by Brent Frazee | Dec 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Brent Frazee When I was cleaning my desk the other day, I came across my 2020 day planner. It was filled with scribbles that became dashed hopes. At the start of the year, I had big plans. Pages of my day planner were filled with dates set aside for fishing trips...
by Brent Frazee | Dec 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Brent Frazee OK, it’s time to call this meeting of the Shoppers Addiction Club to order. I’ll go first. My name is Brent Frazee and I have a problem. When it comes to fishing lures, I am an addict. I always bite. Dangle any shiny, new, “best lure ever” in...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Brent Frazee I don’t think I’ll ever forget the day I met Brett Hedrick. Hedrick, who walked with a noticeable limp after years of living with spina bifida, scrambled down a hill to help youngsters participating in the special fishing day he and his wife organized,...
by Brent Frazee | Jun 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Brent Frazee My dad and I had a complicated relationship. We were just different people. Dad liked to boast, and tell everybody around him just how much he knew. I rebelled against that. Looking back, maybe too much. But I loved the guy. And I know he loved...
by Brent Frazee | Jun 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Brent Frazee When Phil Taunton’s father passed away in 1995, he made a simple pledge to honor his memory. Taunton vowed to do everything he could to get kids outdoors, much the same as his father had. “Dad would always load the neighborhood kids into our station...
by Brent Frazee | Apr 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Brent Frazee When I heard that bass-fishing legend Charlie Campbell passed away on April 19, my mind raced back to a spring day in 2008. I was in the boat with Charlie as he worked a bank on Table Rock Lake, and I saw how his eyes lit up every time he caught a...
by Brent Frazee | Apr 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Brent Frazee Even when you’re playing it safe and staying home during this coronavirus outbreak, you can bring the outdoors indoors. Educators, conservation groups and businesses are coming up with some innovative ideas to share nature at a time when stay-at-home...
by Brent Frazee | Mar 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve always believed that the outdoors lifestyle is an insurance policy in times of emergency. Hop into a fishing boat, hike far from the crowds, hunt in remote areas—that’s always been my plan for dealing with bad times. Government can’t shut down the outdoors, I...
by Brent Frazee | Mar 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Brent Frazee The government’s advice to avoid crowds and even go as far as self-quarantining during the coronavirus scare came as a huge inconvenience to many. Not me. I have been training for this most of my adult life. When you love to fish, hike and camp, you...
by Brent Frazee | Sep 11, 2019 | Hunting, Missouri
I’ll never forget the day when my worlds collided in an instant. Sept. 11, 2001. One moment, I was basking in the peace and solitude of the outdoors, with not a care in the world. The next moment, I was jolted into the reality that no American ever thought possible –...
