Fishyleaks

[Andrew324]

Thought I would post this in this section as well as Crane. Lots of good historical fisheries reports. I believe I made all the documents public for your viewing pleasure:

MDC Fisheries Reports, Stocking Records, Reproduction Studies, Robert Behnke

Contains much information on wild trout in Missouri.

[drew03cmc]

Thank you Andy. That is amazing! I saved all of the PDFs.

[Addicted to Creeks]

good info, best thread title ever tho

[Andrew324]

good info, best thread title ever tho

Yes I thought that myself. Wish I could leak fishy information more often, but graduate school and the outdoor rec program here at MSU keep me rather busy, but in my spare time I chase wild bows in small creeks in Southwest Missouri. Two other tools I use to zero in on areas are:

Google Maps - I use it to pinpoint and create my own maps, so that they can be viewed on:

Google Earth - the function on Earth where you can view multiple years of aerial photos helps (especially the ones where the photos were taken when there were no leaves on the trees). Which all in turn can be viewed on my Iphone (which I carry fishing).

And the USGS Map Locator/Store - I download quadrangles from here to pinpoint areas of troutness indicated by the Spencer studies.

Hope this helps any other wild trout fans!

[Dirtworm]

That sounds great.... I understand none of those fancy google earth machinations but the trout hunting is enviable. God Bless, happy hunting.

[Andrew324]

That sounds great.... I understand none of those fancy google earth machinations but the trout hunting is enviable. God Bless, happy hunting.

I see your interests include geocaching - that's pretty much all that the Google software does. I believe you can drop pinpoints by latitude & longitude. The Google earth program (free for download, not the Earth feature on google maps) just contains all the years of past aerial photos, and a lot of other cool stuff (weather, the moon, mars, etc). Check it out!