6th Annual Smithville F.I.S.H Day

Volunteers needed for 6th Annual FISH Day (Friends Involved with Smithville Habitat) at Smithville Lake. March 30th ,2017. We will be focusing on the area around Sailboat Cove this year from 9 am until we run out of trees. Registration begins at 9 am at the Smithville Lake Sailboat Cove parking lot, which is located just West of Paradise, MO. We will have 4 habitat barges installing huge hardwood brushpiles in the lake. Bring a pair of gloves and a strong back! Last year we were able to put in over 100 brushpiles in 1 day! Please contact me and let me know if you are interested in helping out.

Thanks - Eric Dennis - Fisheries Management Biologist Smithville Lake

Missed this last year, but should be able to make this one. Hope the weather cooperates.

Why is this done during the week?

Glad to see some brush put in sailboat cove agai. I did well there a couple years ago, but they have been rotting down the last year.

Will try to be there.

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Originally Posted by ridealong

Why is this done during the week?

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They use to do them on Saturdays up until last year, not really sure why they switched to the middle of the week. Figured this year it was a good excuse to take a day off work.

Are there any tools that I could bring that would be useful like branch clippers, fencing tool, rope, knife, etc. ?

Pliers might be handy, PFD and a rain suit the way the forecast looks.

Due to the heavy rain Wednesday and rainy forecast for Thursday March 30th, we are postponing Smithville FISH Day to Friday March 31st. Registration will be 9 am at Sailboat Cove. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks

Eric Dennis
Fisheries Management Biologist
Missouri Department of Conservation
816-271-3100

Thanks to Clay Co. Parks, MDC, Corps of Engineers, and all of the volunteers. I!m sure all of us will see the rewards from this project. This was my 4th year, and it was great to see the turnout.

Was fun.

Glad to hear it went well. I had Thurs. off then they moved to Fri., had to work, maybe next year.

Anybody get a count on the number placed?

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Originally Posted by wolfhnd

Anybody get a count on the number placed?

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I heard they had about 70 trees cut, and we got all of them placed. Not only trees were planted this year, tho. In addition a lot of pvc structures were placed. Can't wait to see how those do. There were about 50 volunteers.

I would like to thank everyone that helped out with Smithville's 6th Annual FISH Day. The weather finally gave us an opening and we made the best of it. We had a great turnout with over 50 volunteers showing up to help this year, even after we had to reschedule!

We had 4 habitat barges running and we went through 100+ trees that we turned into approximately 60 brushpiles. Once I get all the GPS units back, I can download all the points and give everyone the exact number of brushpiles installed.

Thanks again to everyone that helped out! I really do appreciate it! If anyone has any good pictures please share.