wisconsin driftless report 2019

25 degrees when began fishing 45 degrees when finished.
snow melt shut them down.

Almost not a trip report

Spent the last couple of days calling/messaging/emailing friends asking to go fishing with me today.

My wife likes me to have a person with me these days to kinda babysit me. One of my friends has a bum knee. Another had a serious health scare and is grounded for a while.

https://lenharris.blogspot.com/2019/01/almost-not-trip-report.html

Went out yesterday.
tried 4 different spinners before I found correct one.

https://lenharris.blogspot.com/2019/04/trip-report-april-fools-day.html

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Which river did you hit Len? I was on the Rush Sunday and the first hour the bite was hot on a #2 Panther Martin with a gold blade but then shut off. Still great to get out.

my 2 favorite streams are mill and pine

Was 51 degrees when I hit the water at noon. There was a haze of clouds and the small stream I targeted was clear with tiny bit of color.

The first hole yielded 7 browns in the first 10 casts. This was the smallest amount I caught in a hole in the entire outing.

https://lenharris.blogspot.com/2019/04/trip-report-numbers.html

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Len:

No wonder so many of your pics look familiar… I like to take a left at Rockbridge!!! Some of our biggest back in the day came from staying on the main branch!!!

Mark

Nice one Len!

Hit the water at 11:30am. Clouded over and outdoor temperature was 51. The action was good for the first 2 hours. The clouds went away and so did the trout.

https://lenharris.blogspot.com/2019/…ce-ristow.html

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lots of guppies today

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morning marginal…afternoon with clouds a different story.

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Bruce sent me an email yesterday and we set up this mornings outing. Hit the water at 10am. partly cloudy with a slight bit of color to the water. It was 58 degrees outside. We finished at 3:30pm. The clouds had turned to haze at about 2pm and the outside temp was 66 degrees. Between the 2 of us we landed over 80 browns.

https://lenharris.blogspot.com/2019/04/trip-report-fishing-with-bruce.html

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browns were feeding on top today…looked like little snakes.

caught a brown that puked this up.

American Brook Lamprey.

http://lenharris.blogspot.com/2019/04/trip-report-jim-furley.html

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I would think that it would not be a good thing to have lamprey in the steams. Oh one more thing, if I catch some browns like that I would sure have a smile on my mug.

I believe those lamprey are native to the area. I’ve also seen them in western Wi streams, St. Croix River & in the Quetico, Ontario. I don’t think they are comparable to the invasive sea lamprey found in the Great Lakes.

gary d wrote:

I would think that it would not be a good thing to have lamprey in the steams. Oh one more thing, if I catch some browns like that I would sure have a smile on my mug.

What just happened?

A monster brown lost.

https://lenharris.blogspot.com/2019/04/what-just-happened.html

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actually got sick of unhooking browns yesterday.

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Well dang Len, I don’t feel too bad for you

another 35 tonight

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was sunny today…hard sledding…
lost really nice one.

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moustachesteve wrote:

Well dang Len, I don’t feel too bad for you

+1
i’ll have to agree as well =D
love your post and your pictures

the old rule big trout don’t bite in middle of day in sunlight has been obliterated.

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this morning

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was a good year

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lost lots weight…
knees much better..

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took out Discover Wisconsin.
Show will air in February.
I took a friend along to help with the catching.
I felt like a guide again. Did not like the feeling.

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ended the season with a nice brown.

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LenH wrote:

the old rule big trout don’t bite in middle of day in sunlight has been obliterated.

the back story about this will appear in Our Wisconsin Magazine in May.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut if it searches long enough.

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Glad to have you back on the site, Len. I was wondering where you’d been. Nice fish!