Starker goes fishing
Starker is just 18 months old however his competence being outdoors is advanced. Today we decided to go fishing in temperatures that neared 50 degrees. Starker did get to get his hands on his first German Brown Trout in Winona County.
2011-01-09_PossumCreekWinonaCounty
Today I set out to fish a section of creek that I never fished in the winter. With my list of winter creeks that I have fished being longer than my list of creeks I haven’t fished it was easy to deduce where I would end up today. The forecasted air temps lead me to [...]
2010-07-11_BrownsandBows
To those of you who are avid trout anglers and thought that this was an all trout post: The names Browns and Bows don’t just refer to two of the three species of fish that are the predominate exotic biomass in southeast Minnesota’s Driftless Areacreeks. Shawn and I had fun catching sturgeon in the shade [...]
2010-06-13_MississippiRiver
Wes and I launched by canoe from McNally Landing on the Upper Mississippi River Refuge confident that we could find active fish in between squalls on weeds edges in the slough. I had two spinning rods rigged and Wes was set up with a casting rod. Rod one was rigged with a 1/2-ounce chartreuse spinner [...]
2010-05-29_MississippiRiver_tripplan
Gar, Pike, Catfishes, Mooneye, Redhorse, Dogfish, Bass, Sturgeon, Buffalo, Trout and Carp, amongst other species, can all be readily caught by hook and line angling methods on the Mississippi River today due to the high pressure weather pattern that has been holding for the majority of the past week. The trick of it is where [...]
2009-06-30_ProjectGetOutdoors
Every Tuesday I volunteer at Winona’s Maplewood Townhomes. It is called Project Get Outdoors and we cater to all youths. Today was my program day and we were set to go fishing in the backwaters. Many of my kids had never fished before. We started with how to cast and bait a hook and [...]
2009-06-29_mississippiriver
Today Chad and I were host to master anglers Andy Geving and Andy Nordquist. Geving holds the current world record for Golden Redhorse of which he caught out of the Root River a few years ago. We set out to our backwaters current for several species, Shortnose and Longnose Gar and Sauger. Nordquist [...]