Granny said I was full of it when I called December 9 in Florida my last day of fishing for 2024. She was right. Yesterday Howie and I took our ladies to Bayfield, WI for lunch at Morty’s Pub then we fished the town dock on Lake Superior for a short time. It was chilly … Read more
40 years ago today I lived on the shores of Lake Superior. I was a sophomore at Northland College in Ashland, WI. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I had a very light load of classes so that I could fish. But I can assure you I would not have thought about getting in a boat on … Read more
Granny and I walked in our house from Australia early Sunday morning. 1:30 AM to be exact. We slept a ridiculous 9 hours straight and woke around 10 AM. A big no-no as far as defeating jetlag and getting back on schedule at home. But we grabbed the bull by the horns since. Sunday turned … Read more
Matt (Howie) Norton and I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day to chase smallmouth bass on Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior. The morning was cool and crisp and as the sun rose so did the thermometer. But it never got too hot. The thermometer touched the low 70°s and there was a refreshing … Read more
We’d have to be out of our minds to trust the weather after the last two days. Mike Neuman, Matt “Howie” Norton and I have been saturated in rain, frozen by cold and had our brains blown out by the wind fishing Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior here in Wisconsin. Today the forecast dangled a … Read more
Yesterday we fished in a deluge of rain and cold temps making for one of my coldest fishing days in recent memories. So when I climbed out of the back of my Exploder at 6 AM this morning and saw a nearly completely blue sky, I was feeling pretty happy. I wandered up to Howie’s … Read more
You may have noticed over the winter that my website has gone through some changes. That’s because my site is so big, it literally outgrew the original format. I was warned back in November that functions were beginning to fail. This is my livelihood, so in a panic, my webmaster, Mark Kuhn and I went … Read more
There were a few times today where I caught myself thinking “Is it really August? What happened to July? But I ask myself this every year. The fact is, once July 4th passes summer seems to go faster. Maybe it’s the shortening of the days. Or perhaps we slowdown which in turn speeds up time. … Read more
We woke up to an ominous sky over Bowman Island Lodge here in Ontario. The clouds were dark and stacked like storms were brewing. But not so. After breakfast Joe Wolthuis and I made a run and when we stopped the skies were blue again. The weather changes fast here, including from good to bad … Read more
I’m chomping at the bit to get my fishing season started here in Wisconsin. Like much of the US, winter is holding on here. Most of our lakes still have ice and there remains snow on the ground in a lot of areas. Some of our rivers are open for trout but they are very … Read more
I haven’t needed to elaborate on any “Monsoon Currier” moments in quite a while. The weather has been good for me at home and afar. But last month when I fished with Howie and Mike Neuman on Lake Superior we were drenched by three days of rain. We organized a do over this weekend expecting … Read more
It’s always bad when the weatherman calls for a west wind in October but instead you get blown from the north. Well, that’s what happened starting late yesterday afternoon and it followed through into the evening. I slept in the Ruby Van last night at Howie’s in Iron River and woke up to 3” of … Read more