Why would there be a decline below Truman dam? There is no bowfishing from the bouys to the dam. You can look over at the spillway and see thousands of common carp and buffalo. When the buffalo spawned last month you could count tens of thousands of fish on the flats ranging from 5-50+ lbs.
Doesn’t Missouri have a limit on buffalo? Saw another article where a buffalo taken from just across the state line that was a lot bigger than the one aged in this article and it was only 25 years old.