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I was told that there is absolutely no drift in the driftless...Could that be? ;)

As you will recall, from high school history, man once traveled in nomadic groups and were called hunters and gatherers or Drifters. Tens of thousands of years ago, during the glacial period, a small group of these Drifters crossed from the Asian Continent to the North American Continent, via the Bearing Strait; which at that time was a small finger of land connecting the two continents. These people drifted throughout North America and happened upon a small glacier-less area which would eventually include what is called Southwest Wisconsin and Southeast Minnesota today. As luck would have it this area was full of spring creeks boiling up through huge limestone deposits and teeming with native trout. Realizing the significance of this discovery, to their daily sustenance, they became trout fishermen and are today considered the earliest known to partake in this activity. Many took root, deciding to stay, hence the term Driftless Area. It is with great reservation that I reveal this little known fact, lest those of you from back east will descend upon our sacred waters, take stand in our pools, and force us to fish shoulder to shoulder, causing us to become Drifters once again.

I'm still feeling pretty bad about "stealing" the UP from you guys back when we had a little scrum with those Ohioans down Toledo way