Wisconsin Fishing Steelhead and Brown Trout Report
We've had some exceptionally large steelhead this past week, but overall the fishing continues to be pretty solid for the most part. Some days we're landing 2-7 fish per trip and other days we landed 14-32 fish per trip. Lots of steelhead this year so far. The numbers of browns are down a...
Brown Trout and Steelhead Ice fishing / Open water
This past month has been fantastic for browns and steelhead fishing both through the ice and open water fishing. I have not seen such great numbers of steelhead returns ever and these steelies fight like crazy through the ice!!! In the past month I have been running both open water and Ice tri...
Milwauke Harbor Brown Trout and steelhead fishing
Well finally have some time to catch up on some postings now that the weather and conditions are a bit crappy. The past month has been exceptional for me down in the harbors and river with our best day at 62 fish and many days in the 30-40+ fish. Lots of fun almost all on spinning tackle either ...
Milwaukee Browns 11/29
The weather was too nasty on Wednesday to winterize the boat and too nice on Saturday not to give it one more try. Set lines at first light in 35fow out of the North Gap finding some marks and temp down to 45.5 on the surface. Trolled that contour and no bites until a shaker on a 3 color and reg...
Steelhead Fishing In Wisconsin
Made it out several time in the past few weeks and the steelhead fishing has been good to excellent. With the warmer temps fish are still aggressive in the river and many fish have been hitting fly's. We've also been doing a lot of float fishing with spawn, jigs tubes etc.. and taken many f...
Big Lakes
Ted Kirkpatrick and I hit a trib to the Big Lakes today. Ted was using a Center pin with spawn sacs and I was throwing spinner. The first cast with my trusty Mepps See Best I had a hook up with a sweet steelhead hen right near shore. That was about a 5 second deal. I guess the steelie to be abou...
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...
