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 [...]
2009-07-03_RootRiver
I shook the stick earlier this week by finally catching a Longnose Gar. I have had the stick before and am aware that once its gone good things can happen. With that I have never caught a Sturgeon. It has been something of my imagination for nearly 20 seasons. Today I set out to conquer [...]
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.
2009-04-16_RootRiver
Today Mikey and I put the canoe in at Lanesboro and paddled down to the take out on HIghway 16. We were seeking redhorse and suckers however ended up with trout and bass. The water is extremely low and it required us to pull the canoe through several riffles.
2009-04-10_RootRiver
Today Eric and I fished the Root looking for Suckers and Redhorse. We found a few White suckers anda lot of Brown Trout.
2008-08-10_NorthBranchRootRiver
The paddle out was more than the distance we paddled to the camp site. We stayed up too late last night and it was too early to paddle. It was a sunny day. We made it to the take out. We took time for lunch at a waterfall that leaked out of a crag. This [...]
2008-08-09_NorthBranchRootRiver
Canoeing in August. Our friend Ass is back from her stint in the Peace Corp in French Guinea, that Africa for those who don’t know. So with two dogs and two boats we headed to the North Branch Root River to paddle to Highway 16. Hatch didn’t ride in the boat the first 10 miles. [...]
2008-08-01_RootRiver
Mikey and I paddled the Lower Root to its mouth to meet up with the Roughfishopen crew in search of the mythical Shovelnose Sturgeon. The paddle took less than two hours and we made our way to a Maple river bottom to spend the night fishing. We caught a few Drum and watched as the [...]
2008-06-01_RootRiver
Today was a great day as we had six canoes and ten riders. We launched at Rushford’s canoe landing. We parked the take out vehicle at Vinegar Ridge. It was a nice fast paddle that took about two and a half hours to float. It featured a few pieces of a silo that was leftover [...]
2008-05-09_Roughfish Roundup
My round-up started with the float. I met the crew at Eagle Cliff Campground. A bunch of us loaded the boats onto a few cars and headed to Lanesboro to put-in. We had originally planned on floating the North Branch Root River however ended up on the South Branch. The water was stained but at [...]
2008.05.04Redhorse on a Sunday afternoon.
I talked a few of my friends into splitting gas and heading to the Root with the lure of catching 20 – inch fish. We made it out of Winona at 2.00pm after increasing our crawler count to six dozen. We stopped at the Peterson canoe landing to find a chalky brown stream. We stopped [...]
The Northern Hog Sucker
The Root River is home to a very biodiverse ecosystem. One that includes the elusive native Northern Hog Sucker. This fish loves the current and is shaped justly. I was fishing with crawlers and 1 ounce of lead in flood stage flows near Eagle Cliff campground and caught about a dozen of these guys today [...]
2008-04-13_SouthBranchRootRiver
Sunday. Two cars, two boats, four people and three life jackets; We gathered on the west side of town waiting on an additional life jacket. Between the four of us, Mikey, Nate, Amy J, and myself, we have the combined adventure of a herd of Mountain Goats. None of us had the balls to run [...]
2008-04-12_Rush Creek
It’s trout opener and the Root River is running at 5500-cfs, the temperature is hovering near the freezing point, and the wind is blowing as Jack Frost released his final breaths of the year from the Canadian Arctic. We started at Gribben Creek where the brown water from the Root was backed up into the [...]