Class I Blue Springs Creek, MO

Blue Springs Creek, located in the hills of east central Missouri, offers the opportunity to pursue wild rainbow trout on a relatively small stream. Rainbow trout had been raised at a coldwater hatchery adjacent to Blue Spring in the early 1900s (on what is now the Camp Mihaska property) and over the years, established a naturally reproducing population in the adjacent stream.

 

The hatchery operations have been closed for several decades, and today anglers can access the creek and its self-sustaining rainbow trout on Blue Springs Creek Conservation Area (BSCCA) south of Bourbon, MO on Hwy N on the lower three miles of stream above its confluence with the Meramec River. (Missouri Dept. of Conservation)