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“Of the Outdoors” Bluegills, Sunnies the Panfish by Gary Howey

by Gary Howey | Mar 17, 2019 | "Of the Outdoors" Columns

Dave Genz, Minnesota, the father of mobile ice fishing with one of the big bluegill he and author caught while ice fishing on the Valentine Refuge lakes in Nebraska. (Contributed photo) If I were to not mention panfish such as the bluegill in the fish series...

“Of the Outdoors” In-Line Spinners

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...

Fall, When The Bite is on

by Gary Howey | Aug 31, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

It is hard to believe that the summer is gone and we are heading into the fall, it seems like just a week or so ago, that school was out and summer had just begun. Well, it is that time of the year, the time our kids are back to school, temperatures should start...

Jigging- The Method that works on all Game Fish By Gary Howey

by Gary Howey | Jul 26, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

When I do my seminars throughout the upper Midwest, I talk to a lot of anglers and at one, I had several anglers tell me that they either had trouble fishing a jig or had not used them much as they did not have the time needed to learn how. I told them,...

Iowa Great Lakes are a multi-species paradise By Larry Myhre Team Outdoorsmen Adventures

by Heartland Hosting, LLC | 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....