2009-02-28_PossumCreek
You’ll have to excuse me for this as I do not care to name this creek anything other than Possum Creek. It is named for the Possum that my friend at Winona Fly Factory treed one day while scouting it. Its not that its the best creek in the region or even the worst however [...]
Black Wooly Bugger
The Black Wooly Bugger. This is a standard streamer pattern for all fly fishing situations.
2009-02-22_PossumCreek
Today I scouted some new water with my girlfriend, her dog, and my buddy Justin, his girlfriend, and his dog. Since we were scouting we did not care to catch fish merely to see them. We saw them. Picking rocks I found that I should, prior to my return, tie up some size 16 scuds [...]
Great Ragweed
Great Ragweed, Ambrosia trifida, Sunflower Family (Asteraceae) Description: A tall, rough, hairy plant with nodding heads of minute green flowers arranged in elongated clusters. Flowers: similiar to those of Common Ragweed; clusters 1-10″ (2.5-25 cm) long. Leaves: up to 8″ (20 cm) long, opposite, palmately 3-lobed. Fruit: beaked, with 4-10 short points. Height: 2-15′ (60-450 [...]
Jack-in-the Pulpit
Jack-in-the pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum, Arum Family (Arcaceae) Description: Distinctive “Jack-in-the pulpit” formation grows beneath large leaves. Flowers: curving ridged hood (the spathe or “pulpit”), green or purplish-brown, often streaked or mottled, envelops an erect club (the spadi or “Jack”) 2-3″ (5-7.5 cm) long. Spadix bears tiny seperate male and female flowers at the base. Leaves: [...]
False Nettle
False Nettle, Boehmaria cylindica, Nettle Family (Urticaceae) Description: Tiny greenigh flowers are in small, head-like clusters, arranged in continuous or interrupted spikes in the axils of opposite leaves. Plant lacks stinging hairs. Flowers: less than 1/12″ (2 mm) long; males flowers usually in interrupted spikes, with calyx 4-parted, stamens 4; female flowers mostly in continuous [...]
Virginia Bluebells
Virginia Bluebells, mertensia virinica Forget-me-not Family (Boraginaceae) Description: Erect plant with smooth gray-green foliage and nodding clusers of pink buds that open into light blue trumprt shaped flowers. Flowers: about 1″(2.5cm) long; corolla 5-lobed. Leaves: basal leaves 2-8″ (20-60cm) long; stem leaves smaller, alternate, oval unthoothed. Height: 8-24″(20-60cm). Flowering: March – June Habitat: Moist woods; [...]
Wood Nettle
Wood Nettle, Laportea canadensis, Nettle Family (Urticaceae) Description: Clusters of small, greenish flowers are in the leaf axils on a stout stem with stinging hairs; female flowers are in loose, elongated clusters in upper ails; male flowers in shorter clusters in lower axils. Flowers: about 1/6″ (4 mm) long; female with 4 sepals, 1 pistil; [...]
Stinging Nettle
Stinging Nettle, Urtica dioica, Nettle Family (Uriticaceae) Description: A 4-angled stem, covered with many bristly, stinging hairs, has slender, branching, feathery clusters of minute greenish flowers in the leaf axils. Flowers are unisexual, with either male or female on a given plant, or on the same plant with males in upper leaf axils, females lower. [...]
Marijuana
Marijuana; Hemp, Cannabis sativa, Hemp Family (Cannabinaceae) Description: Coarse, branching plant with erect stems and clusters of small greenish flowers in the leaf axis. Flowers: to 1/8″ (3 mm) wide; male and female on seperate plants. Leaves: palmately divided, hairy, with 5-7 long narrow, coarsely toothed, tapering leaflets 2-6″ (5-15 cm) long. Height: 3-10′ (90-300 [...]
Adams Dry Fly
This is America’s best known fly pattern. This video requires Quicktime. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Common Ragweed
Common Ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Sunflower Family (Asteraceae) Description: Coarse, hairy- stemmed annual with inconspicuous flowers in elongated clusters. Flowers: male, small yellow-green, packed with yellow stamens, borne in heads of 15-20 florets each, arranged on slender clusters 1-6″ (2.5-15 cm) long, near top of plant (hundreds of heads per plant); female, small clusters in small [...]
Dutchman’s Breeches
Dicentra cucullaria Poppy Family(Papaveraceae) Description:Clusters of fragrant, white, pantaloon-shaped flowers are on a leavless stalk and overtop the much divided, feathery basal leaves. Flowers: 3/4″ (2cm) long; petals 4, the 2 outer ones with inflated spurs forming a V that results in the unique floral shape. Leaves: 3-6″ (7.5-15cm) lnog, compound, long stalked, grayish-green above, [...]
2009-02-07_DuscheeCreek
Today I had the time to make it over to Filmore County to find a popular creek all to myself. The midge were coming off and the day was a balmy 40 degrees. The fish were holding in their usual haunt. The largest and prettiest fish of the day was caught when the video camera [...]