by Gary Howey | Aug 21, 2022 | "Of the Outdoors" Columns
Northern pike, while some people don’t care for them, there are others, like me, who enjoy the fight a hooked northern puts up, then there’s those anglers, because of the pike’s slime coat, that refuse l to bring them into the boat. My experience with Northerns...
by Gary Howey | Jul 13, 2021 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
When fishing on Oahe as well as other small rivers, you can be fishing for walleyes, with your drag set fairly light and have a big pike grab your bait. This is when Chuck Krause, Originally from Watertown, S.D. used his second drag and by putting pressure on the...
by Gary Howey | Jul 3, 2020 | Larry Myhre-IA
I’m not sure when Lindy came out with their Spin Rig, but I’m guessing sometime in the early to mid 1970s. But I became a fan of them right off the start. The Spin Rig is designed to present live bait, a minnow or chub or even a nightcrawler or leech. It came in many...
by Gary Howey | May 23, 2019 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
“Legendary Angler”, Chuck Krause, Gettysburg, South Dakota with a 20-pound walleye taken this spring from Lake Oahe near Gettysburg (Outdoorsmen Productions Photo) If you grew up in northeastern South Dakota as I did in Watertown, the first fish you...
by Gary Howey | Dec 8, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
My Mepps Aglia Long in-line spinner dropped into the fast moving water below Gavin’s Point Dam. To avoid becoming snagged up in the rocks, I held my rod trip high, reeling as quickly as I could as I retrieved the lure back downstream in the direction of...