by Gary Howey | Oct 5, 2017 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
It will not be long before the upland Game Bird season opens up. Several of the states are reporting that their pheasant numbers are down. I have talked with several wildlife biologists about this and they have given several reasons for the decrease in...
by Gary Howey | Sep 20, 2017 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
Deer hunting has always been something that enthralled me; one of those adventures I had heard and read about, but never had the pleasure of getting out and doing. The main reason I did not know much about deer hunting was that my Dad did not have a...
by Gary Howey | Aug 16, 2017 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
The early upland game bird hunting seasons are just around the corner and the bird surveys that have been completed on the sharptail grouse and the prairie chicken seem to indicate good numbers of both species. In South Dakota, the lek count indicates...
by Gary Howey | Jun 26, 2017 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa — It was shaping up to be a picture perfect, bluebird day. The sun glinted off the calm surface of Emersons Bay on Big West Lake Okoboji as fishing guide John Grosvenor put the hammer down on his big Skeeter WX2060....
by Gary Howey | Jun 10, 2017 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
What does it take to have the ability to take dozens of paralyzed veterans and other individuals fishing on the Missouri River? It’s a monumental task, which is pulled off each year in the Missouri River waters adjacent to Chamberlain/Oacoma, S.D. ...
