“We’ve seen a number in the 18- to 22-inch length range.” “Paho has consistently provided some nice-size bass,” Wiechman said. The crew led by Jerry Wiechman, an MDC fisheries biologist, shocked up good numbers of bragging-size bass. “This is also a pretty good channel catfish lake.”Īn MDC crew recently used electroshocking to study Lake Paho’s fish population.

“I’d say your chances of catching a three- to six-pound bass are pretty good here,” said Darrel Cunningham, an MDC resource technician at Lake Paho. Anglers can harvest only two largemouths per day and they must be longer than 18 inches.

The 273-acre lake was built in Mercer County by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) in the late 1940s, making it one of MDC’s oldest public fishing lakes.īut the centerpiece of the 2,350-acre Lake Paho Conservation Area is also becoming a good place to catch a lunker bass. History lurks among the coves and fields, too. – Most people visit Lake Paho to catch trophy largemouth bass or to enjoy the green rolling hills of northwest Missouri.

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