by Brent Frazee | Oct 5, 2016 | General, Outdoors
Don’t count me as one of the many who were excited by the news Monday that Bass Pro Shops has reached an agreement to purchase Cabela’s. I don’t like monopolies. And that is where Bass Pro Shops is headed. You might recall the events of 2014, when Bass Pro purchased...
by Brent Frazee | Sep 29, 2016 | Fishing, General, Hunting, Missouri, Outdoors
When I got word Wednesday that Sara Parker Pauley has been named the new director of the Missouri Department of Conservation, it brought back memories of a wonderful spring day in 2013. It was opening day of the turkey season, and I tagged along with Pauley, then...
by Brent Frazee | Sep 25, 2016 | General
My favorite time of the year is upon us. October is the most colorful month of the season. Literally. In Missouri and Kansas, that’s when the forests are splashed with orange, red and yellow as the leaves turn colors. I remember many impressive displays of Mother...
by Brent Frazee | Sep 24, 2016 | Fishing, General
Spence Turner and Chester Pew didn’t have much in common. Spence was in the public eye, a well-known fisheries biologist who was a pioneer in building Missouri’s trout program to what it is today. He was known nationally for his work that resulted in good fishing for...
by Brent Frazee | Sep 24, 2016 | Fishing, General
OK, I have tried this retirement thing for three weeks now, and it’s time to join the real world again. I mean, a guy can’t fish every day, can he? It’s time to start writing again. After 36 years as outdoors editor of The Kansas City Star, I’m ready to move on....
