<table> </table> Want to know where the fish are biting or maybe just hear a few fish stories?</p><p>Settle into Joe Sackuvich&#8217;s chair at the Sportsman Barber Shop in Kansas City, Kan.</p><p>If your hair is long enough, you&#8217;ll get your limit of tall tales in the time it takes Sackuvich to cut it.</p><p>Which chair is Sackuvich&#8217;s, you ask? It&#8217;s the one in front of a mount of a 2-inch crappie that is dwarfed by the board it is tacked to.</p><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my bait,&#8221; Sackuvich joked on a recent weekend. &#8220;I would have gotten my big fish mounted, but I couldn&#8217;t find a wall in here big enough to hold them.&#8221;</p><p>And on and on it goes.</p><p>If you&#8217;re a stickler for truth and honesty, this isn&#8217;t the place for you.</p><p>On any given day, the fish stories fly just as frequently as the hair that&#8217;s cut in the Sportsman Barber Shop, 1206 N. 38th St.</p><p>Some of them true, some of them false, but always entertaining.</p><p>&#8220;One time I was fishing with a friend below Truman Dam, and he caught a 65-pound catfish,&#8221; said Sackuvich, 66, who lives in Kansas City, Kan., and has been a barber at the Sportsman for 47 years. &#8220;We cut that fish open and found a good-sized bass in there.</p><p>&#8220;Just for fun, we cut that bass open and found a good-sized sunfish. So we gave him credit for catching three fish on that one cast.&#8221;</p><p>Not to be outdone, Jay Steinbrink, the barber manning the chair next to Sackuvich, started to take credit for the big bass on the wall behind him.</p><p>&#8220;Gave me a heck of a fight,&#8221; he said.</p><p>Then he laughed and confessed, &#8220;I caught that one on sale. A customer gave us that one.</p><p>&#8220;It was his first try at taxidermy, and he wanted to display it somewhere where people would see it.</p><p>&#8220;It generates a lot of conversation, I&#8217;ll tell you that.&#8221;</p><p>Welcome to the old barber shop. For as long as Gary Steinbrink, Jay&#8217;s father, has operated the little shop, it&#8217;s been a hang-out for fishermen and hunters.</p><p>Those outdoors types feel right at home in the old-fashioned hair clippery, which has been at its present location since 1988 and was on Minnesota Avenue from 1959 until 1988.</p><p>&#8220;We have a lot of fun in here,&#8221; said Gary Steinbrink, 70, who has a hornet&#8217;s nest &#8212; a dormant one &#8212; hanging over his station. &#8220;We have customers who will bring in fried crappies and pass them around, or fix up a crock pot of venison chili for us.</p><p>&#8220;And every once in a while, one of our customers will pull up in a pickup with a big ol&#8217; catfish in the back and everyone will go outside to look.&#8221;</p><p>The d&#233;cor of the Sportsman Barber Shop sets the atmosphere.</p><p>Walk into the small shop, and you&#8217;ll see two antique outboard motors on stands, old decoys and boat propellers hanging from the wall, a canoe that has been turned into a shelf, dusty mounts, and antique rods and reels propped in a corner.</p><p>&#8220;Most of these items have been donated by customers,&#8221; said Gary Steinbrink, who lives in Kansas City, Kan. &#8220;There&#8217;s a story behind every one.</p><p>&#8220;That canoe, for example. I asked a customer if he had one and he said, &#8216;Yeah, I got an old one, but the dog sleeps in it.&#8217;</p><p>&#8220;Well, he kicked the dog out, donated it to me, and I took it and made it into a shelf.&#8221;</p><p>Like most barber shops, the Sportsman has its share of loyal customers. Joe Meditz, 70, of Kansas City, Kan., has been getting his hair cut by Gary for 45 years.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here every Saturday to get a trim,&#8221; Meditz said. &#8220;They open at 8 (a.m.), but I&#8217;m here at 6:30. I want to be the first one in.&#8221;