Found a news release I want to share with you, last fall at the end of the summer irrigation drawdown, there were some boat ramp improvements done at Davis Creek Reservoir: LLNRD announces better access at Davis Creek New outdoor opportunities are coming to Davis Creek Recreation Area, located south of North Loup inValley County, thanks to an on-going partnership between theLower Loup Natural Resources District and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Lower Loup NRD has obtained funding through the …
Read More »Fall Review, 2017
We are well into December now and I am starting to get impatient for fishable ice! Does not look like that is coming in the next few days, but am hearing some talk about colder weather maybe a couple weeks from now. I sure hope so! Regardless, my open-water fishing for this year is winding down; I may still make a trip or two more depending on weather conditions, but right now I would rather be walking on the water. …
Read More »Adventure Report, Yes, It Is Summer
I have been a few places the past couple weeks, need to give you a little report on what I have been seeing on the water. . . . Reservoir White Bass I had a couple of evenings on Calamus Reservoir and as is often the case there, on one I got stormed out. I will fish in about any conditions except when the lightning starts flashing. I have been on Calamus enough times with thunderstorms approaching to know that …
Read More »Back in the Saddle
I am all fishing, all the time, except when the turkeys are gobbling in the spring. I just cannot get enough of hunting those big, beautiful Toms. So, the past few weeks I have to admit to you that I have been fishing very little. But, Nebraska’s spring turkey season 2016 is now in the rear-view mirror, and it is time to get back on the water! This past weekend, a holiday weekend, was a great one to do that, …
Read More »Adventure Report, August 28, 2013
Got a fishing report to give you, but let me give a little background to the story. Back in the mid-1990’s I worked for a couple of years in our newly-established fisheries management office in south-central Nebraska. That region included much of the the Tri-County canal and reservoirs on that canal. In the years I was there we were not able to spend much time on the canal reservoirs, but from what we knew of the high flow-through rates and …
Read More »Adventure Report, July 17, 2013
The past couple of weeks have been busy and I have traveled to several corners of our great state. Time to give you a report on what I have been doing, mostly show some pictures, and oh yes, tell you about some fishing. . . . Most years I end up spending the 4th of July holiday with my family in Valentine. That has been a tradition for about as long as I can remember. This year was no exception …
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