by Brent Frazee | Nov 8, 2016 | Hunting, Kansas, Missouri
Quick: What weekend sporting event in the area will attracts a crowd of almost 500,000 this weekend? If you answered the Missouri deer and the Kansas pheasant openers, you win. Many who are passionate about the ball sports have no idea how much of a following these...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 5, 2016 | Hunting, Missouri
Many Missouri hunters who hoped to get a wild turkey for Thanksgiving dinner will be going to the grocery store for their bird this year. The fall firearms season, which ran Oct. 1-31, was a dud this year. Hunters shot only 3,698 turkeys in the month-long season, a...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 3, 2016 | Hunting, Kansas, Missouri
Here is a duck hunter’s idea of a gloomy weather forecast: sunny, with high temperatures in the 70s and little change foreseen in the near future. That’s what waterfowl enthusiasts in Missouri and Kansas are facing. Weather at this time of the year is supposed to...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 1, 2016 | Hunting, Missouri
It wasn’t that long ago that wildlife biologists were scrambling for ways to reduce deer numbers in northern Missouri. At one point less than 10 years ago, hunters could take an unlimited number of does – a regulation that I found a bit excessive. My, how things have...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 27, 2016 | Missouri, Outdoors
Hidden behind the rhetoric and mud-slinging of the 2016 election are two items on the ballot that potentially could have a big impact on the outdoors. Resolutions on both sides of the state line – Missouri and Kansas – are well worth campaigning for. In Missouri,...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 26, 2016 | Fishing, Missouri
So, what do bass fishing and golf have in common? Not a lot if you’re Dion Hibdon, a nationally known pro bass fisherman. Except for a few days each fall at Lake of the Ozarks. That’s when pro bass fishermen team with golfers to compete in the Missouri Invitational...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 19, 2016 | Outdoors
How many daughters make this request of their dads when it comes time to plan a trip to celebrate their senior year in high school? Sierra Scott didn’t want to go to the beach. Or the mountains. Or to Europe. She wanted to go bear hunting. “For years, Sierra had been...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 15, 2016 | Fishing
Where has time gone? It seems like only yesterday that my daughters were little, curly-haired girls enthusiastically sharing time with me in Canada. Now, they’re all grown up, married and balancing time between successful careers and home life. But one thing hasn’t...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 7, 2016 | Fishing, Ozarks
During a weekend that was all about big fish at Lake of the Ozarks, Kathy and Dan Swan brought in the biggest catch of all. Fishing Oct. 1 in the Big Bass Bash that paid the winner $100,000, Kathy cast a Brush Hog to the edge of a condo boat dock and immediately felt...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 6, 2016 | Fishing, Ozarks
Kerry Malone came up with an apt description of the difference between his championship bass and the one that finished second in the Big Bass Bash at Lake of the Ozarks. “Maybe a couple drops of water,” said Malone, who lives in Mt. Pulaski, Ill. “Or maybe a small...
