Gary Howey’s Outdoors
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
Living the catfish dream on the Red River By Larry Myhre
Reprinted from the Sioux City JournalFor many Siouxland catfish anglers, North Dakota’s Red River is the place where dreams are made. It is where hundreds of dedicated cat men trek to each year to...
Walleyes/Sauger Throughout the Spawn By Gary Howey
This week's column, will deal with one of the upper Midwest most popular gamefish, the walleye and their smaller cousin found in the Missouri River, the sauger. In the spring, walleye and sauger...
Early walleye fishing success is about timing By Larry Myhre
For those chomping at the bit to go walleye fishing, your best bet is fishing along the Missouri River.Pre-spawn walleyes will be staging below the dams all up and down the river. And anglers will...
Turkey Hunting When things don’t work Gary Howey
No matter what type of outdoor activity you are into, windy, cold, damp days can put an end to most activities, sometimes before they start! This especially true when it comes to a spring turkey...