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 [...]
Mar 27, 2011 | Categories: Reports, Rivers, The Mississippi River, Video | Tags: 2011, Heath Sershen, March, Mississippi River, sandhill crane, tundra swan, Video | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jul 10, 2010 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Houston County, Rivers, The Root River | Tags: 2010, Fishing Links, Houston County, July, Minnesota, Mississippi River, mooneye, Root River, Sershen, SershenBros, shovelnose sturgeon | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
May 29, 2010 | Categories: Rambles, The Mississippi River, Winona County | Tags: 2010, Fishing Links, Heath Sershen, May, Memorial Day Weekend, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Winona | 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 31, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Rivers, The Mississippi River, Winona County | Tags: 2009, Fishing Links, Heath Sershen, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Summer, Winona | 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 »
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Jul 11, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Houston County, Rivers, The Mississippi River | Tags: 2009, Dry fly fishing, Fishing report, Gar, Heath Sershen, Hex, Hexagenia Limbata, July, Mayflies, Minnesota, Mississippi River, shortnose gar, Video | Leave A Comment »
Jul 11, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Houston County, Rivers, The Mississippi River | Tags: Fishing report, Heath Sershen, July, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge, Winona County | Leave A Comment »
Jul 09, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Prairie Island Spillway, Rivers, The Mississippi River, Winona County | Tags: Fishing Links, Heath Sershen, Mayflies, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Winona | Leave A Comment »
Jul 07, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Rivers, The Mississippi River, Winona County | Tags: Fishing report, Heath Sershen, July, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge, Winona County | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jun 30, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Rambles, Rivers, The Mississippi River, Winona County | Tags: 2009, Heath Sershen, June, McNally Landing, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Prairie Island Park, Project Get Outdoors, Summer, Winona, Winona County | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jun 29, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Rivers, The Mississippi River, Winona County | Tags: 2009, Fishing report, Gar FIshing, Heath Sershen, June, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Snyder Slough, Summer, Winona County | Leave A Comment »
That Dang Stick…. I was able to get my chores done early in the week which afforded me the time to get my canoe in the water. I wanted to handle a Gar while in my canoe. Kinky, I know. I tied a few rope flies onto 1/2-ounce jig heads, loaded the boat, and [...]
Jun 26, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Rivers, The Mississippi River, Winona County | Tags: Fishing report, Gar, Heath Sershen, Mississippi River, that dang stick | Leave A Comment »
Today I began my hunt for Hexagenia Limbata mayflies on the Mississippi River. I have reports that the hatch has begun in the northern reaches of the river nearer to Brainerd. Mayfly hatches typically begin upstream and hatch in succession down the river like falling dominos. I have a control site at Prairie [...]
Jun 23, 2009 | Categories: Fishing Reports, Rivers, The Mississippi River, Winona County | Tags: 2009, Fishing report, Heath Sershen, Hexagenia Limbata, June, Mayflies, Mississippi River, Summer | Leave A Comment »
