The Northern Hog Sucker
The Root River is home to a very biodiverse ecosystem. One that includes the elusive native Northern Hog Sucker. This fish loves the current and is shaped justly. I was fishing with crawlers and 1 ounce of lead in flood stage flows near Eagle Cliff campground and caught about a dozen of these guys today [...]
2008-04-15_WhitewaterRiver
Bella had a rough night last night. Something got into her that left her shaking and uncomfortable. She needed to go fishing. We headed west into the county and ended up at Beaver Bridge in the Whitewater Management Area. The water was high and fast. I put on an ounce of lead and fished the [...]
2008-04-13_SouthBranchRootRiver
Sunday. Two cars, two boats, four people and three life jackets; We gathered on the west side of town waiting on an additional life jacket. Between the four of us, Mikey, Nate, Amy J, and myself, we have the combined adventure of a herd of Mountain Goats. None of us had the balls to run [...]
2008-04-12_Rush Creek
It’s trout opener and the Root River is running at 5500-cfs, the temperature is hovering near the freezing point, and the wind is blowing as Jack Frost released his final breaths of the year from the Canadian Arctic. We started at Gribben Creek where the brown water from the Root was backed up into the [...]
2008-04-06_Crooked Creek
Shell and I decided that the weather was right to head south to Crooked Creek in search of emerging mayflies. We got out of town a bit late and ended up stream side by 3pm. We found every access on the stream to have a car parked at it so we headed to our old [...]
2008-04-03_Pine Creek
Today I met Brad on Pine Creek. We figured we’d better get our fill of this creek before the trout harvest opener as it gets hit pretty hard. It was windy in this part of the valley. Our plan was to hike upstream through the State Forest in search of new water to catch fish [...]