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 15, 2017 | Fishing, Missouri, Ozarks
The quest to catch one of the biggest fish in Missouri’s waters will resume March 15. That’s when the paddlefish-snagging season opens. Thousands of fishermen will take to Lake of the Ozarks, Truman Lake and Table Rock Lake and their tributaries with a...
by Brent Frazee | Mar 6, 2017 | Fishing, Missouri, Ozarks
Tom Mayes was definitely under-equipped for a battle with a giant. When he fished for trout at Lake Taneycomo recently, he used a 4-foot, 8-inch rod, a small reel with 4-pound test line, and a small gold hook baited with PowerBait. That’s fine for small rainbow...
by Brent Frazee | Feb 28, 2017 | Fishing, Kansas, Missouri, Ozarks
Fishermen in Missouri and Kansas don’t have to travel hundreds of miles north to find walleyes. Though there aren’t as many of the sharp-toothed gamefish in Mid-America as there are in North Country, good fishing opportunities still exist here. Here’s a look at my...
by Brent Frazee | Feb 24, 2017 | Fishing, Kansas, Missouri, Ozarks
Crappie fishermen in Kansas and Missouri will have plenty of fish on their stringers and in their livewells this year. The season already is off to a good start, with impressive winter fishing reported at reservoirs such as Clinton and Hillsdale in Kansas and Truman...
