Walleye | Gary Howey's 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...

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,...

For Better Fishing Fish Water Releases Gary Howey

by Gary Howey | Apr 25, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

When I was a guide and tournament angler, I needed to use everything I could to help me catch fish when fishing was tough. There were numerous things affecting the bite, shutting the bite down or making it extremely hard to get a bite. Some...

Walleyes throughout the Season By Gary Howey

by Gary Howey | Apr 18, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field, Uncategorized

Open water anglers have been not so patiently waiting for the ice to come off the Missouri River reservoirs, and once it does, a mass migration towards the river begins as vehicles pulling boats head out to take advantage of the “Pre-Spawn” bite and...

Late Winter-Early Spring Walleye Tactics By Gary Howey

by Gary Howey | Mar 24, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

It may have not arrived as quick as we had hoped it would, but there is no doubt that winter is winding down. This year, we had one of those winters like the ones I used to see where I grew up back home, in Watertown, South Dakota when the snowdrifts...