by Gary Howey | Aug 23, 2021 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns, Larry Myhre-IA
It started like this. A cane pole and the Big Sioux River. Eleven years later I would get my first boat and my fishing horizons would expand forever. (Photo by my mom) Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal As you go through life, you will experience many firsts. Most...
by Gary Howey | Aug 3, 2021 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
Pro Angler Ted Takasaki, South Dakota with one of the larger lake trout caught while ice fishing Sheridan Lake near Deadwood, S.D. Most folks are familiar with Deadwood, South Dakota, its history, its old west historic community in the Black Hills,...
by Gary Howey | Apr 28, 2021 | Larry Myhre-IA
These finesse rigs have taken bass fishing to a new level. Upper left is a Tokyo Rig with a curly tail grub. Upper right is another version of the Tokyo Rig with a swimbait rigged weedless. Lower left is the Ned Rig and lower right is the Neco Rig. (Larry Myhre Photo)...
by Gary Howey | Jul 24, 2020 | Larry Myhre
I took this photo a few years ago to illustrate a column I was doing on the joys of making your own fishing tackle. Everything in the photo was made by me including making the jig molds to pour the jigs and paint them. I started tying flies in the mid ‘60s and it is a...
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...