Fishing Destinations
A Summer of Fly Fishing
4,152 miles, 7 states, lots of outdoor adventures…oh, and lots of fly fishing. By the time you read this column, school will just about be open, again! That is hard to believe as school seems to start earlier each year; right now my focus is on as much fishing as possible. June 22 found me […]
Iowa’s Driftless Area
Our second week of vacation found us putting Nebraska in our rear view mirror and dead-heading for Northeastern Iowa’s driftless area. When I say that Nebraska was in our rear view mirror…I might add that one very large and ugly super-cell was also bearing down on us from Sioux City to Waterloo; I was driving […]
Decorah, Iowa and The Driftless – Video
The following video was shot in northeastern Iowa, in the driftless area. There is tons of water to be fished and the first 3 days I didn’t see another person fishing. I had arrived on the heels of some big rains so the water was muddy and stained …. it made for some tough fishing […]
The Land of Milk and Honey
It was at about this date in my column that you should have got more information on The American Prairie Reserve; I wrote about it a few weeks back. Things don’t always go as planned…sometimes you just have to go with the flow. As I said in last week’s Journal, we had experienced car issues […]
Mount Rushmore and My Lake Trout
There are two kinds of people in the world…those who have been to and seen Mount Rushmore, and those who haven’t; up until just recently, Vickie was the latter. We had finally arrived in Rapid City, South Dakota and taking the 30 minute drive up Highway 16 was high on our to-do list. First, I […]
Small Creek Smallies
The video that follows was shot on a hot mid-June day in southern Indiana. It is a small creek, the water was low and clear….making for some pretty skittish smallmouth bass. I think you will notice that I am using a longer rod than usual and tried to make long casts to get the fly […]