Fishing Report

Today my dad and I spent the late afternoon poking around the north woods on our way to the river.  You do this when there isn't a cloud in the sky and you're not convinced there'll be a trout in the river, at least a trout for you.  The trees have color but not...

Today's float began slow and stayed slow...except for the hour between 12:30 and 1:30 pm.  We moved four good trout, landed two, including a picturesque brown that swirled up on Jordan's streamer and was landed without the net that I forgot.  It was fall in the form...

It's not for every fly fisher, but it's hard to deny the pleasures of fall.  The fishing can be hit or miss but the scenery is beautiful and the hits can be pretty big. Sunday's forecast included a ridiculous flash-flood warning which, you know, isn't going to happen...

It's hard not to start a fishing report with anything but the weather.  This little heat wave will go wrong, as they do, and crash.  Next week, we'll be stripping fall streamers and dead-drifting afternoon BWOs.  In the meantime, ants, morning streamers (and tricos,...