by Brent Frazee | Dec 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
By now, Alley Spring Mill isn’t exactly a well-kept secret among photographers. The red wooden building. The cool, blue spring water. The rush of current down the watercress-lined banks of the spring branch. This is a postcard scene straight from the Ozarks. And it’s...
by Brent Frazee | Dec 3, 2016 | Missouri, Ozarks
Whether visitors to Echo Bluff State Park decide to take a walk on the mild side and stay in one of the lodge’s beautiful rooms or they decide to rough it, they quickly get the idea that they are close to Ozarks nature at its best. “We had one person who was staying...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 27, 2016 | Hunting, Kansas
The first thing you notice when you travel the backroads of central Kansas is that it’s a long way between farm houses. The landscape in these parts is dominated by flat CRP fields that stretch into the horizon, sandy backroads and the shallow marshes of famous...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 23, 2016 | Hunting, Missouri
Missouri deer hunters got off to a good start on opening weekend of the firearms season Nov. 12-13 when they shot 96,131 whitetails. But the rest of the season? Well, let’s just say that the harvest rate slowed down considerably. By the time the 11-day season ended...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 23, 2016 | Fishing, Missouri, Ozarks
Short-sleeve weather on the golf course one day. Biting cold, blustery conditions on the water the next. No problem. Not for pro fisherman Marcus Sykora and his amateur partner, Matt Capstick. They shot birdies on the Old Kinderhook’s Tom Weiskopf-designed course at...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 19, 2016 | Hunting, Missouri
Guido Hibdon, one of the top all-time pro bass fishermen, is dealing with health problems. But that didn’t keep him from going deer hunting early this week. Sitting on the back porch of his home near Lake of the Ozarks., he watched an 8-point buck trail a doe on his...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 17, 2016 | Hunting, Missouri, Ozarks
This is a tale about an unlikely buck found in an unlikely place. Brute, broad-racked deer are supposed to be found in Missouri’s northern reaches or central region, where crops and river-break corridors are conducive to growing ‘em big. Not in the Ozarks, where deer...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Missouri firearms deer season opened with a bang over the weekend. Aided by near-perfect hunting conditions – cool mornings and mild afternoons — hunters shot 96,823 deer Saturday and Sunday. That was the highest opening-weekend harvest in the last six years...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Missouri Department of Conservation wants to know how big a foe it is fighting in Chronic Wasting Disease, a fatal, neurological disease that can spread through deer populations. It’s already in Missouri. The disease was first detected in 2010 when it was...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 9, 2016 | Hunting, Kansas
The same drought that was the curse of Kansas a few years ago may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for Kansas quail hunters this year. Quail numbers are back, big time. And wildlife biologists credit the dry years for indirectly playing a part in creating ideal...
