by Gary Howey | Aug 20, 2020 | Larry Myhre
During the mid-1970s when I made my first trips out West to fish the blue-ribbon waters of Montana and Yellowstone National Park, Dan Bailey’s Fly Shop was definitely a destination. I liked to fish the Yellowstone River where it swept through the appropriately-named...
by Gary Howey | Jul 2, 2020 | Larry Myhre-IA, Practical Flies Book
Of course I have no way of proving whether this is true or not, but I suspect the circulation of this little fly tying booklet probably exceeds any other ever printed. Lacey Gee and Erwin Sias published “Practical Flies and their Construction” in 1955. It continued to...
by Gary Howey | Apr 9, 2015 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns
The sun was beating down on this small, northern Ontario lake. But that was a good thing. It was only a few days after ice-out, and a warming sun often prompts big northern pike to put on the food bag. My friend and I had booked a two-week trip into a fly-in lake even...
by Gary Howey | Mar 19, 2015 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal Last summer was a milestone of sorts for two local fly anglers. They spent 10 days in the western part of Wyoming fishing for three subspecies of cutthroat trout in their native drainages. Most of their time was spent high in the...
