New 2019 brush pile files for Stockton

[jbeenemd]

I checked the MDC site for the 2019 brush pile ( fish attractor ) data files. They put up a new file for Stockton Lake. the date on the file is 7-22-2019. It tried opening it up and there looks to be only one brush pile location.  The first hint was that the file was only 1000 bytes which I believe is about the smallest file that you can create in Windows.  I talked with the folks at the MDC here in Springfield on Friday. They are running this up the chain to find out what went wrong and see if they can get the latest brush pile data file for us. Some of the other files are also very small. Maybe the MDC did not put any brush piles in this year due to high water levels. But I thought that these were cumulative data files. So the old brush piles should be there too??? 

Jackie

[jbeenemd]

Well, I did a little more research on the MDC site.  Looked at the PDF file of the map of the brush files.  The map is interactive in that you can click on the brush file icon and it will have a pop-up to let you see when it was placed and what it is composed of.  I found several that are labeled as 2019. So the MDC did in fact place more brush piles in Stockton.  Guess that we will have to wait for an updated file for our "fish finders".  An alternative but very time consuming is to manually add them from the map when you find one placed this year. I will add a few in the area where I fish most often.

Jackie

[zarraspook]

Can you post the link to the map that you are talking about ??  I have been going in circles for a couple of weeks and can't find a map with dates on it..

Thanks..🤔

[jbeenemd]

This is an interactive map. Zoom in on Stockton Lake. It will show you the locations of the brush piles. What I did was to look at the ones in the areas that I fish. Several were new ones or at least the date was listed as 2019. Click on the icon and it will open up and give you the brush pile ID and what it is composed of. Seems that they are all cedar. It also gives a year, which I assume is when they were placed.  I used EASY GPS to add the locations in. Saved it to a .gpx file. Then for Humminbird you need to convert to a .hwr file with another program. I am not on my home laptop. Can't remember the name of the other program that I used. At any rate, there were brush piles labeled as 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2019. I did put a different color icon for each years brush pile.  Once I get my boat fixed to be able to fish then will try to see how the new piles compare to those older ones. Any idea how long it takes cedar pile to decompose?

https://mdcgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=aa720aaaf06b49269b355b5a6e049d28

[straw hat]

Funny, I have been using this one from the MDC and it does not list any new brush piles for 2019.

https://huntfish.mdc.mo.gov/fishing/where-fish/fish-attractor-pdf-maps

I am familiar with your link as well but it used to list the brush piles in order by number with details including date if you clicked on legend. Now clicking on legend doesn't do anything.