Wisconsin Trip #8: Memorial Day/Brookies for George
For the long Memorial Day weekend, we traveled to a different part of Wisconsin from our usual fishing area. Although we tried to leave home early enough to beat the traffic, we got stuck in Milwaukee. Which meant we had to stop at Cabela’s…
The “Sand” region of Wisconsin is beautiful and filled with native brook trout streams. Not only are brook trout my favorite little fish, they live in beautiful water. I brought my bamboo rod, which was handmade by our TU friend George who passed away earlier this month. Each brookie I caught with the rod, I thought of George and how lucky I was to be out fishing.
I have no fishing photos since Chef and I were on separate parts of the stream. Brook trout are way too excited for pictures without help. Even the little guys splash around like crazy!
But I did manage to take a photo of our cool new tent. It kept us safe and dry even amid thunderstorms and a tornado warning. Chef is cooking a delicious breakfast for us on our last morning:
August 15th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
bait anglers sholud adapt to other methods or be excluded. Any legal method of fishing everyone sholud be able to participate. If a particular fishery is so fragile with such low population numbers then nobody sholud be able to fish it. Your focus seems mainly on eradicating the brook trout. Even if we use something like rotenone which stops life at the mitochondrial level, fish will rebound and the strongest fish (native or invasive) will prevail, no? The way I see it Man was given this earth and we can do with it as we see fit. So today trout may be popular but browns where never here in the Driftless Area of MN – WI – IA – IL so sholud we eradicate the browns? Brooks are fun to catch but generally don’t get all that big, at least in the limestone spring creeks I fish. A 13″ brook trout for me is a biggie. A pair of 14″ is my personal best so far. So do the brookies out compete cutthroat significantly? What river systems are we talking as examples?
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