WisconsinDorkTrip

Goose and I catch some driftless trout. All three Wisconsin species.

Manguy catches a brown on the Kickapoo. He had leaky waders, and probably didn't wanna walk too far with two boots full of water, but I'm glad he got out and caught one.

Here's my first successful trip to a driftless stream. Caught my biggest of the year so far at 16", and got a 14" right at the end.

Caught some browns, and lost my biggest trout of the year so far.

I hit up a short section in this video and got my third 15" brown so far this year.

I catch my first trout on a fly rod, and Paddy gets yelled at for being hungry for fish. If you look closely, John got some good footage of the brown drakes while fishing the first night. The second night wasn't anything like that, but there were some around yet. The bigger fish were caught the first night, mostly off camera.

John decides to be selfish and deny Paddy protein-packed fish flesh. Shame.

Found A Couple Decent Browns

On this episode, John catches a couple trout on a brown drake fly. Paddy has enough of John's mouth and gets lippy.

Rainy weather is trout fishing weather! Caught a 15.5" here, and some other browns.

This video is a mix of spin and fly fishing. It was hard to find a bite on spinning gear, but some of the fish that passed up spinners or stickbaits bit on the fly.

Manguy and I grow some oyster mushrooms.

This trouting started off really slow, but turned into a decent morning on one of my favorite stretches.

Took the canoe out in search of panfish. I found a few.

In this episode, our hero fights to save the lake fly larvae from the bull 'gill menace. Will he succeed, or will his fly line just end up a tangled mess in the brush? Tune in to find out!

On my second trouting of the season, I hit up a "new" section. Didn't catch anything huge, but 'twas good to get out anyway.

For my first trouting of the season, I went to a stream I'd never been to. There were a ton of brookies, but most were pretty small. I was able to get some underwater footage of a small school. I ran into several of these. I'm sure the local herons are eating well.

We were targeting crappies in a lake infested with catfish, carp, and buffalo. The fishing wasn't very good, but we had a good time anyway. At least the dogfish weren't biting, too!

Shot a jake on the last day of the season. For his own benefit, I decapitated him with a second shot.

My last outing for redhorse yielded the most fish.

Every year I make it a point to sucker fish in the spot I grew up sucker fishing with my grandpa in. This year we were a bit early, but we managed one fish.

More redhorse. More walleye.

Hung out along the river with dat boi.

Prior to this day, I had never caught a sturgeon. I didn't expect it. I was targeting redhorse. I've never fought a fish that could just sit there and I couldn't turn. It was a fun and tiring fight, but I prevailed!

They're late this year, but I finally got on some redhorse.