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EAST LANSING, Mich. – 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.

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“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.

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