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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Clear Creek
My friend Chad at Clear Creek asked me for a few photos from New Zealand to consider for their annual catalog. I bet he is just super bored at work today and needs some new pictures to look at. Either way here they are.
2008-02-29_MainBranch
Today was aquick scout to get back on the water in Minnesota’s Winter. I was anxious to get on the water as I had just returned from my first summer in Januaury in New Zealand.
2008-02-11, Peel Forest. Day Twenty-six.
Today is my third day in Peel Forest. It has rained since my first night here, almost steady. The rivers are running the white color of glacial silt. The reports of salmon in the rivers are regular and I remain skeptical of my New Zealand fishing successes.I started the day at 10am. My plan for [...]
2008-02-10, Peel Forest. Day Twenty-five.
I woke up groggy. I slept horribly. I was being harassed by at least one sniffy possum until the rains moved in. At that point I was occasionally awakened by gushing down pours, which I was able to identify by the leaks in the seams in my tent that has been worn by the seasons. [...]
2008-02-09, Peel Forest. Day Twenty-four.
I arrived in Peel Forest this afternoon. I paid $18 for two nights camping and bought some gas for my stove at $3.20.I set my tent and headed for the Rangitata River just down the road and across the path from camp. The Rangitata River. The Rangi is a medium sized river with braids and [...]
2008-02-07, Abel Tasman to Hammer Springs. Day Twenty-two.
I woke at 11am and started my tramp back to Marahau at 11.30am. I made the coastal walk that was rated for four hours in 2 and a half hours. it truly was my missing to be the clock on this one and I was able to do just that, even finding the time to [...]
2008-02-06, Abel Tasman National Park. Day Twenty-one.
I slept until 10am. The campground is barren save for our Pacific Challengers and two late rising kayakers. My shade tree kept me cool well past sunrise. I awoke to the buzzing of a giant Kiwi bumblebee that was trapped between my rain fly and tent. I swatted the bee with my pillow a few [...]
2008-02-05, Abel Tasman National Park. Day Twenty.
I feel that Mother Nature has directed me back to me. I spent the last few nights in room seven of the Nelson Youth Hostel Association hostel with five of Pacific Challenge group four’s students. Today I walked 11 kilometers in three and a half hours from Marahau to the Anchorage campsite, of which, this [...]
2008-02-03, Cable Bay. Day Eighteen.
I drove the half-hour or so west of Nelson in search of Wuakapuaka Stream. From what the stream was described, as it would be similar to fishing in southeast Minnesota. A small stream with smallish trout.I scouted the stream by car driving down a winding road to the coast aptly named Cable Bay as many [...]
2008-02-02, Nelson / Marlbourough Reigon. Day Seventeen.
I made my way from Kaikoura back to Nelson today as I was to meet and asist Pacific Challenge group four on their way into Able Tasman in a few days time. On my way back i decided to have a go at some South Island Trout on Wuakamarina Stream. I drove a logging road [...]
2008-02-01, Kaikoura. Day Sixteen.
I drove several hours to the other coast of New Zealand to have a bit of fishing near Kaikoura as I had heard the the fishing was good there right now. I drove through a wine country named Marlborough onto the east coast. As I drove past seals resting on the rocks memories from home [...]
2005-02-11_BeaverCreekWhitewater
temperature 35 degrees Fahreneheit Water 40 degrees Fahrenheit, clear Clear skies. Black Midge Hatch. I entered the creek at the end of the service road off of Highway 30 to the west of Beaver, MN. I walked to the creek, as a crow flies, south from the car park. I chose to walk the creek [...]