Missouri 2008 Official Vacation Planner - (Page 126) SOUTHEAST Fishing and Hunting Trout season at Montauk State Park, Dent County MO Good populations of Canada geese, lesser snow geese and ducks grace the Southeast Region, especially where wetlands border harvested farm fields. Though uncommon in the Ozark Mountains, this habitat is expanding in Missouri’s Bootheel where rice farming and restored wetlands annually attract higher numbers of migrating waterfowl. The Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, near Puxico, pioneered this type of habitat management in the Southeast. The turkey population in the open farmlands of deep southeast Missouri is relatively smaller than elsewhere in Missouri, but white-tailed deer and small game are common in every county. Visit upper Meramec in Crawford www.missouriconservation. County has a justified smallVA R I E T Y org for comprehensive mouth reputation. Indeed, information. bass tempt fishers in many ENTICES THE Lake Wappapello, south Missouri streams, SPORTING POPUnorth of Poplar including the Current, Bluff, is all about Eleven Point and St. L AT I O N H E R E — white bass, crappie, Francis. Largemouth bluegill, largeare king at Clearwater DUCKS, GEESE AND mouth bass and Lake in Wayne County. W H I T E - TA I L E D D E E R ; catfish. Smallmouth The Southern Missouri bass are plentiful in Catfish Co. in Neelyville B A S S , C AT F I S H , the Gasconade and and WindRush Farms in Big Piney rivers, two Cook Station are two priTROUT AND fine float streams in Phelps vate lakes in the region. MORE. and Texas counties. The As in the Southwest Region, trout teem in spring-fed streams and floatable rivers of the Southeast. Two popular trout parks, Maramec Spring Park near St. James and Montauk State Park, south of Salem, are stocked daily in season. Winter trout fishing is popular at Rotary Lake in Jackson. See pages 128–129 for fishing opportunities at state parks. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Left: Lake Wappapello, Wayne County 126 Missouri Vacation Planner 2008 http://www.missouriconservation.org http://www.missouriconservation.org
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