Driftless Area Greatest Hits 2009
The first day of season in March usually is a good day. A little bit cold but the trout usually are anxious to put a bend on my rod or my fishing partner's rod. My friend Bruce Ristow with an opening day brown from a very tiny stream. Bruce was throwing a size 3 blue fox. It usually takes ...
Joe *dirt* Chadwick
Joe Chadwick called me at about 4pm tonight. He wanted to go catch some more brooders at Castle Rock Creek in Grant County. It is about 40 minutes south of us so I was reluctant to go. He guilted me in to it. He said with the season ending here on Wednesday it might be out last chance. The...
Trout Fishing, Bear Creeks, NE Iowa
It was a picture perfect day as I made my way up to NE Iowa to do some trout fishing for a few days. The weather greeted my with some morning rain as well as fog and cool temps. By the time I had arrived at my first destination the rain had all but subsided and the fog was beginning to lift. The...
Floren Goetsch & I went out this afternoon
Floren Goetsch is from Racine, WI and camps once a year in September near Richland Center. He has been in the area for 6 days. He finally wore me down and we went fishing this afternoon for 3 hours. Floren and I have been fishing together once each fall for 6 years now. He fly fishes with...
The magical rain
I wander for quite some time. I was about to give up. The stream was really narrow. I decided near the end of the year I wanted to find some head water brookies. I had decided 20 more yards and I was turning back. Then there was the hole. It was leave cover and about 6 feet deep on the edge...
Rich Femling & I Fished
New water I had never fished. Was way upstream at the headwater. The water was icy cold and very clear. The troutwere very skidish. We went out this morning and a littleof early afternoon. Rich landed 25 onthe girdle bug. He caught a mixtureof browns and brooks. Biggest brownwas 14ish and ...
Fishing With The General
Coach Knight and Bob Skoronski hit the stream at 7am this morning. Bob S. and I watched Coach fish. Coach landed 27 trout today. A mixture of brooks and browns. Nothing huge. The Coach used many different flies today but ONLY caught trout on a girdle bug. We are going out for the AM...
Dick Dragiewicz and I fished the Driftless Area th
Dick was using a new fly he invented. It is a size 6 hook with lots of silver tinsel on it tied fully. Dick put a small split shot 10 inches up and dredges current lines. Right after I took this photo Dick caught his first trout of the day. Dick called his fly he tied a Mepps Spinner. It ...
Small Stream Trout Fishing
Went out with my buddy Andy Kurth yesterday. Had had a banner day fishing hoppers and a lite brite biot nymph dropper. Andy landing his biggest brookie to date on the nymph dropper. All I have of this trout is an action shot. It slipped out of Andy's hand before I could get a glory shot. The...
Milwaukee Harbor- Kings and Browns
Had some incredible action yesterday evening just about as fast as you could drop the jig down you had a screamer on!!!!
Also the brown trout are in thick in some spots and the action has been awesome saw several fish in that20-25 lb class just incredible fish! Hooked a few more dandy browns t...
Big Browns are Back!!
The brown trout bite is going fantastic now, it was hard to leave those kings but when the king bite slowed down a bit we went after some browns. Found a ton of fish and they cooperated very well for us. The key is locating the fish, then the hard part is figuring out what they want to eat.Thi...
Big Spring Trout Fishing
What a great weekend for fishing here in Iowa. The early morning temps were in the low to mid 60's, the wind was very light, 5 mph. I had the great opportunity to take a new fly fisher out for her first trout. We arrived at the Manchester Iowa fish hatchery mid morning. Armed with fly's, flyrods...
Daytona Florida. 3-09
Spring break, Daytona Florida and a little fishing. What a place to be. A business meeting in Daytona was the main reason for going on this trip but it was the perfect chance to spend a few extra days and check out some local fishing.
Day one found myself, my dad and a good friend of the famil...
Big Laker's- Whitefish- coho's- steelies- pike ...
Well I had a day this past week that I will never forget! I caught my personal best laker jigging, I've caught a few lakers bigger trolling but to me this was way more enjoyable and more of a challenge! Not too often you have the chance to get on a big pod of lakers out in the lake but I did a l...
March Madness!!! Salmon and Brown Trout
Was out this past week everyday and sometimes twice a day doing multiple trips with clients. Fishing has been very consistent and we've been getting some very BIG browns this past week in the upper teens, along with our first salmon of the year which was really cool! Cranks, gulp, spawn, spoons,...
