by Brent Frazee | Feb 20, 2017 | Fishing, Kansas, Missouri, Ozarks
So, where should you go to catch largemouth bass in Missouri and Kansas this year? Here are my rankings, based on information from fisheries biologists, guides and fishermen. MISSOURI LAKE OF THE OZARKS: This old-timer just seems to get better with age. Last year, two...
by Brent Frazee | Jan 16, 2017 | General, Kansas, Missouri, Outdoors, Ozarks
I’ve told myself that I’m going to be much more reasonable about my New Year’s resolutions this year. No more goals of catching a state-record bass, training my Labrador retriever to be a champ duck dog or starting a guide service. Ain’t gonna happen. Instead, I have...
by Brent Frazee | Dec 17, 2016 | Missouri, Outdoors, Ozarks
The new year will bring three new state parks to Missouri’s Ozarks, Gov. Jay Nixon announced on Dec. 16. The parks will showcase the rugged beauty of southern Missouri, featuring clear-water streams, bluffs, knobs and scenic vistas. The additions to the Missouri...
by Brent Frazee | Dec 3, 2016 | Missouri, Ozarks
Whether visitors to Echo Bluff State Park decide to take a walk on the mild side and stay in one of the lodge’s beautiful rooms or they decide to rough it, they quickly get the idea that they are close to Ozarks nature at its best. “We had one person who was staying...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 23, 2016 | Fishing, Missouri, Ozarks
Short-sleeve weather on the golf course one day. Biting cold, blustery conditions on the water the next. No problem. Not for pro fisherman Marcus Sykora and his amateur partner, Matt Capstick. They shot birdies on the Old Kinderhook’s Tom Weiskopf-designed course at...
by Brent Frazee | Nov 17, 2016 | Hunting, Missouri, Ozarks
This is a tale about an unlikely buck found in an unlikely place. Brute, broad-racked deer are supposed to be found in Missouri’s northern reaches or central region, where crops and river-break corridors are conducive to growing ‘em big. Not in the Ozarks, where deer...
