by Gary Howey | Feb 4, 2016 | Deer Hunting, Habitat, Soil Tests
By this time of the year, most everyone’s hunting season is over or starting to wind down and not many guys are thinking about growing plots or feeding their deer. With some cold and nasty weather still possible for the next few weeks, it’s a great time to sit down...
by Gary Howey | Feb 1, 2016 | Deer Hunting, Habitat, THE GAMEKEEPERS OF MOSSY OAK
“Browse.” When compared to food plot crops and most of the whitetails’ other foods, it’s terrible nutrition and difficult to digest, BUT WHITETAILS MUST HAVE IT! Browse consists of the leaves, buds, stems and twigs of woody deciduous trees and shrubs, but they may...
by Gary Howey | Jan 29, 2016 | "Of the Outdoors" Columns, Gary Howey-NE., Ice Fishing
The prayers of we ice angler have been answered, as now there is plenty of ice for us to punch holes through.Now that we have the ice we have been waiting for, it is time of the year when it can be hard to find concentrations of active fish that are willing to...
by Gary Howey | Jan 29, 2016 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns, Ice Fishing, Larry Myhre-IA
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal.Successful ice fishing, I have long maintained, is simply a whole lot of little things put together that result in catching fish. How often have you been fishing with someone and they catch a lot more fish than you do for no...
by Gary Howey | Jan 27, 2016 | Ice Fishing, Merritt Reservoir-NE, Tournaments, Valentine-NE.
This years Valentine Chamber tournament was held on the twelve inches of ice on Alkali Lake south of Valentine, NE. with thirty teams hitting the ice during excellent weather conditions. This was a catch and release tournament with the length being converted to...
