I made moves with both family and employment to make the last three days of the work week memorable. I contacted a landowner in another state and secured permission to camp on property located deep in a valley that is difficult to reach this time of year. Plan, plan and …
Rather than concentrate on generating blog posts, I focused on what really mattered over the past two weeks. Catching trout and enjoying the last weeks, days and hours of my 2018 Minnesota trout season. It’s been a bit of a battle between the rain that seemed like it might never …
My fall goals are changing due to conditions and timing. I have to be water and go with the flow as it were. Last Thursday Carl and I checked off one of my fall goals. Chase after the brookies before the fall season ends. I’ll be brief and let the …
Fall is here and with it the colors, cool temperatures and trout rising to BWO’s. It has been a while since I had a couple hours to find trout and with the catch and release season almost half over I made a few moves to spend more time near the …
I woke to Ryan packing up camp. We had plans to be packed and hiking back to the boat before 10 am and I was behind schedule. Did I feel pressure to move quicker? No, not really but we had discussed the night before that the heat of the day …
It’s 2:30 pm on day two. Ryan and I have been hiking through the Northwoods for a mile and a half and it’s taken over four and a half hours. This is slow slogging. Sore and likely dehydrated despite our efforts to continually drink fluids, we are sitting on the …
A quick recap of the initial plan. Drive 7hrs to the Northwoods, get the proper permits needed and stay at a campsite outside of the BWCA to wake early the next morning. At 5 am paddle 8miles to a remote lake, paddle across that lake and ditch the boat. Hike …
When I found out I was going to be a father I made a few changes in life. One was to commit to my wife and daughter more time and effort at home. Another was to commit to a yearly trip to the boundary waters canoe area. I had been …
A chance encounter with a three individuals from Lanesboro spurred a conversation about southeast Minnesota, the driftless area and a love of trout and trout streams. This brief conversation resulted in a question in which I was expecting little if anything to come from it. “Do any of you guys …
The day that I fished with Carl and filmed the Goldilocks video I watched him confidently fish a cranefly pattern in the pouring rain and bring multiple trout to the surface when none were rising. He didn’t fish that pattern the entire day and it wasn’t completely effective the entire …
