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Lee’s Summit, Mo. – Two trophy crappie topping three pounds were nice, but angler Lindsay Cundiff believes more big ones swim in the same waters. Cundiff caught the two whopper crappie in early February from lakes at the Missouri Department of Conservation's (MDC) James A. Reed Memorial Wildlife Area.
This April, he’s back on the banks casting jigs and hoping for another lunker crappie.
PUXICO, Mo. – A new state record bowfin was taken by bow at Duck Creek Conservation Area (CA) according to the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC). Eric Whitehead of Puxico shot the state record bowfin while bow fishing Friday, March 8. The record was just recently certified by MDC. Whitehead also holds the continued spotted gar record in Missouri.
“Eric crushed the old record by two pounds,” said Paul Cieslewicz, MDC fisheries management biologist who certified the record fish.
CARTER COUNTY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will close the refuge portion of Peck Ranch Conservation Area to turkey hunting to permit the third stage of the Department’s elk restoration project. Hunters who normally hunt on the area’s wildlife refuge portion will need to make alternate plans for the 2013 spring turkey season. The refuge will be closed from April 1 until July 1.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Many homeowners are discovering the benefits of landscaping with native plants. Plants that are naturally adapted to their surroundings tend to be less dependent on pesticides and watering hoses and, at the same time, friendlier to butterflies, songbirds and other local wildlife.
