The Asian spot

 Last sunday i took alanna to chase some stillwater brookies. she caught her 1st fish ever all by herself. she ended up catching 3 brook trout and i ended up with 4. it was an insanely slow day with not much going on. but we were totally stoked about her catching them by herself

Chasing browns

 We chased em but the hunting wasnt very good for us. we got into a few but it was pretty disappointing

nting wasnt very good for us. we got into a few but it was pretty disappointing

It's been awhile

 since ive spent any time on this piece of water. used to fish it a few times a year but havent really for a few years now. met up with matt at 0530 and off we went. i had contemplated bailing cause of my back being shot but i chose to go anyway. thankfully my back didnt really give me any fits but am paying for it now. the 1st couple of hours was pretty damn slow but shortly after the sun warmed things up we switched to dries and things really picked up for us. i got into a few really nice fish for the small water.

The Berry

4 of us drove over to the berry but by the end of the day that we were a bit early, as far as the temps are concerned. it is still way to hot for these fish to be consistently aggressive. between the 4 of us, we caught 4 fish and  i was not one of them. i hit 2 on a mouse and that was it for me. it was about as bad as ive seen it fish.

Jeep camping

Thursday evening my 11 year old asked me if we could go jeep camping last weekend since my wife was working overtime and wouldnt be home much. so friday after i got back from fishing and she got home from school, we loaded up and took off. the drive was 3 hrs so we needed to get scootin if we were gonna do any fishing before dark. i had planned on us finding something close to where i wanted to fish. when we got to the turnoff for the lakes i wanted to fish the road past that was closed off cause off forest fires, so the sign said. well i wanted to camp in there and since we couldn't see any signs of fire we drove thru the signs. not to far past the road block is where i was hoping to camp but when we drove down there i didnt realize it was only a day area, no overnight camping. turned around and started driving out to the main road and here came the DNR aka fish cops with the lights on. after some questioning and an ID check he escorted us out. the closest place to camp was the next canyon over.  i didnt want to pay to camp but once we got into that canyon and up to that lake we drove thru the pay camp sites and headed right back out. to packed in there. we took a gamble on a dirt road that was just down the road from the pay to camp sites. the dirt road was only about maybe 150 yards but it had about 6 make shift camp spots along it. we took the farthest from the road and there was nobody else camping off the road so it ended up working out well for us but by the time we got there we only had about 40 minutes till dark so we just got a fire going and set up camp. the next morning after a little fire and some breakfast we closed down camp and drove over to the lakes i had wanted to fish but only fished for about a couple of hours. lakes were supper low and mossy. i did get a few on dries in the little feeder streams and alanna had a couple of chasers with a spinner so it was all good.

Streamers and browns...

....oh how i have missed thee. its just about that season again for me so Friday went out with Nate and got some practice in. we managed a few fish but after the 1st hour it kind of fizzled out. the fishing was hot until it wasnt but it was nice to get back into my normal routine of chucking meat at browns

A sunday drive

Hadnt fished with jake in about 3 years or so. he called me out of the blue to fish. we took a couple hour drive to some water that he had not fished before. the fishing was shit till about noon then it finally started to pick up. didnt turn out to be to bad of a day but still the worst that section has ever fished for me. it is what it is