Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal If your goal is to catch a trophy northern pike, the best time to do it is coming soon. The big, old females, those 20-pound-plus leviathans, move into shallow bays to spawn even before the ice goes out. By the time the ice leaves...
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Estelline, SD Reflections Memorial Park
“Reflections Park” was the idea of the Pomrenke family to pay it forward after their son Seth became ill in 2008 and the Estelline community and Legion Members helped them. Donald Zafft or DZ and Tammy Krein were asked to help make the park a reality in early July...
Ice Fishing at 50 degrees By Gary Howey
There's something to be said about ice fishing when it's fifty degrees, it's not the type of weather you usually associate with ice fishing. For one thing, your hands and the rest of your body isn't as cold as those minus thirty-three wind chill days you...
Coyote calling can be an unexpected adventure By Larry Myhre
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal. Things don’t always go as planned when you are calling coyotes. Maybe that’s why I enjoy it so much. If you are calling in coyote-rich country such as western Nebraska, there’s little doubt you can call in several in a day. Other...
ICOtec Leads Wildlife Research Using Call Development with QUWF
Buffalo , MO: "All of the habitat work, Memorandums of Understanding and claimed acres of restoration mean nothing if the populations of wildlife, in our case upland game, are not positively influenced with healthy population growth" states Craig...
Learning from Past Experiences! By Gary Howey
I remember while growing up in Watertown, SD, about all the things there were to do and how I wanted to try to do all of them! I also remember that several of these things weren’t what I really should have been doing. My folks were always there to...
Late winter action slows, even on farm ponds By Larry Myhre
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal I didn’t need to look at a calendar to know that it was the month of February. My depth finder was lit up like a Christmas tree with fish signals, but nothing was happening. A tiny 1/100th-ounce jig was hanging on fresh, two-pound...
6 Hot Spots For Finding Shed Antlers
6 Hot Spots For Finding Shed Antlers Shed hunting is all the rage now-days. People train their dogs specifically to find sheds, there are clubs and organizations devoted to the sport and shed hunting has become so popular that guided week-long “shed hunts” in...