CFS is cubic feet per second and on Saturday, July 30th Frank Terkhorn and I headed north to Sugar Creek where the CFS was running at a measly 98; truth is it was the lowest flow and water level we had ever fished ‘the creek’ and I was eager to see how it would all […]

I left Wakeley Lake (last week’s column) and spent the next day floating down 9 miles of the most beautiful, scenic and most wild rivers I have ever seen…The Au Sable. The water was as cold as any I have felt and the wildlife was abundant…that is to say the wildlife above the water line. […]

Rarely does something in print meet or even come close to expectations … but on Friday, July 15th, I had the privilege of fishing a small lake, Wakeley Lake, in north-central Michigan and it more than met any preconceived notions I had going in. As I opened up my March/April of 2016 edition of Eastern […]

Sometimes you have an inkling…you know that something might be the case but you just won’t let your mind take you into a full blown reality; then, when faced with the facts of the matter it somehow just seems wrong. I’m not sure if you have been there along with me mentally…but this past July […]

The last stop on an eleven states in eleven day tour of the west for my son Harrison and I was northeast Iowa, Decorah to be exact…we would pause for a couple of days to fish an area known as “The Driftless” which encompasses parts of four states; northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, southwest Wisconsin and […]