Thread: Missouri rainbow stockers

Seems the spot we landed is a right popular "public trout" destination in Missouri . No clue was me and found out they were in numbers and biting like crazy right off a public fishing dock !
Now was it difficult to ketch them , not so much is the word , they bit well the 3 times I visited and really liked a crappie magnet with a gulp egg above it. the locals' rigged it up to look like a Berkley mousetail and them trout were like other stockers as they would flat out swallow the thing before you realize they were biting it !
of course I wasnt rigged for stocker trout , but it is possible to get them to bite a crappie jig with a crappie nibble on it , just saying
they ran decent size for the most part and not many really smalls in the bunch and a limit there is 4 and you could limit out pretty easily with lil to no high end skills for trout .
Sort of boring but yet relaxing trout fishing is how they do it, throw it way out there , set the rod down , sit on a bench and wait for a bite , any rod and reel set up with a drop shot and the right bait would get bit nicely .
It was similar to ketchn catfish best I can tell ya . Silly me had no idea when we went there that the "lake" was part of the white river where it goes north from Arkansas into Missouri before it heads back south ....
great family place to visit no doubt , good times
3 one night went to a small dinner party and gave up the rest to the river/lake or whoever wanted them , the place is what seems to be a forgotten spot in time, heard tell back in the 70 eez it was super popular local destination for recreation , and they dammed off the river and it went south as a spot to hang around at that time for anything other than trout ketchn .
p.s. I was pretty sure I could find a crappie under that dock and to be sure not only did I not find one, was told by a local fella that he only seen maybe 4 in that area in his entire life there and that was ONLY in late March.....