Saturday, April 18, 2009

Angler Access law signed in Montana

By way of FF in Yellowstone flog

.. Governor Brian Schweitzer signed HB 190 into law. It's a short and simple law. Every fly fisher in Montana should read it and abide by it.

read the rest here

Friday, April 17, 2009

Farm manure spill at headwaters of Kewaunee River

from the Associated Press
10:57 PM CDT, April 16, 2009

LUXEMBURG, Wis. - Authorities say about 100,000 gallons of liquid manure leaked into wetlands at the headwaters of the Kewaunee River, a Lake Michigan tributary, near Luxemburg in Kewaunee County.

The river was stocked last week with a quarter million trout and salmon. Future stocking has been postponed until the full extent of the contamination is known.

Read the whole story.

Monday, April 13, 2009

BW's parachute BWO

My friend BW tied this and sent it to me.




I took its picture.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

a bit of housecleaning


banner update ... only a month late.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

4 days in April | Trout reports

A four day fishing trip for the early season. The family went south to Florida. Someone had to stay home and take care of the dog. Figured we would go fishing. The weather looked like it might not be so good.

Saturday - April 04

On Saturday the weatherman was right


2 counties - 2 streams.

One with a very large spring.






The second one had a barb wire fence hanging in the air and a largish black tarp ghost protecting a big trout in a little hole.





Sunday - April 05

On Sunday the weatherman was right



Only 1 stream today, with a big beaver pond with many brook trout in it.














Monday - Apr 06

On Monday, the weatherman was wrong.


Cold, but a high blue bird sky.

A trout ninja


my first fish of the day - it'd been caught at least once before






Can't see it in this pic, but many bwo's on the water


The lunch and lunch time beers in the car park.




many trout on BWO's




Tuesday - Apr 07

The weatherman was wrong again.




Sunny all day - high in the low 50s.

My friend Bruce took me to a stream I had never fished before, these are the boiling springs headwaters.


there were many browns, more were hooked and lost than landed.





This is the first brown trout on fly in 30 years for Bruce. Nice fish.





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The route. Spent Sat and Mon night at Bruce and Sue's cabin. Sunday night in the music room at John and Debs. Thanks for the hospitality.