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Return to Lake of the Woods’

by Gary Howey | Oct 5, 2019 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

Someone yelled, “Fish on” as I looked towards Team Member Larry Myhre. It was obvious he had hooked a big fish. He was fishing off the stern of Zippel Bay’s 32-foot launch. With his rod bent in half, he did his best to control and bring...

“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...