different way. It is not the Stanley Cup.
They stock a bunch of lakes on the St. Louis side. Allot of them are C&R until Feb 1st, and they get fished out quickly after that. Jefferson Lake by Big Barnes gets a bunch and its safe to fish there. I'd pack a side arm if I wanted to fish any of the 4 lakes they stock trout north of Page Blvd. No worries anywhere else.
Agree with Al, rusty crawfish were sold at bait shops and replaced local crawfish populations in allot of areas. Don’t transport live bait. Catch it were your gonna use it, if you use it. Have the kids cast net or set a minnow jar, flip rocks for craws, worm rod some crawlers. It’s fun!
Muddy water inflows bring food and warmth. I usually have a couple dozen dead worms in the bottom of my inground pool every time we get a good soaking rain. Lots of them get washed down stream.
Hunting private land is expensive, but it beats standing in line or dealing with the masses of country ghetto trash that forks up almost everything in this state. Big city pecker heads are easier to deal with, they usually arent on meth or fentanyl.
Paying to hunt or fish in MO as a resident is a sore spot for me. Hunting & fishing licenses should be FREE for MO residents IMO. MDC does not need that money. They make plenty from the 1/8th cent sales tax and that revenue stream goes up every year. OOS'ers should pay through the nose. Whatever their state charges a MO resident to hunt or fish in their home state. Reciprocity seem fair.
I’ve never been a fan of Bennet, but Charlie Reading has always been fun to chat with. Think we have stayed at Rivers Edge & HVO 5-6 times with our camper in the past 15 years and we have never fished IN the park. Have not fished Montauk in 30 years either, but we camp there.
There is plenty of good fishing out in Montana, Wyoming, & Idaho but trout fishing is easy and the fish are small. Tarpon & Snook are a heck of allot more fun! Alaska should be on your list too. The rainbows and Grayling are the stars of the show up there. Do a salmon, and a halibut trip to fill a freezer.
Need a Speck Call? I do not use this one. Redbone Poly. I also have 2 doz DB speck silos and 2.5 doz DB Canada Silos I want to move. Brand new decoys. Will do $50 on the call shipped TYD. Decoys have a DB carry bag, will do $200 on the decoys and bag. Pickup in STL or take me goose hunting if you want delivery.