{"id":8739,"date":"2020-12-08T17:59:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/?page_id=8739"},"modified":"2020-12-08T17:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:59:33","slug":"fish-other-water-critters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/magazine\/nature\/animals\/fish-other-water-critters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish &#038; Other Water Critters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ozark Fish &amp; Other Water Critters<\/h1>\n<p>Fish are one of the main reasons Ozark tourism exists. Without the draw to lakes such as Bull Shoals, Table Rock and Taneycomo, it is unlikely the Branson show industry would have gotten started.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe modern-day market analysts \u2014 contemplating Branson as a \u201cMidwestern Las Vegas\u201d \u2014 should spend a little more time contemplating the lowly black crappie or the freshwater drum.<\/p>\n<div class=\"critter\">\n<h1>An Ozark Water Critter List:<\/h1>\n<h4>Black Crappie <span class=\"plate\">Pomoxis sp.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>White Crappie <span class=\"plate\">Pomoxis sp.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Carp <span class=\"plate\">Cyprinus carpio<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Freshwater Drum <span class=\"plate\">Aplodinotus grunniens<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Rainbow Trout <span class=\"plate\">Oncorhynchus mykiss<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Green Sunfish <span class=\"plate\">Lepomis cyanellus<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Bluegill <span class=\"plate\">Lepomis macrochirus<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Flathead Catfish <span class=\"plate\">Pylodictis olivaris<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Channel Catfish <span class=\"plate\">Ictalurus punctatus<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Black Bullhead <span class=\"plate\">Ameirus melas<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Walleye <span class=\"plate\">Sander vitreus<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>White Bass <span class=\"plate\">Morone chrysops<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Rock Bass <span class=\"plate\">Ambloplites rupestris<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Spotted Bass <span class=\"plate\">M. punctulatus<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Smallmouth Bass <span class=\"plate\">M. dolomieu<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Largemouth Bass <span class=\"plate\">M. salmoides<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Spring Peeper <span class=\"plate\">Hyla crucifer<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Bullfrog <span class=\"plate\">Rana catesbeiana<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Crawdad <span class=\"plate\">Astacidae sp.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>River Mussel <span class=\"plate\">Unionidae sp.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Mudpuppy <span class=\"plate\">Nectarus maculosus<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Suckers<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cLocal residents of the White River valley fished primarily for food. Fishing was a fun and cheap way to put food on the table. Most fish were eaten fresh, but some were canned. Suckers especially could be cleaned, pressure cooked and then preserved in Mason jars. Sucker grabbing continues to this day as a method of catching large numbers of fish, particularly in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dPrior to the lakes, suckers were usually taken with gigs. Today, they are caught during the spring in the area creeks and rivers. Sucker grabbing refers to a unique angling method. A sucker grabber uses a very short fishing rod and sometimes just a rod handle. A stout line or cord with a fairly large weighted treble hook is attached.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSome brave grabbers climb into overhanging trees or limbs\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe grabber stations himself in the stream on foot or on a step ladder for better visibility. Some brave grabbers climb into overhanging trees or limbs along the shoreline. Others fish from horseback. Where there are long shoals, a method of \u2018herding\u2019 may be used. One person stations himself at the foot of the shoal and throws rocks into the water, \u2018herding\u2019 the fish upstream to a waiting grabber. Sucker grabbing is essentially sight fishing in which the angler is attempting to snag visible suckers.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>\u2014page 9, <span class=\"songTitle\">The History of Fishing Table Rock Lake,<\/span> by Tom Koob<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ozark Fish &amp; Other Water Critters Fish are one of the main reasons Ozark tourism exists. Without the draw to lakes such as Bull Shoals, Table Rock and Taneycomo, it is unlikely the Branson show industry would have gotten started. Maybe modern-day market analysts \u2014 contemplating Branson as a \u201cMidwestern Las Vegas\u201d \u2014 should spend&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":8727,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8739","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8740,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8739\/revisions\/8740"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}