by Brent Frazee | Dec 14, 2016 | General, Kansas, Missouri, Outdoors
This Christmas tradition is for the birds. We’re talking about the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, where thousands of bird-watchers across the nation gather in teams during the holiday season and beat the bushes to count their feathered friends. The annual counts, which...
by Brent Frazee | Dec 10, 2016 | Fishing, Kansas
It hit like a bass, it fought like a bass, it even looked like a bass…well, if you’re a little nearsighted, like I am. Of course, it wasn’t. It was just a big pretender, a drum that gave my light-action rod and reel and 4-pound test line a test. This big girl hit a...
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 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...
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 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...
