With this warmer weather we’ve been having and before the freeze up, if you want to get into some excellent fishing, you best be ready as these mild temperatures won’t last long and soon winter will be on its way, bringing snow and the winter winds.

S.D. State Park Fees Increase Jan. 1

Winter has just arrived and even though it’s a ways off, I’m ready for spring and the warmer weather, giving me an opportunity to get outside.

S.D. Joins Other States In Promoting New Year’s Day Hikes

As we head into Christmas and the New Years, the pheasant hunting is going to be different from what it was during the early season. Most of those young, foolish roosters have been bagged. 

Every year around the first of December and in some years earlier, people start calling the office asking about ice fishing and where they’re biting.

This has been one of those years, where I was on the water very few times; first, it was radiation treatments beginning in late spring through most of the summer, so my fishing was minimal.

S.D. East River Deer Hunters Should Be Aware Of Wet Conditions

Neb. Firearm Deer Season Opens Nov. 16

When most folks think about turkey hunting, it’s the spring hunts where the hunter using calls and decoys brings the gobbler to him.

Our nation’s waters are under attack by an invasive species, Asian carp, and if we don’t do something quickly to stop or eliminate them, the consequence we’ll face could be the destruction of our fisheries.

Zebra Mussels Confirmed In Lake Francis Case

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

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

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.

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.