by Gary Howey | May 15, 2022 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field, Zebra Mussels
Zebra mussels are not large, but the damage they do to a body of water is huge, causing tremendous environmental problems as they expand their way throughout the upper Midwest. (Photo courtesy of the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks) It’s spring where spending...
by Gary Howey | Aug 6, 2020 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
When I was a kid, growing up a block away from the Big Sioux River in Watertown, South Dakota, each spring, there was always the spring carp and buffalo runs which brought hundreds of these rough fish up river to spawn. We speared them, which was...
by Gary Howey | Jun 18, 2020 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field
As a kid growing up, the author Gary Howey spent numerous hours along the Sioux River, only a block from our house, building forts, as these kids are doing, fishing and just goofing around. As long as we were home in time for meals and respected our parents and...