And the exploration continues.  I crossed a creek the other day and stopped to check it out.  I looked upstream and it appeared big enough to drop in the boat and make some casts.  This morning Granny and I gave it a try and we were not disappointed.

There were plenty of lily pads at this spot and fallen trees along the edges.  The habitat looked good for about any of the Wisconsin warmwater species.  While I tossed a pike streamer on wire from the back of the boat, Granny slowly chugged along a small bass popper.  She rose several bass and hefty bluegill – enough that I changed my pike rig over for bass too.

We didn’t catch a ton however but the ones we got were quality largemouth.  The chunky fish were only found nestled deep in the lilies.  While we were fishing heavy enough tippet to yank the fish out of the lilies, 20lb to be exact, the fish usually finagled getting the barbless poppers free before I could get them to the net.

While our best landed largemouth was 16”, this fatty 14 incher made for the best photograph.  We love bass fishing and always have, but the last 34 years being we lived out west we didn’t get enough bass fishing.  Today we were exactly 15 minutes from our house.  We love this place!

Jeff Currier Global Fly Fishing