We made our first trip to the Brule this week. I’ve been around long enough to realize you usually don’t walk into a new situation cold and do really well. We spent a lot of time driving and walking and just looking at the river until we found some decent looking holes to try. There hasn’t been any significant rain in the area for almost two weeks so the river is very low and clear. This all makes for tough fishing conditions. The fish wait for a surge of rainwater coming into the lake before the run into the river, and the ones that are in the river are spooky because of the low water. Reports weren’t great. The guy at the bait store in Superior said he’d been on the river seven times in a row without seeing any action. We talked to quite a few other anglers and they weren’t reporting much success either. We started off fishing pocket water and any deeper pools we could find. The pocket water produced some smaller resident fish, both Rainbows and Browns. Tuesday morning we did find one Steelhead in a cooperative mood that took a big Hex nymph. Whoever coined the phrase “Trout live in pretty places” must have been fishing the Brule. The scenery was so beautiful it was distracting at times! A fun trip and i can’t wait to get back up there. Hopefully after some rain.
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