PURPOSE: This amendment reduces the minimum length limit from fifteen (15) inches to twelve (12) inches for legal take of Spotted Bass at Table Rock Lake.
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Title 3 – Department of Conservation
Division 10 – Conservation Commission
Chapter 6—Wildlife Code: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Proposed Amendment
Proposed Amendment
(4) Length Limits.
(B) Impoundments: No length limits, except:
1. All black bass less than fifteen inches (15") in total length must be returned to the water unharmed immediately after being caught from Blue Springs Lake, Long Branch Lake, Longview Lake, Mark Twain Lake, Smithville Lake, [Table Rock Lake,] or Thomas Hill Reservoir.
2. All black bass less than thirteen inches (13") in total length must be returned to the water unharmed immediately after being caught from Pomme de Terre Lake.
3. All black bass less than twelve inches (12") in total length must be returned to the water unharmed immediately after being caught from the Clarence Cannon Reregulation Pool (below Mark Twain Lake dam).
4. All largemouth bass and smallmouth bass less than fifteen inches (15") and all spotted (Kentucky) bass less than twelve inches (12") in total length must be returned to the water unharmed immediately after being caught from Bull Shoals Lake, Lake of the Ozarks, Norfork Lake, Stockton Lake, Table Rock Lake, or Truman Lake.
AUTHORITY: sections 40 and 45 of Art. IV, Mo. Const. and section 252.040, RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed June 13, 1994, effective Jan. 1, 1995. For intervening history, please consult the Code of State Regulations. Amended: Filed October 3, 2025.
PUBLIC ENTITY COST: This proposed amendment will not cost state agencies or political subdivisions more than five hundred dollars ($500) in the aggregate.
PRIVATE ENTITY COST: This proposed amendment will not cost private entities more than five hundred dollars ($500) in the aggregate.
NOTICE TO SUBMIT COMMENTS: Anyone may file a statement in support of or in opposition to this proposed amendment with Regulations Committee Chairman, Department of Conservation, P.O. Box 180, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180, or via the department’s website at https://short.mdc.mo.gov/Z49. To be considered, comments must be received within thirty (30) days after publication of this notice in the Missouri Register. No public hearing is scheduled.