2012
The 2012 Minnesota Trout angling season begins tomorrow. It will mark the 9th season in a row that I have fished for trout on Jan 1. Although tomorrow’s conditions will be expectedly challenging i suspect that I will be able to successfully locate and angle willing trout. A winter weather advisory has been issued for [...]
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 [...]
January’s Winter Hatches
Few people consider 21 degrees an ideal time to hunt for bugs deep within a valley in southeast Minnesota. See what you are missing here.
2011-01-23_PossuhmCreek
Winter trout angling successes come in numerous forms. Today I found those successes during a three mile hike with my good friend Justin Carroll, winonaflyfactory.com. I have spent countless days on the water with Justin and have watched his fly angling addiction grow into a wholesome goodness that is unique to him. The drive took [...]
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 [...]
Winter Creek Rainbows; how to video.
This is the first episode for the 2010 season of On The Water. Filmed entirely in southeast Minnesota. January brings ice and snow to Minnesota however the few of us that are smart enough to know where to go to fish trout in the dead of winter typically have a successful time. This video shows [...]
Future Video Introduction Rough
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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 [...]
2009-04-04_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 [...]
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.
2009-03-07_PossumCreek
Contrary to reports from the MNTU board that “the creeks were in tough shape(suggested to pay $20 to go to the Great Waters Expo),” I found a creek that was running clear and hatching midge that were loosing to feeding trout. I have worked the fly fishing conference tour for many years and do not [...]
Black Wooly Bugger
The Black Wooly Bugger. This is a standard streamer pattern for all fly fishing situations.
Adams Dry Fly
This is America’s best known fly pattern. This video requires Quicktime. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
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 [...]
2009-01-23_FilmoreCounty
Its the dead of winter. Many anglers are choosing to stay home and watch television instead of being on the water. I for one am out on the creek busy with hatching Midge and feisty Rainbows. Click on the video below to see what is going on deep in the valleys of southeast Minnesota. Having [...]