Tag: trout

Recreational Tying with Peacock

There was a time when I tied flies a lot.  Almost every night in my smoky one room apartment you would find me drinking cheap beer and adding to my inexhaustible supply of flies.  There were, and still are, certain flies that I...

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The Stream Less Traveled

A fine day in May, what to do?  I love trouting this time of year, the streams and the woods are alive with all kinds of life.  The contrast between the streams when I start out in March and what they look like now is amazing. ...

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Trout fishing is a family tradition

I can’t say for sure what the first year was that I fished the Wisconsin Trout Opener, very early 70s though.  Grandpa took me every year, and for the most part I haven’t missed an opening weekend since.  Grandpa has...

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Spring Steelhead

The North Shore did not disappoint.  I have gone fishless on the Shore many times over the years, but I have gotten a little smarter, and have learned to wait until the conditions are good.  And this has to line up with time I...

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