Wisconsin Driftless 2020

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Went fishing today and hooked into a large trout. Initially I thought it was a brooder rainbow. I cursed to myself and thought : "Who let this DNR hatchery reject into one of my streams in Crawford County."

That thought evaporated when I got it closer and realized it was the biggest brook trout I have ever caught in my life and it had shoulders.

[Steve Molcsan]

A beautiful fish .....

[FishnDave]

That's great, Len!

[spinner1]

Took friend Chris out recently. We were on the water at 7:45 this morning. It rained 2 days straight and I did a wander about yesterday in search of clean water.
We hit a Richland County stream first. Chris had his way with the browns today.

[spinner1]

Small water...3 hours before Packer game.

18 to hand.

[spinner1]

Went out at 9:30am today and fished on a stretch I had always looked at but never fished.
The farmer was very friendly and told me exactly where to start. He put in a request for 2 browns for the grill.

The very first place I tried I was rocked by a monster on the surface and got a good look at it. It was huge. A return trip is in order.

The next corner I had another big on but only for about 2 second. I felt its power and then it was off.

I went to where the cows crossed and decide that just upstream from where they cross looked like a good hide.

First cast I caught this long female with a giant tail. Add about five inches to this one and you have the one that rocked me on the surface.

I fished up to the bridge and walked to the farmer's house and gave him a couple I harvested for him. It was a short stretch and I only landed 9 there.


The farmer was happy with the fish I gave him he told me about a stretch he owned downstream.

It was bigger water in a well groomed pasture. I got really excited and visualized monsters. I fished there from 11:45am to 1pm and landed only three trout.

I caught this brookie on the large water. It had gill lice. I need to fish this stretch early morning on a cloudy day....there has to be bigguns here....It screams bigguns.

[spinner1]

Little Gimp

Went for a week without fishing. It nearly drove me crazy due to this being one of the best times of the year to fish. I did not stop me from asking permission. I have a place I had stopped the minimum of a dozen times over the last four years. Being tenacious finally paid off. I got permission last Monday and was dying to try this easy stretch. I am not 100 percent but I needed to fish.

I walked as far back as I could. I was disappointed that I couldn't negotiate the bluff to walk back farther.


I fished back to the car.

50 minutes on the water. 21 browns to hand.

[Catspaw]

Len
I just love reading your exploits with the char and trout...delightful...keep 'em coming.,

someday....

Mark