Fishing Report

Fish enough, and you'll see some weird things.  Today, one of Matt's boat-mates hooked a three-foot floating weed with his streamer.  While the streamer/weed combo was being retrieved -- presumably with frustration -- a huge trout gave chase to the mess, swirling and...

Too soon?  Probably.  But the next two weeks look...good!  Every winter you know there'll be those first "warm" weeks, and the trout will be out feeding; before it REALLY warms up, and runoff hides them beneath a curtain of dirty water.  After about a month of being...

Every winter I hit a stretch where I just start thinking about fishing all the time because it's been too cold to go.  And...it has been too cold to go for most of the last month.  Since I've decided not to ice fish this winter, I've spent the cold daytime hours...

It sure felt like spring these last few days.  Fool's Spring!  Call it something of a respite.  I was able to get out fishing a little bit.  Just enough.  The trout were winter trout.  They were feeding pretty well on nymphs in the pools around noon.  Later in the...