Highly Recommend reaching out to Augie @ Missour Fly Life Guide Co
Couldn't ask for a better guy and the dude flat out knows the Meramec smallmouth program
Bryan and Steph will take care of you at Sunburst, July probably not the best time to be trout fishing NFOW
Just Spencer with Eleven Point Fly Fishing https://www.elevenpointflyfishing.com/ would be a good outlet for a GUIDED FLOAT on the 11 Point
Good Luck
You could also consider staying at Lilleys Landing and getting a guide through them, renting a boat or wade fishing below that dam
1-Youd avoid that chaos that is a trout park
2- Taneycomo is a much better fishery
Good Luck!
I reached out to the Invasive species biologist in Arkansas a while back. Not much that I know of in Missouri but Arkansas has an established population in the white river system.
I am intending to make a journey down that way sometime late spring early summer to see if I can get my hands on one
A couple years ago I was duck hunting on the Big River and found a fireman's O2 tank and harness wrapped around a floating tree. When I went to grab it thought for sure I was about to pull up something else.
Turns out it was stolen from the Cuba Volunteer fire dept along with a bunch of other stuff and must have been ditched.