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“Of the Outdoors” Legends in the Outdoors Chuck Krause By Gary Howey

by Gary Howey | May 10, 2019 | "Of the Outdoors" Columns, Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

For thirty-nine years, I’ve been an outdoor communicator and fortunate to have met and spent time with some truly exceptional outdoorsmen and women: guides, outdoor educators, tournament anglers, seminar presenters and radio/television personalities who’s...

“Of the 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...