Lakes

About 10 miles north of Columbia, MO is Finger Lakes State Park.  The lakes are the result of Peabody Coal’s extensive strip-mining operations in the 1960s and represent a hugely successful reclamation and restoration effort of the pits Peabody left behind. Deep dredging here in pursuit of rich veins of coal … Read More

Here’s a trip report from Al Harper: MDC maintains many lakes statewide stocked with various species of fish.  One of them near my town is Port Hudson. It’s a 55-acre lake surrounded by a 225-acre conservation area that holds largemouth (black) bass, panfish, and channel cats.  I, Al Harper, fish it at … Read More