Editor’s note: Here is your chance to tell your story about your team, your school or your favorite player. If you’d like to join The Gazette’s growing list of high school contributors, contact J.R. Ogden at jr.ogden@thegazette.com By Jacob Doyle, Monticello senior MONTICELLO – Imagine a place you can be truly free. Imagine paradise. For [...]
continue »WILLIAMS, Minn. — You’d hate to think that experiencing ambient air temperature of 40 degrees below zero would be the highlight of four days’ ice fishing in the “Walleye Capital of the World.” But for me and six fishing buddies, the memory of our unprecedented exposure to such frigid air will outlast our recollections of [...]
continue »One month into 2013, it’s time for a checkup. As in, how are those New Year resolutions going? You know the ones — losing a few pounds gained over the holidays, getting back in shape, starting a new challenge? I’ve discovered a couple of things during my recent excursions on some frigid mornings, always a [...]
continue »Ice fishing will never replace open-water angling in my affections, but it will do until spring returns. Three of the biggest thrills of open-water angling — the detection of the bite, the hookset and the battle — are substantially subdued in ice fishing. And, of course, personal comfort is harder to come by when the [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS — After finishing a close second last year and in the top five in the preceding three years, Brad Teel of Independence finally won the Cedar Rapids Bassmasters’ fisherman of the year title in 2012. Teel, 31, speaking Wednesday evening at the club’s annual awards banquet, said it’s an honor to have his [...]
continue »I fish about 100 days a year. My 26 year old son, Fred, who is not exactly a chip off the old block, fishes just one, which this year was last Saturday. Fred, who lives in Ames with his wife and year-old son, says it’s all about spending quality time with me — a concept [...]
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Officials say fish kills blamed on high heat and the lack of rain have been reported across Iowa. Hundreds of fish in the pond near West Des Moines City Hall died over the weekend, most likely from a lack of oxygen. The weather was blamed for killing hundreds of fish in eastern Iowa’s Swan Lake [...]
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QUASQUETON — Lowell Walter had a man cave at least 50 years before the expression came into vogue. No big flat-screen TV, sports memorabilia or lavish bar. Just an elegant brick pavilion complete with fireplace, sleeping and lounging quarters, storage and launching facilities for his boat and a deck overlooking the scenic Wapsipinicon River — [...]
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If it has been quiet at Lake Wobegon, as Garrison Keillor frequently notes in his “Prairie Home Companion” monologues, it has been especially quiet at Lake Totallygone. Whereas the residents of Keillor’s fictional community still have their lake, the residents of more than 800 Lake Delhi homes have only a slim stream surrounded by weed-choked [...]
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DURANGO — Mike Jacobs had my back during a float trip Sunday on the Little Maquoketa River, which is to say he came along behind me and caught all the big smallmouth bass I had missed. While that could be perceived as an affront to my angling skill, it was not. The main reason it [...]
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