07-19-2007, 02:37 PM
gone, that one always confuses me, when I go to some ones house and his wife tells me he is gone, I mean do I take my hat off and give my condolances or do I pull up a step and wait 5 minutes because I was suspost to meet him there and he should be back any minute?
I thought you were talking about fred trost the show, I hadnt heard anything about him passing in the local news here in oakland county.
Usualy they are up on this sort of thing. They didnt miss the passing of Sir Graves Gastly a few weeks back and he has been off the air for 30+ years.
I looked forward to thursdays every week to see what was going on in the woods and ponds of michigan. I knew I could catch a little bit from the Fred Trost show, (ya I know it was called by other names, but to me and every one I know on the water it was always the Fred Trost show)
this dose make me wonder now if he had intentionaly fired the shot that ended his program on PBS? There was always talk about Zackery taking over the program one day.
I am glad I did get the oppertunity to meet Fred and Zackery in person.
I am glad as well I got to meat Fred Bear as well as Ed Cruse, (Ed was the man in the canoe at the beginning of every Morton show)
I remember as a youth Ed gave me a lure that never made it to the market, I wonder if it ever got pattened. Dont ask me what it was, because I wont tell. all I will say is that at its time it was cutting edge tec. Ed tested all his stuff in his swimming pool in the basement of his house.
I would have like to have met myle perkens.
here is the article from todays detroit news.
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Fred Trost, popular host of Michigan outdoors TV show, dies at 61
EAST LANSING -- Fred Trost, who hosted the popular "Michigan Outdoors" hunting and fishing television show, has died. He was 61.
Trost died Wednesday of a rare lung condition after spending several weeks in the hospital, his son, Zachary Trost of East Lansing, told The Associated Press on Thursday.
"Michigan Outdoors" was broadcast on public television across the state, until a $4 million judgment against him for an investigative series he did on deer scent lures led to his departure in 1992. He later began broadcasting another show, "Practical Sportsman," also on public television.
"I've had people come up to me over the past few weeks and say, 'I learned fishing from your father,' 'I learned how to skin a fish from your father,' 'Your father made me passionate about the outdoors,'" Zachary Trost told the Lansing State Journal.
Friends remember Fred Trost as a giant of the outdoors.
"He was a big deal," said Tony Hansen, editor of Michigan Out-of-Doors magazine. "He was the first outdoor media star. Kind of a larger-than-life personality."
In the late 1990s, while still working on the show, Fred Trost enrolled in Cooley Law School, graduating cum laude, his son said. Trost stopped production of "Practical Sportsman" in 2005.
Zachary Trost said the family expected to meet Thursday to plan a memorial service for his father.
"He did not want a funeral. He doesn't want people to grieve for his death. He wants people to enjoy our limited time here and the outdoors," he said.
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I thought you were talking about fred trost the show, I hadnt heard anything about him passing in the local news here in oakland county.
Usualy they are up on this sort of thing. They didnt miss the passing of Sir Graves Gastly a few weeks back and he has been off the air for 30+ years.
I looked forward to thursdays every week to see what was going on in the woods and ponds of michigan. I knew I could catch a little bit from the Fred Trost show, (ya I know it was called by other names, but to me and every one I know on the water it was always the Fred Trost show)
this dose make me wonder now if he had intentionaly fired the shot that ended his program on PBS? There was always talk about Zackery taking over the program one day.
I am glad I did get the oppertunity to meet Fred and Zackery in person.
I am glad as well I got to meat Fred Bear as well as Ed Cruse, (Ed was the man in the canoe at the beginning of every Morton show)
I remember as a youth Ed gave me a lure that never made it to the market, I wonder if it ever got pattened. Dont ask me what it was, because I wont tell. all I will say is that at its time it was cutting edge tec. Ed tested all his stuff in his swimming pool in the basement of his house.
I would have like to have met myle perkens.
here is the article from todays detroit news.
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Fred Trost, popular host of Michigan outdoors TV show, dies at 61
EAST LANSING -- Fred Trost, who hosted the popular "Michigan Outdoors" hunting and fishing television show, has died. He was 61.
Trost died Wednesday of a rare lung condition after spending several weeks in the hospital, his son, Zachary Trost of East Lansing, told The Associated Press on Thursday.
"Michigan Outdoors" was broadcast on public television across the state, until a $4 million judgment against him for an investigative series he did on deer scent lures led to his departure in 1992. He later began broadcasting another show, "Practical Sportsman," also on public television.
"I've had people come up to me over the past few weeks and say, 'I learned fishing from your father,' 'I learned how to skin a fish from your father,' 'Your father made me passionate about the outdoors,'" Zachary Trost told the Lansing State Journal.
Friends remember Fred Trost as a giant of the outdoors.
"He was a big deal," said Tony Hansen, editor of Michigan Out-of-Doors magazine. "He was the first outdoor media star. Kind of a larger-than-life personality."
In the late 1990s, while still working on the show, Fred Trost enrolled in Cooley Law School, graduating cum laude, his son said. Trost stopped production of "Practical Sportsman" in 2005.
Zachary Trost said the family expected to meet Thursday to plan a memorial service for his father.
"He did not want a funeral. He doesn't want people to grieve for his death. He wants people to enjoy our limited time here and the outdoors," he said.
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