by Brent Frazee | May 4, 2017 | Fishing
The Flood of 2017 has already inflicted great damage in the Missouri Ozarks. But the Missouri Department of Conservation doubts that the fish will be a victim. Though crappies and bass were in the process of spawning at hard-hit reservoirs such as Table Rock, Truman,...
by Brent Frazee | May 2, 2017 | Fishing, Missouri, Ozarks
My heart aches for many of my friends in the Ozarks tonight. They thought they had witnessed Mother Nature at her worst in 2015, when devastating flooding cut a wide swath and stopped recreation in its tracks. But this might be worse. After a weekend in which the...
by Brent Frazee | Apr 27, 2017 | Fishing, Outdoors, Ozarks
I remember the days when I liked spring. Warm, sunny afternoons. Beautiful blooms on the trees. Forests glowing with their bright green foliage. Fish stirring in the shallows and snapping at lures cast their way. Yeah, that’s the way I envision the springs of my past....
by Brent Frazee | Mar 31, 2017 | Fishing, Kansas
La Cygne Lake in eastern Kansas had a lofty reputation as a big-bass producer before this spring even arrived. But after what happened the weekend of March 18-19, the lore of the power-plant lake about 60 miles south of Kansas City grew even greater. In that two-day...
by Brent Frazee | Mar 27, 2017 | Fishing
Going into Sunday’s championship round of the GEICO Bassmaster Classic, no one gave Jordan Lee much of a chancing of winning…not even Lee himself. HE was in 15th place, almost 14 pounds behind the leader, Brent Ehrler. And given that Lake Conroe in Texas was...
by Brent Frazee | Mar 24, 2017 | Fishing, Kansas
Bill Hartman took home a wire basket full of fish – and a giant fish story – after a fly fishing trip Thursday to a beautiful pond in the Kansas Flint Hills. He used a black marabou jig under a strike indicator to catch crappies and largemouth bass. But it’s what he...
