Other than the rut, deer really don’t wander around that often. However, the daily routes they use will not be static because food sources and conditions are constantly changing. Each plant has a peak period of abundance, taste appeal, and nutritional value. Deer know...
Gary Howey’s Outdoors Blog

Watertown, My Hometown, gary Howey
Growing up in Watertown, S.D., at that time the state was known as the Land of infinite variety, which it really was, with so many things to do, we weren’t ever bored, with the outdoors, offering numerous activities in the outdoors. When a town is named...

It’s A Drag and it, best Work. By gary Howey
Author with a Northern that latched onto a smaller Walleye when fishing at Carroll Lake Lodge in Canada, without the drag set properly, it would have broken the line. (Photo by Larry Myhre) No matter, what you’re fishing for, every reel has some sort of a drag: star,...

Close encounters of the wild turkey kind By Larry Myhre
It was a wet foggy morning in Central Missouri near where the Ozark River empties into the Missouri when I encountered this curious doe. She crossed an open field walking like a ghost through the mist then entered the trees where I was set up for turkeys. It's moments...

Open Season By gary Howey
Because snow geese numbers are so high, they’ve destroyed the tundra, where they migrate to and nest, the spring season being set up the help reduce their numbers. Because, The Special Spring Snow Goose Season is open, today, the skies are covered up with migrating...

Tricks for finicky late season fish by Larry Myhre
Late season ice fishing can be one tough go, as the fish have seen about everything and you'll have to change and go to finesse baits. As the winter wears on, ice fishing will begin to slow. There are, however, some things you can do to spark more action. There’s...

Hard Water Fishing By gary Howey
This year's ice fishing is off to a slow start, because of the warm weather. A few years back Team Outdoorsmen Productions team member Cory Ewing, Waubay Guide Service with several of the nice perch taken from the Glacial Lakes of South Dakota. Those of us who...