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My friend Bob was a beginner and gave a few tips and he said he learned lots from.
I got an email from him today. In fact he sent me GPS coordinates. It was his way of
thanking me.
What do you think? says 24-26 inch brown in a tiny stream on a rock faced hole.
I think every guy i show a nice time should do this????
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after my buddy fished this and monster of the house took a swing at it I walked up and looked in this
hole on a tiny stream and saw a 25-26 inch monster brown smiling at me.
Scott LaRochelle Flew In From Virginia
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Scott a good buddy from Wisconsin moved out East last year following his fiance "Carol" out east. Scott attempted to get a teaching position out their but they were slim pickings. Scott is currently employed by an Orvis shop where he lives.
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We hit the water at 6:15am. Scott scored a brook/brown/bow trifecta. He landed approximately 25 trout and I landed 15. Scott caught trout of the day around 16 inches. Buggers were his choice today in size 8 and 10.
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I discovered a red winged black bird nest with a couple eggs in it. The mother bird gave it up at the last second as I walked by. I thought it was already past time to have baby birds. Maybe they decided to have a second batch
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We ended the day locally. It was pretty obvious the stocking trout had dropped off brooder rainbows. We had no hook ups but we saw a pod of 50 trout and there were 20 bows in there over 20 inches and a couple were pushing 25 inches.
I got up nice and early today. There was not a cloud in the sky so I decided to get out and try for some browns before the sun and our impending hot weather in the next week could hit.
I geared up and off I went to the Pine River looking for a full morning of catching nice browns.
I have a silly superstition that I learned from my father.
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If you catch/lose a twenty inch brown you are to stop. The outing is over. I have held
true to this superstition since I was 5 years old.
Today was not the day to quit being superstitious.
The second cast of the day was my last cast of the day.
Planning on another outing tomorrow morning..
What are the supposed consequences of not stopping ??
dad always said I would get bad karma from being greedy.
Depriving yourself of a fishing day is, well, bad enough karma, ain't it?
my dad taught me it back in the stone ages...
my dad kept lots of fish...only one big one an outing...
nowadays that i let got 98 percent of my fish I guess I
should change but it is a father/son tradition.
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17 trout to hand..biggest around 14 inches.
Very nice.
Where are all of those pictures of stream locations? Don't give up your stream, I guess, but being from Florida, I've got nothing like those. It's a beautiful creek!
Len, I love your pictures of those little streams next to little bluffs. No wonder you love the Driftless.
Ed
Hit this stream at first light.
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Caught about a dozen. Nothing huge.
Quit after 2 hours.
Len, what leads to such small streams having such large pools? Is it started by beaver dams?
Ed
spring floods and snow run off.
Sauger
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Identification:
Dorsal region of head and back brown to gray; sides paler, ventral region of head and belly white. Sides and back variously speckled with dusky spots; 4 dark saddles across back, some of which expand horizontally on sides. Eyes silvery in life; a well-developed reflecting layer (tapetum lucidum) causes glowing in dark. Membranes on the spiny dorsal fin with definite horizontal rows of spots, and last few membranes not solid black; second dorsal and caudal fins with dark spots in regular rows; ventral lobe of caudal fin sometimes white edged. Pectoral fins lightly speckled, and with a strong, black blotch at base; pelvic and anal fins clear to lightly speckled.
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Wisconsin State Record:
5 lbs 13 ounces caught on Lake Wisconsin In Columbia County on November 8, 1988.
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This 16 incher was caught and released today by me at the dam in Gays Mills.
Nice sauger, Len, especially on fly gear! That one looks colored up extra dark, too!