Trout Streams

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Wisconsin

> The Bois Brule River

A two families of Canada geese flee our canoe.

This tail end of a large glassy flat holds many nice rising trout most summer evenings, and it's extremely demanding of both stealth and fine casting.

A small, old rock wing dam has created an excellent riffle and pool in this classic trout stream.

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.

It seems somebody lost a fly on a tree limb as they floated down the river, and this bat flew by and attacked it and got stuck. Either that, or the bat caught their fly as they were fishing and wrapped it around the limb as he was fighting to get away. Either could happen, although the former possibility is a bit more likely.

This colorful brown was my dad's first nice trout on a dry fly. It was also the best of the day, taken with a nice cast after doing some slightly crazy wading through silt and deep water to get into position.

A whitetail deer takes a cool drink on a hot August afternoon.

My dad nearly broke a long troutless slump fighting a 16-inch rainbow in fast water. It spit the hook after a while.