For land and property managers trying to get the most out of their deer herd, food plots have proven to be a great way to increase the overall nutrition needed for optimal growth. Along with quality food plots, a supplemental feeding program can really help your deer...
Gary Howey’s Outdoors Blog
Whiskered Wonders-Channel Catfish By Gary Howey
Anyone who has ever had the opportunity to tangle with a big catfish knows how powerful a big cat is. They’re not the prettiest fish in the water, but they are plentiful, fun to catch and great eating.Cats are bottom-hugging creatures, spending most of their...
Close encounters of the turkey kind By Larry MYHRE
Reprinted from the Sioux City JournalThere’s nothing quite like sitting in the dark with your back against a tree in the turkey woods. The whippoorwills are in full throat, their lashing cries piercing the darkness with a cadence only that bird can make.A barred owl...
Watertown Mourns the Loss of Native Son and Artist Terry Redlin
Terry Redlin, one of the country’s most widely collected painters of wildlife and Americana, died Sunday after a nine year struggle with dementia. He was 78 years old.The only child of Alfred Redlin and Dora (Stein) Redlin, Terry Avon Redlin was born just north of...
South Dakota State Record Smallmouth
The fish, a female full of eggs, was 19 inches long and had a 19-inch girth.“I’ve never seen anything so fat. It was so fat its eyes were bulging. It was a freak,” Held said.Held caught the fish on a swim bait with a jig head, using an Alabama rig. Not legal in all...
In the Weeds and Wood for Bass By Gary Howey
It's the time of the year, when many anglers develop tunnel vision. It's when some anglers go after just one species of fish and head for bigger waters. When tunnel vision is developed, it means you're missing some of the finest early season fishing. Many of these...
Pre-spawn bass fishing best of year By By Larry Myhre
I watched the big single spin spinnerbait coming through the shallow water of the upper reaches of the Iowa farm pond. The big Colorado blade was pulsing and sending out flashes of chartreuse as the colored blade pumped through the scattered stick-ups and emerging...
“ICOMOLD” Helping Quik-Load Get their Product to Market
A certain number of our customers are entrepreneurs – inventors and marketers with an idea for solving a problem, and they invent a plastic product to do just that.Such is the case with Kevin Jensen of Quik Products, LLC, who came to us for help in turning his idea...