Fishing Destinations
A Perfect Evening
Dictionary.com defines perfect as excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement; somehow complete beyond improvement is very fitting for an early September night that my buddy Frank Terkhorn and I recently had. We had made our way north and east to Morgantown to fish a lake that Frank had gotten permission on…and as they […]
Upper Sugar Creek II – Video
The video you are going to watch here was shot on August 30th from Sugar Creek above Crawfordsville, between Darlington and Thorntown. The bird in the video was an Osprey that swooped down and snagged a nice fish then flew over me … unfortunately you can’t zoom with a GoPro. This is a great place […]
Hillenbrand FWA
The skies were angry…overhead it had become very dark; I trained my ear to the west listening for a rumble of thunder as I made yet another long cast with my Winston 3-weight fly rod. On the other end of my fly-line was a shad popper-as it settled down upon the blackish water I watched […]
Hillenbrand FWA – Video
The video you are about to watch was filmed in mid-August in the Hillenbrand FWA (Fish and Wildlife Area) near Linton, Indiana. I am fishing from my Creek Company Float tube and the skies have turned very dark … which brings some nice bass upwards looking for a meal from my popper. Hope you enjoy […]
Upper Sugar Creek
The smallmouth bass is quite frankly…one of the top fighting fish anywhere; certainly here in our local waters of southern Indiana these striped beauties will fight you like a hungry bulldog. Maybe if we had trout in our local waters I would spend time chasing a toothy brown but smallies are just an epic fish; […]
Upper Sugar Creek – Video
The video you about to watch was taken in central Indiana on Sugar Creek … this is the section above (North and East) of Crawfordsville. The stream is a bit smaller and there is a bit more access (more access points). The water was low and clear making for some pretty tough fishing …. hope […]