A Minnesota Winter Rainbow. Jan 1 has turned into a tradition. I have spent the last four openers angling with my friend Justin. In 2009 we began with a death hike through the bluff side in eastern Fillmore County. Since then we have had a spot that we frequent that is out of the wind. [...]
Jan 04, 2012 | Categories: Fillmore County, Fishing Reports, Spring Creeks | Tags: 2010, brown trout, Fillmore County, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Minnesota, MIracle Nymph, Pheasant Tail, rainbow trout, sershen bros, trout angling, winter season | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
May 19, 2010 | Categories: Fishing Reports, The Mississippi River | Tags: 2010, bowfin, fishing blog, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, May, Mississippi River, report, the slough | Leave A Comment »
Jul 23, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Rivers, The Mississippi River, Winona County | Tags: 2009, Fish Fly, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Hex, Hexagenia Limbata, July, Mayflies, Mississippi River, Summer, Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge | Leave A Comment »
Jul 22, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Rivers, The Mississippi River, Winona County | Tags: Fishfly, Fishing Links, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Hex, Hexagenia Limbata, Mayflies, Minnesota, report, Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge, Winona | Leave A Comment »
Jul 10, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Garvin Brook, Spring Creeks, Winona County | Tags: 2009, Fishing Links, Fishing report, Fly Fishing, Garvin Brook, Heath Sershen, July, Summer, Trout, Winona County | Leave A Comment »
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. [...]
Apr 28, 2009 | Categories: Blue Flowers, Fishing Reports, Houston County, Spring Creeks, White Flowers, Wild Flowers, Yellow Flowers | Tags: 2009, April, Fishing Links, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Minnesota, SershenBros, Spring, Trout, Wildflowers | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Apr 25, 2009 | Categories: Fillmore County, Fishing Reports, Rivers, The Root River, Video | Tags: 2009, April, Fillmore County, Fishing Links, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Minnesota, Redhorse, Root River, Spring | Leave A Comment »
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.
Apr 24, 2009 | Categories: County, Fillmore County, Fishing Reports, South Fork Root River, The Root River, Video | Tags: 2009, April, Fillmore County, Fishing Links, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Redhorse, Root River, Trout | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Apr 21, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Video | Tags: 2009, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Len Harris, Pronghorn Productions TV, Rattlesnake Creek, Spring, Trout, Wisconsin | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Apr 04, 2009 | Categories: Crooked Creek, Fishing Reports, Houston County, Video | Tags: 2009, April, beagle creek, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Houston County, Spring, Trout | Leave A Comment »
here is a bit of video from Friday. 50 degrees and windy afforded me a creek to myself catching 64 trout in the afternoon.
Apr 01, 2009 | Categories: Crooked Creek, Fishing Reports, Houston County, Video | Tags: 2009, Crooked Creek, Fishing Links, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Houston County, March, Mayflies, Minnesota, Trout, Video | Leave A Comment »
The heat was on for air temps, we found 52 degree water, hatching mayflies, and willing trout. Where were you?!
Mar 23, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Houston County, Spring Creeks | Tags: 2009, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Houston County, March, Mayflies, Minnesota, Spring, Trout | Leave A Comment »
Mar 20, 2009 | Categories: Backcountry Creek, Fillmore County, Fishing Reports, Spring Creeks | Tags: 2009, backcountry creek, Fishing report, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, March, Trout Fishing | Leave A Comment »
Mar 14, 2009 | Categories: Fillmore County, Spring Creeks | Tags: 2009, backcountry creek, Fillmore County, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, March, Minnesota, Spring Creek, Winter | 2 Comments »
Mar 05, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Houston County, Possum Creek, Spring Creeks | Tags: 2009, Fishing Links, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Houston County, March, Possum Creek, Winter | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Feb 28, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Houston County, Possum Creek, Spring Creeks | Tags: 2009, Daley Creek, February, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Scouting, Trout, Winter | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Feb 22, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Houston County, Possum Creek, Spring Creeks | Tags: 2009, February, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Houtson County, Minnesota, Scouting, Trout, Winter | Leave A Comment »
Feb 20, 2009 | Categories: Fillmore County, Fishing Reports, Video | Tags: 2009, February, Feeding, Fly Fishing, Heath Sershen, Trout Rising, Video, Winter | 2 Comments »
Jan 17, 2009 | Categories: Duschee Creek, Fillmore County, Fishing Reports, Spring Creeks | Tags: 2009, Duschee Creek, Fillmore County, Fishing Links, Fly Fishing, Hatch, Heath Sershen, jan, Midge, Minnesota, Rainbow, Trout, Winter | Leave A Comment »
Click on image below to begin the movie.
Jul 17, 2008 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Outdoor Reports, The Mississippi River, Video | Tags: 2008, Big River, canoe, canoeing, Dry Fly, Fly Fishing, Hex, Hexagenia Limbata, July, Mississippi River, outdoor, Summer | Leave A Comment »
The White Bass are stacked up on one particular Wing Dam below a dam on the Mississippi. I threw white #2 streamers and picked up several fish on my eight-weight. The fishing was fast and furious and I never had to make a long cast or wait more than five minutes for a fish.
Jun 19, 2008 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Outdoor Reports, The Mississippi River | Tags: Breezy Point, Fishing Links, Fly Fishing, June, Mississippi River, Summer, White Bass, Wing Dam, Wisconsin | Leave A Comment »
