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This is the time of the year, just prior to the opening of the first hunting season that hunters in South Dakota, Nebraska, Western Iowa and Western Minnesota should take steps to make sure that their hunting dog’s are in good shape and ready for the upcoming hunting season.

Prior to the season, you and your dog will both need to get out and do some walking as well as spending some time running and working with your dog, insuring that he’s in shape and ready for that first long day in the field.

As anyone know whose hunted behind a dog that’s in good shape and well trained is  not only exciting, it’s also a whole lot more effective than simply wondering across a field hoping to stumble onto a bird.

Through out the years, I’ve hunted over all types of dogs and really had some great hunts as well as some really frustrating ones when a dog we were hunting behind was not under control.

I’ve also hunted with all types of hunters, from the very new to the seasoned pro and found out that some of these hunters could learn a lot about the sport by simply paying attention to their dog.

Take for instance one hunt in a huge CRP field where we were hunting with a yellow Lab.

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Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal
When the grandkids and I go fishing, we have only one rule.

Everybody must have fun.

That’s easy. What is more fun than pulling in fish. And Brown’s Lake is one of our favorite destinations. We were there about a week ago.

I suppose by a lot of fishermen’s standards, what we catch at Brown’s Lake would be small potatoes.

However, we feel any fish pulling on our line is a good time. We don’t care if it is a sheepshead, a catfish, a gar or one of the highly prized lunker largemouth bass which can be found here.

We just want to put fish in the boat.

Eric and Jessica Fluharty are no strangers to catching fish. They’ve been fishing with me since they’ve been big enough to hold a fishing rod.

Now, at age 17 and 15, they have become very proficient in the sport. Eric handles a casting rod better than most of my fishing friends and throws a cast net better than I do. Jessica, well, she handles her custom-made spinning rod (a grandpa special built to her “I want a sparkly rod” specifications) just fine, thank you.

Our Brown’s Lake angling approach, which works well on any of the oxbows, is fairly simple.

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