By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
He has been broadcasting about the outdoors for more than 40 years. He has served as a hunting and fishing guide longer than that.
Very soon, Fred Ramsay of St. Joseph will be inducted into the Outdoor Hall of Fame. He calls it a tremendous honor.
“You look at who’s there. It’s Harold Ensley, Bill Dance, Roland Martin, Jimmy Houston, Bill Jordan. I mean, in my world, it’s the outdoor who’s who,” Ramsay tells KFEQmmunity. “They must be at the bottom of the barrel to get me that’s the only thing I can tell you.”
Ramsay will be inducted during a ceremony at the John A. and Genny Morris Conservation Center in Springfield next Saturday, August 16th.
Ramsay has just recently been honored by the Waterfowler Hall of Fame in Mound City.
Ramsay, who grew up in Oregon, Missouri, says he has had a great time the past 40-plus years broadcasting about the outdoors and taking various people on hunting and fishing trips, many athletes and celebrities.
Yet.
“It’s not the outdoor world. It’s the people that I have met and been around all these years. I’ve never sought out any of these people,” Ramsay says. “They somehow fell into my life, which is great.”
Ramsay began his broadcasting career on KFEQ. He broadcast a syndicated TV show for years. Ramsay now has an outdoor show on WHB in Kansas City.
Ramsay remains in love with the outdoors and describes his perfect day.
“Clear blue sky. Thirty degree high. Wind in the north, in my duck blind with the heater on,” Ramsay says with a laugh. “That’s the perfect day. It’s an amazing, amazing sport.”
Ramsay says he couldn’t believe it when the founder of the Legends of the Outdoors Hall of Fame, Garry Mason, gave him a call to break the news to him.
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