As we came up into the waters surging through Gavin’s Point Dam, it was obvious that the 2019 Paddlefish season was underway, with “hundreds” of anglers lining the shore.
S.D. GFP Comm. Increases Park & Camping Fees
Big Sioux Reopens To Recreation; Lake Herman SP Opens
By Gary Howey
CANTON — Newton Hills State Park near Canton will host the 20th annual FestiFall on Oct. 5 from 1-5 p.m. The event features arts and crafts, kid’s activities and musical entertainment.
Governor Proclaims Sept. 28 As National Hunting & Fishing Day In Nebraska
It won’t be long the enthusiasm is already starting to build. There are commercials on TV, ads in the papers and even special flyers pertaining to this upcoming event.
PIERRE — The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) will host the 54th annual Buffalo Roundup and 26th annual Arts Festival in Custer State Park later this month. The Buffalo Roundup begins at 9:30 a.m. MDT on Friday, Sept. 27. The Arts Festival will run from Thursday, Sept. 2…
Locations Of Some Missouri River Outdoor Expo Activities Will Change Because Of High Water Levels
I’ve hunted for as long as I can remember, cherishing every trip and the memories these trips created!
LINCOLN, Neb. — Due to concerns of high water levels and water flow rates impacting levees and properties along the Missouri River from mile markers 750 (Sioux City) through 498 (Rulo), and the potential for those impacts to be aggravated by passing vessel traffic, the Coast Guard and Army C…
High Water Causes S.D. GFP To Declare No Wake Zones
The catfish didn’t mess around, hitting the bait hard, as Larry Starman, Wynot, Nebraska picked up his rod, setting the hook, with rod bending over, indicating a good fish.
Over the years, my predator calling buddies, Larry Myhre, Bill Christensen, Simon Fuller, Ben Bearshield and I have spent hours calling predators in Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa and had predators sneak in on us while hunting other states for turkey.
Youth Sportsfest Sept. 14
Trail or game cameras have become a huge part of the deer hunters and wildlife management organization’s arsenal, and because of because of the new technology the cameras have changed dramatically.
Lewis & Clark SRA To Offer Family Fun Over Labor Day Weekend
As fall approaches, duck and goose hunters are starting to think about all that needs worked on before the season even opens.
Limited Number Of Paddlefish Snagging Permits Available For Purchase
Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time setting at boat ramps launching and loading my boat.
Pet Owners Should Be Aware of Blue-Green Algae
If you are reading through a fishing publications or watching some fishing show that structure isn’t brought up and you can bet if you locate the structure in a body of water, you’re going to find the fish related to it
As I mentioned before, doing what I do for a job, has given me excellent opportunities to spend time with some of the true legends in the outdoors, those I’ve written about in our Legends in the Outdoors columns as well as others.
Snakes Of Nebraska Event July 20-21 At Schramm Education Center
It’s hard to believe that July 4 has come and gone, and that summer is going by so quickly.
As a youngster, growing up in South Dakota, I was fortunate to have some adults that took the time, to share their love of the outdoors with me.
They can be big, bad and ugly and found lurking on the bottom of just about every body of water in the upper Midwest.
Free Fishing, Free Park Entrance On Father’s Day
It had been one miserable spring turkey season, with downpours and heavy winds for weeks at a time, making it tough not only to call birds, even tougher to get to them.
S.D. Clay Target Tournament This Weekend
I know most of you have heard that 10% of the water holds 90% of the fish and I know this for a fact, as many times while out fishing, I know I have spent too much time fishing that 90% of the water that did not hold fish.
No Wake Zone Declared For Turner County’s Swan Lake
If you grew up in northeastern South Dakota as I did, the first fish you tangled with and probably lost was the northern pike, the Sioux River just a block from our home and numerous other bodies of water in the Glacial Lakes area had excellent northern numbers.
Most Neb. Park Areas Open For Memorial Day Weekend
PIERRE — South Dakota fisheries biologists are voiding the state’s oldest record fish, a channel catfish caught by Roy Groves in 1949. The record will be opened due to a seventy year old fish misidentification.
Springtime is when Mother Nature’s really shines, when you will see her garden starts to appear.
Register For Lewis & Clark’s Becoming An Outdoors Family Event
If you are from Northeastern South Dakota and listen to Team Outdoorsmen Adventures Don Fjerstad’s KWAT Outdoors Radio show every Thursday, you’ve heard this Legend in the Outdoors.
The spring turkey season is here with the bow hunters doing well who were hunting gobblers this past month.
Big Sioux Recreation Area Re-Opens
This is the second in our “Legends in the Outdoors” columns. This week we highlight the life of our good friend the late Jim McDonnell, of Royal, Iowa.
Big Sioux River, Split Rock Creek & Skunk Creek Reopen
The Tom turkey, the gobbler are on the run in the spring keeping very busy, strutting, and doing their best to impress the ladies, fighting off other Toms who try to cut into their action and to doing all the other things turkeys do.
LINCOLN, Neb. — The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission urges the public to stay off of rivers affected by recent flooding.
Flooding Closes Portion Of Lake Vermillion Recreation Area
PIERRE — Beginning in April, the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) will launch a series of Live Trapping 101 classes to provide education on trapping wildlife; primarily nest predators like red fox, striped skunk, badgers, raccoons and opossums.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series of columns profiling well-known men and women from throughout the Upper Midwest.
I would probably upset a few anglers if I were to not mention panfish such as the bluegill in the fish series I’ve been writing, as bluegill are another of those fish that has quite a following.
Bald Eagle Awareness Days Events: Feb. 22-23
As the hunters neared the center of the field, several birds came up out of the cover, Micah Likness (Yankton) as well as others, yelled “Rooster”, allowing those hunters on either side and those blocking know that they were shootable birds.
This winter, I’ve plans to do some predator calling and ice fishing, but looking forward to and counting the days until spring arrives.
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