Bret getting worked by a very large brown trout.

a nicely proportioned trout from a spring creek just over an hour from home!

Not much insect activity on the surface where we fished yesterday, but again the fish were willing to eat a variety of nymphs.  Bret took a beautiful 20 inch brown on a small scud, and I fooled a few fish with both the ray charles and the pink squirrel.  We had a bit of trouble finding a spot without any other fisherman all morning.  Having to get to work last night by 4:00 kept us from venturing deeper into the Driftless, so we ended up fishing a creek in Rock County where we landed several very healthy brown trout.  Who knew that some of the larger trout in Wisconsin could be hiding in those creeks we often drive right past heading toward other more manicured streams with higher trout densities.  It seems that where there’s less trout, there’s bigger trout!

Fish in Driftless Area were easy to please this weekend.  They were eating just about any nymph we tried as well as leeches and even a little action on a foam beetle.  I didn’t see much bugs hatching, but there were a few crane flies floating around that were bringing some fish to the surface.  We didn’t catch anything huge, but we caught all the trout we could handle.

ray charles does it agian!