by Gary Howey | Mar 13, 2024 | Canada, Carroll Lake Lodge-Ontario
Author with a Northern that latched onto a smaller Walleye when fishing at Carroll Lake Lodge in Canada, without the drag set properly, it would have broken the line. (Photo by Larry Myhre) No matter, what you’re fishing for, every reel has some sort of a drag: star,...
by Gary Howey | Nov 25, 2019 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
Today we have sunny skies 50 degrees, hard to believe it’s the end of November. Whats really hard to believe is tomorrow we have 6″ to 9″ of snow predicted with rain and ice possible. I like ice, for fishing, not on our roads and streets. I have...
by Gary Howey | Mar 15, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
The red line below my tungsten jig on my Vexilar locator rose up from the bottom slowly indicating a fish was moving up to my bait. Peering down into the clear water, I could see the perch moving up to the same level as my jig. I twitched my bait ever so slightly as...
by Gary Howey | Mar 12, 2015 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
My hometown is Watertown, S.D. a place I return to as often as I can. A couple of weeks ago, we headed back north to ice fish on a few of the dozens of lakes and sloughs scattered throughout the Watertown area. Anyone who has spent time on the ice where the northerns...
by Gary Howey | Mar 9, 2015 | South Dakota, State Records
Chase Jensen, Aurora, S.D. with the 2.86 pound potential State record Perch caught on Bitter in N.E. South Dakota. Team Outdoorsmen Adventures member Don Fjerstad, Watertown, South Dakota, the Host of KWAT Outdoors sent us this photo of a potential new South...