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“Going Fishing with Captain Catfish”

Presentation by Missouri River guide John “Captain Catfish” Trager

The Missouri River has lately become a destination for trophy catfish. All up and down the Big Muddy, anglers are pulling huge fish from the turbid waters. Tonight’s presentation is by someone who makes it possible for other people to land monster cats.

John “Captain Catfish” Trager runs a fishing guide service on the Kansas and Missouri Rivers focused giving people to opportunity to fish the Big Muddy’s big catfish.

Captain Catfish

John "Captain Catfish" Trager shows off a monster blue catfish. Photo from the Captain Catfish Facebook page.

Time and Place

Wednesday, May 14, 2014
7:00 pm

Westport CoffeeHouse Theater
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Presentation by Missouri River guide John “Captain Catfish” Trager

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

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John Trager’s catfishing boat at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers.
photo from the Captain Catfish facebook page.

Westport Coffeehouse Theater – 4010 Pennsylvania Ave. Kansas City, MO
6 p.m. Social Hour

7 p.m. Presentation

Note: Access the theater through Coffeehouse or Green Room Burgers & Beer.
 Presentation is being filmed . After 7 PM, Please enter through Green Room Burgers

The Missouri River has lately become a destination for trophy catfish. All up and down the Big Muddy, anglers are pulling huge fish from the turbid waters. Tonight’s presentation is by someone who makes it possible for other people to land monster cats.

John “Captain Catfish” Trager runs a fishing guide service on the Kansas and Missouri Rivers focused giving people to opportunity to fish the Big Muddy’s big catfish. We can’t guarantee all of John’s stories will be 100% true, but that’s never the point anyway!

Directions

Westport CoffeeHouse – 4010 Pennsylvania Kansas City, Mo – www.westportcoffeehouse.com

The Westport CoffeeHouse is in the Westport entertainment area, midtown KC, south of downtown and north of the Plaza.  The main intersection is Westport Rd and Broadway.  From this intersection, go west on Westport Rd one block to Pennsylvania. Turn north (right).

OR you can get there from the intersection of Southwest Trafficway and Westport Rd.  Go east on Westport Rd to Pennsylvania. Turn north (left).

Westport Coffee House is approximately one block down on the west side of Pennsylvania.  Parking can be had either south of the coffee house in the large parking lot or just north of the coffee house alongside the building.  Enter through Green Room Burgers or Westport CoffeeHouse.

Resources and Links

The Big Muddy Speakers Series in Kansas City

is hosted by these wonderful partners!

Thanks to all of our venue hosts for making this possible! Click here for a list of upcoming presentations» The Big Muddy Speaker Series is also held monthly in Rocheport and St. Charles.

Recordings of Presentations

Kansas City Digital Video has been recording Big Muddy Speaker Series presentations. These are available on their website at this link. Some contain synchronized powerpoint presentations. We will be posting these to the archived presentation pages on bigmuddyspeakers.org. Thanks Micheal Morgan and crew for putting this important archive online! The Big Muddy Speaker Series is partially funded by the Columbia Ecological Services Field Office (USFWS) and the Mo. Dept. of Conservation.