Tagged With: Wisconsin Fishing
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
Spring Swinging
Hit the Milwaukee with Adam a few weeks back and we experienced something out of the ordinary…great fishing. Even though the water was high, cold, and slowly rising all day from snow melt, the Steelhead were in and on the grab…bigly. Water clarity was great and very few anglers were on the water giving us plenty of … Continue reading
Paradise Lost and Something Found
A little late picking up on this story, but if you haven’t already heard the sad news, here it is. A dam failure June 20th, 2015 caused Paradise Springs in Eagle, WI to drain. Most trout escaped through a cracked hole in the dam and wound up in the creek flowing from it. Some probably … Continue reading
Menominee Day Trip
I can’t count the hours Anthony, Andrew, and myself have sat around tables, fly vises, fire pits or other gatherings to discuss us all making a trip to the Menominee. We finally made that a reality on 7-31 when the stars aligned and allowed us a shared Sunday void of any true responsibility. We took … Continue reading
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
North Woods Bronzebacks
I definitely caught Smallmouth fever this Summer, and as far as I can tell, I’m stricken for life. As hard as it is to walk away from trout rising to hoppers and terrestrials in the Driftless area during the summer, I’ve been growing increasingly fond of the Smallmouth waters in the North Woods where I spent Summer’s with my Grandparent’s. … Continue reading