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Volunteers needed for the 11th Annual Smithville FISH Day (Friends Improving Smithville Habitat). March 28th, 2023. We will be focusing on the Camp Branch this year. Registration begins at 9am in the...

Volunteers needed for the 10th Annual Smithville FISH Day (Friends Improving Smithville Habitat). March 24th, 2022. We will be focusing on the Main Lake this year. Registration begins at 9am in the...

The Missouri Department of Conservation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking all precautions to help slow the spread of Covid-19. Therefore, we are Cancelling FISH Days at Smithville Lake for...

Volunteers needed for the 9th Annual Smithville FISH Day (Friends Improving Smithville Habitat). April 2nd, 2020. We will be focusing on the Camp Branch Arm around Owl Creek this year. ...

I thought I would let everyone know how the crappie trap netting went on Smithville Lake this fall – pre and post regulation change.

Smithville Lake Crappie Regulation Change went into effect...

Volunteers needed for the 8th Annual FISH Day (Friends Improving Smithville Habitat) at Smithville Lake. March 28th ,2019. We will be focusing on the Main Lake behind the Litton Center this year...

Volunteers needed for the 8th Annual FISH Day (Friends Improving Smithville Habitat) at Smithville Lake. March 28th ,2019. We will be focusing on the Main Lake behind the Litton Center this year...

Smithville Lake Crappie Regulation Change will go into effect March 1st, 2019.

The new regulation is worded as: The daily limit of (30) crappie may not include more that fifteen (15) fish more...

Friendly Reminder! Hope to see a few of you there Tues night

Hope to see a few of you there!

Smithville Lake Anglers,

MDC will be hosting a public meeting to discuss the Proposed Crappie Regulation Change at Smithville Lake. We will have a short presentation on the current crappie...

The walleye fishermen at Smithville should start to see a significant increase in catch rates starting in the next year or two. Smithville is now being stocked with walleye every year at a rate of...

The weather has been less than ideal but the walleye are definitely on the dam. I've sampled the dam at Smithville 3 times this year and will probably finish up walleye sampling Tuesday night...

Wolfhnd, I will reply to this post if we are forced to cancel.

Right now the weather looks good for Friday. Most of the trees are already cut and hauled to the ramp, so mud will not be an issue....

Volunteers needed for the 7th Annual FISH Day (Friends Improving Smithville Habitat) at Smithville Lake. March 23rd ,2018. We will be focusing on the area around Crows Creek this year from 9 am...

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...

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...

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...

Clownfish,

I don't have a good answer to the appearance of the crappie in the main lake vs river. It is usually quite the opposite, dirty water = pale fish, clean water = good color. Although...

Volunteers needed to assist with the 5th Annual Smithville FISH Days (Friends Involved with Smithville Habitat). F.I.S.H Day will take place on March 24th, 2016. We will focus this year’s efforts up...

MDC crews hinge cut 500+ trees starting in the "Rock Creek" Arm and coves heading North up to and including the "Linn and Roberts" Branches. We also hinge cut a ton of trees in "3 Fingers" on the...

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MDC crews create fish habitat at Smithville Lake

Trees dropped along lake shore add ...

Due to the very high probability of heavy rain Fri night andSaturday morning, we are CANCELLING the Smithville FISH Day for thisyear. Due to heavy scheduling conflicts, I do not anticipate trying...

Due to the very high probability of heavy rain Fri night andSaturday morning, we are CANCELLING the Smithville FISH Day for thisyear. Due to heavy scheduling conflicts, I do not anticipate trying...

Hope to see many of you out there this Saturday!

Hope to see many of you out there Saturday!

Volunteers needed for 4th Annual FISH Day (Friends Involved with Smithville Habitat) at Smithville Lake. April 18, 2015. We will be focusing on the area around the 2nd W HWY Bridge this year from 9...

Volunteers needed for 4th Annual FISH Day (Friends Involved with Smithville Habitat) at Smithville Lake. April 18, 2015. We will be focusing on the area around the 2nd W HWY Bridge this year from 9...

I'm IN!

jigflip,

There was an extensive thread on this topic back in Oct 2012. Just scroll down a bit on "Ask the Conservation Agent" and you'll find it under the heading "Spider Rigging". Any other...