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With all that's going on in our country and the world over the last few weeks with the coronavirus and it's results, from empty shelves at grocery stores from panic buying to "social distancing" and staying away from groups or the cancelling of events nationwide, things can feel chaotic and like they are spiraling out of control. There is also an atmosphere of fear due to a lack of understanding of the virus, which changes daily. States and cities are trying to adapt the best

The end is slowly drawing near on the ice season around the Black Hills. While a few higher lakes are still good for both ice thickness and access, but many other lakes are opening or seeing shore access to ice going away. While the late ice season tends to be pretty good as far as the bite goes, it is a bit off right now, but could improve for the lakes that still have ice on them in the next couple of weeks or so. Many anglers are already gearing up their boats or have put

Our friends from East River (most of us South Dakotans refer to where we live on either side of the Missouri River as either "West River" or "East River") came up for another ice fishing trip recently and, while the fishing has been tough, I was still hopeful that we could get on some fish. Well the first morning we swung for the fences and tried going after Lake Trout on Pactola Reservior. It was a swing and a miss since we didn't mark a fish, but we only had a few hours to