Last summer Granny worked hard to get our fixer-upper house here in Hayward, Wisconsin completely finished. This meant missing out on lots of fishing. It’s been great to get her out on the water almost every week this season between her work days. She has been enjoying it so much that today it was her … Read more
I recently said all great fly fishing days in June start early. Well, in July they do too. In fact today was my earliest in years. Lots of years. I can only remember leaving earlier back in my Freemont Lake ice fishing days in the early 90’s. Back then I left at 2:30 AM. Today … Read more
All great fishing days in June start early. Today was no different. Friend Josh Hulbert picked me up at 4:30 AM and we headed to the river to meet up with a new friend, Tanner. Young Tanner is 24 and was raised in the Hayward, Wisconsin area. The sun rose at 5:15 and it was … Read more
My phone slipped out of my pocket during the early morning drive to the river with Bob and his son Gibb. I had no camera for fishing today. We had scenery I wished I captured. It’s starting to look like November here in Northern Wisconsin. The trees are bare and the sun stays low all … Read more
Granny and I put another 24 hours in on the house and at 3 PM today we headed over to my friend Bob Butlers house. Butler is the Bob I’ve been floating with once a week pretty much all summer. Bob and his wife Janna live on a cool little lake not too far out … Read more
It’s been since 2012 since I came to my old stomping grounds of Northern Wisconsin in October to fly fish for muskellunge. It’s crazy I waited so long because I enjoy everything about fly fishing for musky. The toothy fish is hard to fool with the fly and when you do its hang on tight. … Read more