Anglers kick off trout season

Shrill whistles and light freezing mist at the crack of dawn kicked off Missouri’s opening day of catch-and-keep trout season today.

Gov. Mike Parson was on hand at Bennett Spring State Park, where hundreds of anglers lined the banks and stood precariously on the dam in 27-degree weather, hoping to land a big rainbow or brown trout.

The Missouri Department of Conservation stocked thousands of fish at Bennett Spring, Montauk State Park and Roaring River ahead of today’s season opener.

Mike Luttrell holds up a 6.65 pound rainbow trout that he caught at Roaring River State Park on his birthday, Mar. 1, 2019.Those fish, including dozens of lunkers weighing up to 5 pounds, supplement the trout that…