The smallmouth bass fishing has been so good this month I can not stop. Despite getting home late last night from yesterdays fishing I got right back on the saddle this morning. At 5 AM, college pal Paul Cavanaugh of Colorado, pulled in the driveway under the first glimmer of daylight to help load up … Read more
You may not know it but there is a serious fly fishing culture here in Hayward, Wisconsin. We have numerous fly anglers along with a fly shop, The Hayward Fly Fishing Co and guide service. The owner of the operation, Stu Neville, has become a good friend since the minute Granny and I arrived in … Read more
I met Dave Gellatly at the Great Waters Fly Fishing Show in Minneapolis back in March. I saw a guy towing a drift boat with Wisconsin plates pull into the parking lot. I went right over and it turns out Dave is from my old stomping grounds of Ashland right on Chequamegon Bay in Lake … Read more
Bob and I rarely fish on weekends because no doubt, here in Wisconsin the waterways are for sure at their busiest. But suddenly the days of summer are passing rapidly. Too rapidly. We decided to take a long haul down numerous dusty roads to a river where the mosquitos and horseflies carry you away. There … Read more
Bob and I planned on doing something big today but unfortunately truck trouble for Bob grounded us. Well, not exactly grounded because Bob lives on a small lake. Instead of not fishing, I zipped over his place around 8 AM and we launched his lake boat with my Exploder. This was by no … Read more
Wow. I actually went four straight days without fishing. It was no wonder I was driving Granny crazy around the house yesterday to get her stuff together so we could get going. Finally, around 6:30 PM we began the winding drive to one of my favorite fisheries in Wisconsin so we could get an early … Read more
As we took our first two sips of coffee Granny and I and gazed around the neighborhood. It was only 6:15 AM. The temperature was already 73° and not an ounce of wind. It was too hard to resist a trip to our nearby lake. The same lake we fished on the 4th of July. … Read more
My lady and I hit the road at a reasonable time this morning. It was just after 6. It was about an hour drive then we dropped our blue boat down a muddy slot on absolutely gorgeous Wisconsin river. Today’s target, muskellunge. My shoulder doesn’t need any extra big stick chucking so … Read more
Some days there just isn’t much to write about. Today with Josh and Tanner was that day. It didn’t matter that we left the house at 6 AM and weren’t home until 6:30 PM. It didn’t matter that we floated eight river miles and had two flies in the water the entire way. The issue, … Read more
Boy, it’s been hard to get my man Howie (Matt Norton) on the water this summer. Howie has more company visit than anyone I know. And when he doesn’t, he’s often busy getting the Norton estate ready for the next round of guests. I’ve been razing Howie, but not too badly because he has … Read more
Sometimes you simply can’t divulge much. Or don’t want to because you found something really special. While we didn’t catch much, only two tiny smallies to be exact, Granny and I had a wonderful adventure in the drift boat the included a lake, a river, another lake then further up the river. It was fun … Read more
We always get up early on the 4th of July. It’s my favorite holiday of the year. Today was no different and before we knew it Granny and I were down to our last sip of coffee. We looked at each other like, what now? There are no events until late afternoon. That’s all it … Read more