by Gary Howey | Mar 19, 2015 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
I was keeping an eye on the weather, as we needed cold weather in order to get back into the dam we hoped to ice fish, but didn’t need any sub zero temperatures or heavy wind. I was looking at ice fishing a pond southwest of town, one that was in the middle of a...
by Gary Howey | Mar 12, 2015 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
My hometown is Watertown, S.D. a place I return to as often as I can. A couple of weeks ago, we headed back north to ice fish on a few of the dozens of lakes and sloughs scattered throughout the Watertown area. Anyone who has spent time on the ice where the northerns...
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 | Mar 9, 2015 | South Dakota, State Records
Chase Jensen, Aurora, S.D. with the 2.86 pound potential State record Perch caught on Bitter in N.E. South Dakota. Team Outdoorsmen Adventures member Don Fjerstad, Watertown, South Dakota, the Host of KWAT Outdoors sent us this photo of a potential new South...
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...