I caught 9 out of this hole…all browns. I have caught more brookies out of one hole but never that many browns in one hole. Biggest today 17ish caught in above hole.
23 to hand.
Nice fishy, pretty water.
Regards,
Scott
Wife came along today and took photos.
Fished for 2 hours 16 to hand
My third slam of the year.
went out this morning. It was hard to find clean water. Found it on my 4th choice.
15 browns to hand and nothing over 14 inches. Odd part of it was this use to be one of my most productive brookie streams. I discovered gill lice in it three years ago. Wonder if that had anything to do with it.
sorry no photos
Fished for 3 hours this morning.
10 to hand.
Ranging from 12 inches to 21 inches.
Very nice, I wish that Browns were as eager and easy to find here, your streams remind me of my old home waters in New Brunswick CANADA, except they hold only Brookies.
Last fall Steve Skoronski talked me in to coming out of retirement as a guide. I donated a trip to his brother Ron’s Foundation. It is called Forward Lymphoma. The trip was raffled off and a nice donation by Fritz Durst won the trip.
Fritz is the owner of Fritz Durst Agency, American Family Insurance near Madison.
Fritz and his son Jeremy came and fished with me today. It is Jeremy’s 22nd birthday today. Fritz let his son have every hole first and Jeremy made the most of it. The day was cut short by bad weather but the 2 managed to catch about 2 dozen trout.
http://forwardlymphoma.org/index.html
This outing is my very last donated trip and last guide trip “EVER”. It is a worthy cause and I hope some other active guide in the area picks up the ball with a donation to this worthy cause.
Fished with buddy Rob Gooze today.
Between the 2 of us we landed 45 trout.
I let Rob have all holes first.
He used a bloody bugger the entire day
Fished lower Mill Creek in Richland County
Fished Private Water on Lower Mill “MUST” ask permission
4pm until 8pm
50 browns
Sizes from 10 to skinny ugly female brown about 18-19 inches
Headed to Decorah tomorrow. Suggestions of streams, favorite flies? First time there for me.
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Friend John Armstrong from Georgia came up to fish with me.
Nothing photo worthy. 6 to 15 inches was best. All very colorful.
John 55 trout to hand. 2 Brookies and the rest browns. John had a 20ish brown on a trailer hook with 6x tippet and it broke off before I could net it. John also had one double today with 2 browns.
Me second fiddle after John fished holes 25 to hand. Mine were all browns.
We fished mill and plum creek.
Scott was using a 7 foot 3 weight rod.
Scott landed 40 trout today…Lost one 20ish. I landed 20 trout and 15 incher about the best.
Scott started with a tandem rig but switched quickly to a cone headed bugger.
Last hole of the day we were tired and lazy and didn’t come up to the hole stealthily and the result was watching a 25 male brown zipping around the hole for 2-3 minutes like its tail was on fire. We will be going back there.
on water at 5:20am.
Off water at 6:20am
Caught 5 small trout.
All of them felt warm when I unhooked them.
This was a smaller stream near the headwaters and at 6:20 the water temp was 70 degrees.
Not worth killing every trout I caught.
Going to wait until outside temps in the 70s for a couple days straight.
It Is Called Catching Not Fishing
Yes…
I know that I have it reversed.
The typical statement is: “It is called Fishing not catching.”
Today was the exception to the rule.
My friend Scott and I hit the water at 6am…We got off at 11am.
Scott came all the way from Milwaukee area so I let him have all the holes first.
Scott’s morning started well with this brown.
Scott only caught one more brown today.
Scott landed 6 doubles today.
He was throwing a black bugger with green crystal flash with a pheasant tail dropper.
The bugger was worn out by the end of the morning and only had green crystal flash on it.
This was the typical brookies Scott was landing.
I followed Scott and landed 50 brookies.
Scott ended the morning with 105 trout to hand.
You can sure make a guy want to visit Wisconsin in the summer.
Wow, that’s a LOT of fish in one morning. AWESOME!
Abe’s Adventure
Fished with Abe from Waunakee.
He landed about 20 browns in the AM. The above fish is the biggest he landed. His other decent sized was a 17ish incher.
10 minutes after getting on the water Abe lost the biggest small stream brown he has ever had on. It was on for about 4 second. I was higher up than Abe and got a good look at the approximately 27 inch male brown. The trout was so powerful and only hooked on the top part of the nose and it pulled out on one of the power runs it made.
The monster male brown had Abe’s pole bent in half. I was hurrying down the bank with my net in hand looking for a place to get in the water and net the monster. The line just went limp. Abe was disappointed to say the least. Abe said it was the “Most” powerful small stream trout he has ever hooked in his life.
On the way back to Richland Center I told Abe that he saved 300 dollars by not landing that fish because he would have certainly mounted it. Abe rolled his eyes each time I gave him the hand gesture on how long his lost trout was. Abe is a seasoned trout angler and has been at it for 5-6 decades he said. He told me:
“I just couldn’t control it at all. It went where it wanted to and all I could do is hang on and hope for the best.”
When I dropped off Abe we shook hands firmly and made a tentative date to go back after it in 2 weeks.
You always remember the ones you lose longer than the ones you land.
21 more days and kaboom1 and I will be there!!
bring some 3x and 2x leaders and some buggers and bunny leeches.