Fred Trost, 61 - "Michigan Outdoors", "Practical Sportsman" host
Kathi
July 19, 2007
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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 today.
“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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