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Contemplating fishing’s many mysteries
Mid-summer musings … Why is it that you catch fish on a new lure, get excited, and buy a bunch of them, only to find out that it was a one-trip wonder? Why is it that no one talks about lures such as electric-blue plastic worms or gadgets such as the Color-C-Lector,...
Kansas is big (channel) cat country
Most fishermen would be happy with a catch of five channel catfish weighing almost 30 pounds. But Cole and Clay Schmidt…well, they were expecting a little more when they competed in a recent Catfish Chasers tournament at Council Grove Lake. The brothers from Alma,...
Missouri’s turkey hunting continues to decline
What in the world has happened to Missouri’s turkey hunting? Many hunters remember the early 2000s, when harvest of the regular season and the youth segment combined routinely totaled more than 50,000 annually. In 2004, it soared to an impressive 60,744. But that was...
Patrick McManus, a writer who made a generation of fishermen and hunters laugh, will be missed
I have to admit that my first meeting with Patrick McManus was a bit of disappointment. When I sat next to him at an Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) conference years ago, I expected to be entertained. He was, after all, the humor writer who was my hero. ...
Fishermen excel at fake news. Just check out their fish stories
Have you heard the one about the man-eating catfish in Lake of the Ozarks? How about the huge bull shark that was caught at Glen Elder Lake in north-central Kansas? Or the 346-pound catfish caught in the Mississippi River? Fake, fake, fake. On April Fool’s Day, we...
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