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Tagged With: wisconsin trout

A Perfect Day in the Driftless

I was in no hurry to get on a trout stream in the early morning last Sunday.  I was crossing foggy streams in the morning instead of arriving on one, but I was hoping for a good caddis hatch.  My experience has been the fishing doesn’t start to get good until you feel the warm sun on … Continue reading »

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Driftless Caddis 4/17/2016

Sometimes you head to your  favorite trout stream looking for a particular hatch and all the conditions seem right, and for some random reason of cruel fate, it never materializes.  This was not that day.  Everywhere you found rocks and riffles, you found Caddis popping and trout rising.  The heads of pools was where the action … Continue reading »

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Mothers Day Fun

For mothers day my lovely lady had the idea to get away and spend a night in a beautiful place just relaxing.  Our first idea was to go the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and hike around some waterfalls, but the weather had changed drastically and a cold front moved our plans west instead of straight … Continue reading »

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It Must Be Paradise

In Eagle, WI there is a spring fed pond or two which are open to fishing for trout starting in January.  The 10 day forecast was looking pretty grim so Anthony and I decided to drive through rain and snow knowing it would be the last day we could wet a line for the foreseeable future.  I rigged up … Continue reading »

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Hoppers

Andrew and I went to check out some spring creek hopper fishing on Sunday, but the weather was cool and cloudy and the hoppers never started hopping.  We could see plenty of hoppers in the tall grass along the creeks acting kind of lethargic.  In my experience it takes some good sunshine to get them bouncing … Continue reading »

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Driftless Area Trout Fishing 6/13/2014

Not often do I get enough time to spend more than half of a day fishing in the Driftless Area, but over the weekend I was able to stay the night on a favorite trout stream in Vernon County.  Brett had already been bouncing around creeks for a day before I had arrived and said the fishing … Continue reading »

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