2009-04-28_HoustonCounty
Conditions: Sunny, 65 degrees, light breeze. I accessed the creek at a bridge on a gravel road that shoots east off the highway. My intensions were to scout the creek downstream to the confluence with the river. This hike is about three quarters of a mile. I know the upper section of this creek intimately. [...]
2009-04-27_RootRiver
The world record Golden Redhorse was caught in the Root River in 2007 by Andy Geving. In this video I target Golden Redhorse with crawlers in a plunge pool. Golden Redhorse are often incorrectly identified by anglers. Most anglers accept them as carp. In southeast Minnesota most call them suckers. Only a keen few can [...]
2009-04-25_RootRiver
A master angler catches fish for mental health reasons. Typically the larger the fish the more mental health one gains. This time of the year in SE Minnesota’s Root River an angler can catch 40 fish over two pounds in one day. Of course this angler must be able. This video shows a few tricks [...]
2009-04-24_RootRiver
Each spring brings neat things to SE Minnesota. There are the hatching mayflies, flying caddis, blooming wildflowers, slurping trout and the annual run of Redhorse on the Root River. Watch this video and see what Minnesota’s World Class Root River has to offer anglers in late April.
Pronghorn Productions TV
This episode ran last week in Madison. We filmed it in March. I fished with Len Harris on that day. it was a good day for a new creek where there were many, many, many, willing trout. Enjoy this video. Len’s website is http://lenharris.blogspot.com/ Pronghorn Productions TV can be found at http://www.pronghornproductions.net/ Thanks to Len [...]
2009-04-18_WinnebagoCreek
Today I planned on going fishing with Shell. She had tied her own fly rod and her own box of flies now she just needed to get a Brown on a fly. She has caught many fish on a fly rod before however just not a Brown.
2009-04-16_RootRiver
Today Mikey and I put the canoe in at Lanesboro and paddled down to the take out on HIghway 16. We were seeking redhorse and suckers however ended up with trout and bass. The water is extremely low and it required us to pull the canoe through several riffles.
2009-04-10_RootRiver
Today Eric and I fished the Root looking for Suckers and Redhorse. We found a few White suckers anda lot of Brown Trout.
2009-04-04_CrookedCreek
I found this creek while scouting with my father opening weekend in 2003. Mayflies were coming off. I had never experienced a mayfly hatch like this in a spring creek in 20 seasons of Trout angling. This was my second season of owning an actual trout fly rod. I had several seasons swinging flies in [...]
2009-04-03_CrookedCreek
Our 400th image gallery!! Wes, Eric and I got out for some spring mayflies. We took fish on top all over as the hatch was great today. There were fish feeding to hatching mayflies in every run, riffle and pool. We encountered no other anglers out today.
2009-04-02_CrookedCreek
Today I headed south to get my annual Dark Hendrickson fix. The hatch was rather brief today however I managed several fish on top with #16 parachute adams. I switched over to a #2 Ugly Tom and caught several fish in the 14-18-inch range.
The mayflies are off.
here is a bit of video from Friday. 50 degrees and windy afforded me a creek to myself catching 64 trout in the afternoon.
