Beiträge von LHarris

  • Reflections


    These Virginia Blue Bells reflect on the water and give me a double dose of beauty.



    A cold Iowa fishing trip that the birch trees illuminated.



    The shadows were long on this early Spring day in Richland County.

  • Reading Water

    the current digs it out the corner with the tree and tree roots make good cover.


    The water bounces to the other side cuts the next S on the other side. The curvature on the bank tells you that.


    The little island along the fast...when water is really up high the water blows over top of it. and deposits silt and rock just on the other side....


    that fast water is obviously shallow because if it was deep there would be no broken fast water.


    Any lips on this waterway have great potential because of no cover. The trout need cover. Even a double in depth of the main channel is a hiding place. Those worn corner say that there is plenty of water to cut good hiding places on edge with even minimal weeds on edge.



    Trout hang on the edges of broken water to be hidden and be right near the food.

  • Reading Water


    Scenario:


    First time on this waterway.


    Tell me where the prime lays are?


    Map the bottom for me and tell me why you think it lays like that.


    You say you can't see the bottom so you don't know?


    There are ways of getting around that.

  • Wisconsin Small Stream Brooder Bows?

    Zitat von Johannes T.

    Hmm. If they realy taste that bad I wouldnt prefer to keep stocking them.
    Maybe it would worth it only for sportfishing (catch an release).
    But i dont think, that I ever come to Wisconsin soooo... ;)


    These have natural reproduction and are good eating:




    My area of Wisconsin has the best small stream trout fishing in the midwest.

  • Wisconsin Small Stream Brooder Bows?


    Negatives:
    They don't naturally reproduce in Wisconsin streams
    They are like homing pigeons and leave the area in the same season
    They taste like an old boot.
    They are not very smart.


    Positives:
    They fight like crazy
    Inept anglers can even catch them


    What do you think?
    Should the WDNR keep stocking them?
    Can the money from the stocking of bows be used elsewhere?

  • Small Stream Trout From 2013

    July 2013 my mail carrier, Jim Gainor, gave me a tip on a big trout he had a follow on in Richland Center.


    I stored it in my memory for another day. That another day was Friday morning, Sept. 30 at first light.


    I was accompanied by a friend, Joe Chadwick. He was tossing worms while I was spinning the area. He let me have the top of the hole. This is where the mailman had rolled a big trout.


    Chadwick picked the deeper run just in front of the bridge.


    It was a short outing.


    Chadwick was yelling for me to come help within two minutes of getting to the Pine River right in town. I waded out quite a ways and waited for him to tire out the fish. This fish was big and hunkered down to the bottom. I was making fun of Chadwick for being so excited.


    I can remember picking on him and saying it was only some stupid carp anyway and he shouldn't get so worked up. It finally surfaced and then I got excited. I waded out further almost to the top of my waders because this trout was absolutely huge.


    The battle went on for what seemed forever. The trout was strong and any time it saw the net it made another powerful run. A couple walking by on the bridge stopped and I could hear them yelling and cheering. This only made us nervous.


    Finally the trout tired out and I netted it. It almost didn't fit in the net. Luckily I had my huge LDH net.


    The couple on the bridge applauded us and came down to admire the female brown.



    She measured 31 5/8 inches. This makes four small-stream trout over 30 inches that Chadwick has caught. I got an assist again. He is having it mounted on the same driftwood as his last 30-inch small-stream brown.


    The picture has been out locally and it is amazing the myriad responses. The majority of responses are positive. Most people just say 'wow.'


    There are a few jealous types that try to dismiss it as a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-released brooder or someone's pet that escaped from their pond. Those are to be expected when an angler catches the biggest Wisconsin small stream brown I have heard of or seen caught in my lifetime.