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,...
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 14, 2017 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
The bobber rig on the end of my line was about to reach the boat, when a dark shadow, a huge muskie rose up from the depths, paying little attention to my 1/16 ounce jig and leech as it slid by my lure and into the cabbage weed in the deep water. ...
by Gary Howey | Aug 6, 2015 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal HARTINGTON, Neb. | One thing I like about farm pond fishing is that ponds are generally loaded with fish. And the one Gary Howey and I were fishing just southwest of town was proving that it was no exception. When it comes to...
by Gary Howey | Jun 11, 2015 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns
ORTONVILLE, Minn. | Big Stone Lake is a 26-mile long fish factory. Long known for its excellent walleye fishing, and in the past few years an exploding perch population, few anglers are aware of the excellent fishing for other species. Take panfish, for instance. When...
