“Today we’re putting in some fish, the initial stocking of Krug Park,” says Eric Dennis, a Fisheries Management Biologist with the Conservation Dept. “We’re stocking it with large mouth bass, bluegill, redear sunfish and channel catfish.”
Dennis says they’re restocking now and anticipate opening the park for public fishing this spring. It will be catch-and-release only. In about a year, they’ll introduce trout, and Dennis says you can catch and keep the trout.
“You’ll need a regular Missouri fishing license to fish here,” he says. “It’s going to be open from daylight to dark.”
Dennis and his team spent their day moving hundreds of bass and sunfish with fishing nets, five to ten at a time, from a large bucket into the lagoon. This spring they’ll add bluegill and channel cat, and next fall they’ll add trout.
Chuck Kempf with the city’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Civic Facilities was on hand for the restocking effort. Kempf says he’s glad to focus some of the department’s attention toward the purely recreational aspects of the city’s park system.