by Gary Howey | May 29, 2015 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal. GRAND FORKS, N.D. | It was the Mother of All Cold Fronts that swept through Grand Forks, N.D., and other parts north a couple of weeks ago. “The river is up about 13 feet from where it was a week ago,” Brad Durick told me over...
by Gary Howey | May 26, 2015 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
As Ben Loecker and I watched, we could see three Toms fanned out and proudly displaying for their harems. The birds were displaying about a half mile south of us in a harvested bean field, it wasn’t the half-mile walk that I was thinking about; it was how to get...
by Gary Howey | May 14, 2015 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
This is the time of the year when many anglers develop tunnel vision, thinking only of walleyes and fishing on the bigger water! When you do this, it means that you are missing some of the finest early season fishing. Many of these anglers will be running great...
by Gary Howey | May 14, 2015 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal. It’s moments like this that make me love turkey hunting. The response to my yelps on the diaphragm call was loud and raucous. It was the guttural cough of a wild turkey’s gobble. Then another followed immediately after. I...
by Gary Howey | Apr 30, 2015 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
I love springtime, weather is warming up, fish are starting to bite and it is the time of the year when thousands of folks and I head out to start looking for those wild edibles mushrooms and asparagus. My first experience at hunting wild asparagus happened by...