2011-03-27_Mississippi River Flyway Spring Migrations Video
I am a bit wet behind my ears from this experience. Migrating swans are common place living in the Mississippi River Valley. I can hear their massive flocks migrating over my house throughout the night. The din of their call is very pronounced. I have experienced an odd Sandhill Crane in the marsh here and [...]
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 [...]
2010-07-10_RootRiver
We launched from Wildcat Landing because it is a nice landing with easy ins-and-outs, beyond that its free. We are beginning to think that this landing is called Wildcat because after the ride from the landing to the mouth of the Root River you typically feel like you would have been better off fighting a [...]
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 [...]
2010-05-21_NewBeginnings
I have now been working in Wabasha for about six months. I started making the commute in November when the water had just began to start to turn over for the winter season. I drive 30 miles of Highway that runs along the Mississippi River twice a day. If you are a regular reader of [...]
2010-05-19_TheSlough
Today I went to a different piece of water for my lunch break. This was a place that was previously undiscovered to me. It is what the locals call the slough as it is connected to the Mississippi River by means of culverts under the dike roads. It has lots of veg in its murky [...]
2009-10-03_StCroixRiver
After the past weekends fishing adventures I thought I would bring it to the attention that after at least 28 seasons on the water I have added three new species to my list this season. This last one being one of the most triumphant. Being a mystical fish the Lake Sturgeon has been a target [...]
Angling for our Native Lake Sturgeon
Lake Sturgeon are classified as rare species by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Lake Sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, are of special concern to the MDNR however not to the federal level. Nationally these fish are caught in the northern states. Traditionally this species was a food base for Native Americans living in the river woodlands. [...]
2009-08-30_TroutRunCreek
Today Justin and I set out to catch some fish. he had never fished Trout Run before so I took him to a spot where, more times than not, I traditionally caught large native Creek Chubs. This section of stream went under the knife a few years back. In the process of “habitat restoration” it [...]
2009-08-23_BackcountryCreek
Today the hunt to handle George is in its eighth month. I have nothing to report save for I did not see this extraordinarily large in stream Brown Trout today. The grass in the pool that she lives is thick and I hope that she was in there instead of facing a trophy hunters fate. [...]