by Gary Howey | Apr 17, 2020 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
Team Outdoorsmen Productions member Larry Myhre holding a channel catfish caught early in the year using cutbait. (Gary Howey Photo) In the upper Midwest, we’re blessed with an abundance of fishable waters containing numerous species of fish....
by Gary Howey | Feb 6, 2020 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
When fishing for more aggressive fish such as pike, a medium heavy rod works well. The author and a Team Member were throwing lipless crankbaits in a lake near Webster, S.D. for walleye, when this pike made a pass at the bait and missed. Howey grabbed a medium...
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...
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...
by Gary Howey | Aug 31, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
Fall, When The Bite is on 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,...
