by Gary Howey | Mar 12, 2015 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal With a week’s worth of warm weather in the forecast, Gary Howey, Hartington, Neb., and I decided it was “now or never” time to fish a farm pond we’d had our eyes on for quite some time. Gary had fished it years ago and had great...
by Gary Howey | Feb 26, 2015 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal WATERTOWN, S.D. | It was beginning to look bad for the home team. We had been on the ice for about three hours and had only one walleye to show for it. And that one had been caught by our friend Chuck Krause, Gettysburg, S.D., who...
by Gary Howey | Feb 19, 2015 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal. The sun was beginning to paint a pink tinge on the eastern horizon. I sat near the top of the ridge, hunkered down into a small cedar tree. In front of me, about a block away the ridge line dropped away, and a stand of oaks...
by Gary Howey | Feb 5, 2015 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns
Reprinted from the SiouxCity Journal. It came charging in. It’s paws pounding the frozen soil so hard it sounded like a horse on the gallop. My thumb found the safety on my .243. I turned my head to see what was running in, and stared right into the face of a coyote...
by Gary Howey | Jan 18, 2015 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
Some folks may wonder about those of us who spend time ice fishing, to be honest with you, there are times I wonder about it myself. Wondering why we would leave a warm lodge when the wind chill is minus thirty degrees the answer is simple, we Love it! Last week our...