Missouri River Fishing Spot
- Elevation: 1006'
- Last Modified By: vinny60 on 09/08/09 10:14 PM
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Anglers with either a valid Kansas or Missouri fishing license may fish any flowing portion and backwaters of the Missouri River and any oxbow lake through which the river flows.They may fish from and attach any legal fishing equipment to the land adjoining these waters. Limitations: Tributaries of the Missouri may not be fished without a valid fishing license from the state through which the tributary flows. If any law or regulation governing fishing in the Missouri River is different from the corresponding law or regulation in the state for which the angler has a license, the more restrictive state’s law or regulation will apply. Each angler must keep all legally caught fish restrained separately from any other angler. Bow and arrow or crossbow with a barbed head and a line attached are legal only from sunrise to midnight. Each angler may use three fishing lines. In addition, each angler may use one trotline with no more than 25 hooks OR eight setlines with no more than two hooks each. LENGTH LIMITS Black Bass: 12-inch minimum Paddlefish: 24-inch minimum DAILY CREEL LIMITS Black Bass: 5 Channel and blue catfish (single species or in combination): 10 Crappie: 30 Flathead catfish: 5 Paddlefish: 2
Missouri River Description
The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River and the longest river in the United States. The Missouri begins at the confluence of the Madison, Jefferson, and Gallatin rivers in Montana, and flows through its valley south and east into the Mississippi north of St. Louis, Missouri. At 2,341 mi (3,767 km) in length, it drains about one-sixth of the North American continent. The headwaters of the Missouri are in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, near the small town of Three Forks, rising in the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin rivers. The longest headwaters stream, and thus the Missouri's hydrologic source, likely begins at Brower's Spring, which flows to the Jefferson by way of several other named streams.[7] From the confluence of its main tributaries near the city of Three Forks, the Missouri flows north through mountainous canyons, emerging from the mountains near Great Falls, where a large cataract historically marked the navigable limit of the river. It flows east across the plains of Montana into North Dakota, then turns southeast, flowing into South Dakota, and along the north and eastern edge of Nebraska, forming part of its border with South Dakota and all of its border with Iowa, flowing past Sioux City and Omaha. It forms the entire boundary between Nebraska and Missouri, and part of the boundary between Missouri and Kansas. At Kansas City, it turns generally eastward, flowing across Missouri where it joins the Mississippi just north of St. Louis. The junction of the Missouri and Kansas (Kaw) Rivers has been a geographic focal point for many centuries. This region represents a major transition in ecological zones, from the hardwood forest of the east, into the prairie grassland to the west. To the east the climate is humid; westward it is increasingly dry. Northward climate is dominated by long, cold winters, whereas climate to the south is known for long, hot summers. Thus, this geographic vicinity has a combination of many ecological and climatic elements. It supports a particularly rich flora and fauna.