2009-07-02_CrookedCreek
On the hunt for mayflies today I found none at the usual spot at the Brownsville lookout. Since I was in the neighborhood I decided to hit the lower section of Crooked Creek for trout. I was stopped by the landowner, who was on top of his tractor, and asked if I was gonna float [...]
2009-06-14_MoneyCreek
I have a bike that I can ride to the creek instead of driving my car. Today I chose to take it up over the freeway ridge and down into the valley on the south side of it in order to hit a section of creek that is rarely fished. The drive took me 45 [...]
2009-05-22_SouthBranchWhitewaterRiver
I had planned to meet my friends Linda and Lisa at Elba this evening for an evening of Brown Trout angling on the South Branch Whitewater River. We accessed at Lloyd’s Pasture and worked our way upstream from the camper park. There were not a lot of bugs flying around however the Browns were busy [...]
2009-05-18_BackcountryCreek
I had to walk the dogs as they were going crazy in the house. I decided to take them to the forest for a romp while I could hunt mushrooms. We headed down into Filmore County to get on a piece of state forest. There is a trout stream on this patch of [...]
2009-04-03_CrookedCreek
Our 400th image gallery!! Wes, Eric and I got out for some spring mayflies. We took fish on top all over as the hatch was great today. There were fish feeding to hatching mayflies in every run, riffle and pool. We encountered no other anglers out today.
2009-04-02_CrookedCreek
Today I headed south to get my annual Dark Hendrickson fix. The hatch was rather brief today however I managed several fish on top with #16 parachute adams. I switched over to a #2 Ugly Tom and caught several fish in the 14-18-inch range.
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 [...]
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 [...]
2009-01-04_WhitewaterRiverSystem
Another day, another creek, another frozen guide. I called Justin at 10.30am because I noticed that he had been scouring my website for information. I figured that he would be around at that point and ready to go fish in the sun. The high was forecasted to be 28 degrees and it was 9 degrees [...]
2009-01-03_NorthBranchWhitewaterRiver
Today Justin and I headed to the Whitewater System to do some scouting on some water that neither of us had fished previously. Destination, North Branch Whitewater River. We accessed at the last lot below the minimum maintenance road. We covered nearly one stream mile and found few fish. We felt better about hiking and staying comfortable. [...]
2009-01-02_WhitewaterRiverSystem
Its Friday and I have the day off of work. I played my cards and figured that no one else would be out today. i played them right. I was not in the mode to actually catch fish today. I just wanted to watch them. I headed to Beaver Creek where the flows are strong [...]
2009-01-01_SouthForkRootRiver
Ahh yes, the ephemeral Winter Trout opener. If one is keen this day means very little save for the day where tradition requires you to stomp through the snow in search of freezing fly line, icy edges, long hikes, and bath tub clear creeks. I was able to convince Justin, WinonaFlyFactory.wordpress.com, Shell, and Bella that [...]
2008-04-06_Crooked Creek
Shell and I decided that the weather was right to head south to Crooked Creek in search of emerging mayflies. We got out of town a bit late and ended up stream side by 3pm. We found every access on the stream to have a car parked at it so we headed to our old [...]
2008-04-03_Pine Creek
Today I met Brad on Pine Creek. We figured we’d better get our fill of this creek before the trout harvest opener as it gets hit pretty hard. It was windy in this part of the valley. Our plan was to hike upstream through the State Forest in search of new water to catch fish [...]