SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Recent flooding in southwest Missouri has been a boon for anglers because it forced trout out of a large hatchery pool site into areas along a popular trout stream. Flooding closed the Roaring River State Park in Barry County for two days earlier this month.

But Roaring River trout hatchery manager Paul Spurgeon says when the flood hit, some of the big trout at the hatchery pool, which is off limits to anglers, were washed out of the pool into the river, where fishing is permitted.

Spurgeon says several thousand trout likely washed into the river. But no fish were lost from the hatchery pens.

Roaring River is where the Missouri record rainbow trout — an 18-pound, 1-ounce fish — was caught in 2004.

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