Updates from July 31, 2004
This is the smooth tailout of a large, wide flat into a very steep riffle. Fish rise here almost every evening, but it's a difficult place to fool them, with clear water and tricky currents.
This beautiful habitat held some big risers that were too wary for me on one late July morning.
All along this fertile river, cedar sweepers like these shelter small brookies, browns, and rainbows.
A remote, lake-like stretch of a trout river provides refuge for large, reclusive browns.
Polydrusus (Green Weevils) Beetle Adult
View 3 PicturesThis is an iridescent green terrestrial (Terrestrial: Insects which live on land and are fed on by trout only when they incidentally fall into the water are known as "terrestrials" to fly anglers, and they're very important in late summer.) beetle. They're common in northern Wisconsin's forests during the middle of summer, and I found them on the water's surface more than any other terrestrial (Terrestrial: Insects which live on land and are fed on by trout only when they incidentally fall into the water are known as "terrestrials" to fly anglers, and they're very important in late summer.) insect. I saw the trout take a few and caught some trout on an imitation.
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