Trout Fishing in Missouri?
You better believe it!
Missouri provides great opportunities for the trout angler:
- four trout parks located at large springs with
hatchery or rearing facilities - 120 miles of spring-fed, cold-water trout streams
managed by the Conservation Department - Lake Taneycomo, near Branson
- the winter trout areas of St. Louis, Kansas
City, Columbia, Jackson, Jefferson City and Mexico
Various types of waters and management, provide different fishing experiences for the angler:
- heavily stocked trout parks
- floatable rivers with stocked trout
- small, wadable streams with wild trout
- year-round fishing with catch-and-release
- winter trout fishing for St. Louis, Kansas City,
Columbia, Jackson, Jefferson City and Mexico - nearly 2 million trout, produced at Conservation
Department hatcheries, stocked each year in Missouri
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Paying for Trout
In 1937, the first commissioners of the Department of Conservation decided that trout anglers should “pay their own way” since trout are not native to Missouri and are expensive to produce. Money from the sale of daily tags and trout permits helps balance the cost of raising trout. Each year about a half million daily tags and annual trout permits are purchased statewide.
All anglers support fisheries management through fishing-related purchases. The Sport Fish Restoration Act places a federal tax on fishing equipment and boat fuel. The Missouri Conservation Sales Tax, approved by voters in 1976, is a 1/8 of one-percent general sales tax dedicated to funding statewide conservation efforts.
Funds provided by the Sport Fish Restoration Act and the Missouri Conservation Sales Tax pay for kids' fishing programs, Stream Team volunteer workshops, fish hatcheries and fisheries management.
Get your free Missouri Trout Fishing map.
To order your copy (and to find other free MDC publications), download the Free
Publications brochure and mail your request for publication FIS210 to:
Missouri Department of Conservation
P.O. Box 180
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180
