by Brent Frazee | Nov 6, 2017 | Fishing, Kansas
Ty Wolf follows the migration closely at this time of the year. No, he’s not a waterfowl hunter. He’s a catfisherman. When the cormorants stop at John Redmond Reservoir in eastern Kansas on their way south each fall, he has come to expect some of the best channel-cat...
by Brent Frazee | Sep 19, 2017 | Hunting, Kansas
In this day and age of unrest, I often think back to the time I met two men who unknowingly became role models for racial harmony. On a spring morning in 2008, Rob Robinson, a white firefighter from Mississippi, knocked on the door of an old farmhouse in northwest...
by Brent Frazee | Jul 17, 2017 | Fishing, Kansas, Missouri
We’ll call this one “alternatives to staying in the air conditioning.” Yeah, it’s almost too hot to bear. But there are still ways to beat the heat and enjoy the Great Outdoors. Here are a few of my picks: COLD WATER, HOT FISHING: Lake Taneycomo in Branson, Mo., is a...
by Brent Frazee | Jun 4, 2017 | Fishing, Kansas
Kyle Alsop, 23, might seems a little young to say he is benefiting from a lifetime of competing in bass tournaments. But then again… “I was 3 when I fished in my first tournament,” said Alsop, who lives in Overland Park. “I fished with my dad in the Rogers Little...
by Brent Frazee | May 31, 2017 | Fishing, Kansas
When Phil Taunton started the CPR (Catch, Photo and Release) program to promote getting kids involved in fishing, he wasn’t expecting its appeal to stretch much further than the Emporia, Kan. area where he lives. But look at it now. That program that Taunton launched...
by Brent Frazee | May 21, 2017 | Hunting, Kansas
Jim Dickson think he has come up with the perfect slogan for a bumper sticker for his hunting vehicle. “Hooked on turkeys, not on drugs.” “I am a turkey-hunting addict,” said Dickson, 74, who lives in Ruston, La. Dickson estimates he has hunted wild turkeys for 45...
