It's that time of the year that some anglers love to see arrive, while others hate to see it. It's when the fish become active, but getting to them on some bodies of water is a nightmare. As summer progresses, the water temperatures are on the rise as is the weed...
Gary Howey’s Outdoors Blog
What To Do When Approached By A Game Warden
Game wardens have a difficult, often dangerous job, with every person met unique, and each state of affairs distinctive. Add to all that the stress from the high probability that the person they’re encountering is armed with a firearm or...
12 Things You Need To Hold Mature Bucks On Your Property Besides Food Plots By Gerald Almy
Food plots are for many of us the most fun and dramatically rewarding part of being a gamekeeper. But as you delve deeper into habitat and wildlife management, it becomes clear that there are plenty of other improvements that need to be made to the habitat if your...
Introducing others to the Outdoors By Gary Howey
As a youngster, growing up in South Dakota, I was fortunate to have some adults that took the time, to share their love of the outdoors with me. In Watertown, I did not have to go far too where there were pheasants, waterfowl, beavers, mink and other furry critters...
What is Antler Velvet?
Habitat-Techniques BY Austin Delano on Jun. 18, 2019 Antlers…they have fascinated man since the beginning. Going back thousands of years one can see mans’ love for “animals with antlers” etched and painted on the walls of caves. Antlers were "a trophy of a different...
Those Nasty Ticks By Gary Howey
The Game, Fish & Parks lists numerous seasons in their literature and on their web site, but, there is one you will not find listed there, the tick season. These nasty little bugs can be a royal pain, but do not let them stop you from going out, you will want to...
Teaching Your Puppy To Take A Line
What is “lining?” Many define it as simply training your dog to go from point “A” to “B” in a straight a line, but to us at Gamekeeper Kennels, when training this is only part of the story. We don’t teach lining as a simple one step process, we teach it as a concept...
The Big, the Bad and the Ugly-Catfish By Gary Howey
They can be big, bad and ugly and found lurking on the bottom of just about every body of water in the upper Midwest. Many of the larger ones may look like it, some large headed demon; they are catfish, one of the most popular yet under utilized sport fish species in...