Granny and I talked about big time fishing plans the last few days for her days off this week, but the truth is, we still have work to do on our new fixer-upper Hayward, Wisconsin house.  We finally finished dressing up our foundation last week.  It’s pretty fancy and looks cool.

We also ripped up all the carpets and floors inside and we’ve been living on plywood all summer.  Supposedly we have vinyl floors arriving in September.  That means we need to finish painting and a few other things.  Tuesday, that’s what we did.

Wednesday we worked all morning on the house again but at noon I said, let’s grab some camp food and head out in the van and do some reconnaissance for future fishing.  We headed for the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and other than a few casts at a bridge on the West Fork of the Chippewa River, we looked at boat ramps at several lakes.  It’s a wild and beautiful part of Wisconsin and only 30 minutes from the house.

We camped on Black Lake.  Its hard to find the primitive BLM camping we were used to out west so we settled in a campground.  But it was quiet and only half full.  The lake was gorgeous and tempting but we kicked back and enjoyed the views.  We left the boat at home anyway.

Today we awoke to rain.  We intended to wade fish on the East Fork of the Chippewa but instead we drove around and looked at few different sections of it.  The rainforest like landscape is a sight to behold.  I fished here often while in college back in the 80’s and look forward to returning.  Today just wasn’t the day for it.  We returned to Hayward early in the afternoon and got back to the house.

Jeff Currier Global Fly Fishing