by Brent Frazee | Oct 15, 2016 | Fishing
Where has time gone? It seems like only yesterday that my daughters were little, curly-haired girls enthusiastically sharing time with me in Canada. Now, they’re all grown up, married and balancing time between successful careers and home life. But one thing hasn’t...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 7, 2016 | Fishing, Ozarks
During a weekend that was all about big fish at Lake of the Ozarks, Kathy and Dan Swan brought in the biggest catch of all. Fishing Oct. 1 in the Big Bass Bash that paid the winner $100,000, Kathy cast a Brush Hog to the edge of a condo boat dock and immediately felt...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 6, 2016 | Fishing, Ozarks
Kerry Malone came up with an apt description of the difference between his championship bass and the one that finished second in the Big Bass Bash at Lake of the Ozarks. “Maybe a couple drops of water,” said Malone, who lives in Mt. Pulaski, Ill. “Or maybe a small...
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 27, 2016 | Fishing
The recent news of the temporary closure of the Yellowstone River to all water-based recreation hit close to home. On July 19, my friend Bruce Cochran and I were floating the Yellowstone in a drift boat with guide Chris Fleck, fly-fishing for trout. Exactly a month...
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...
