He rolled up in a big silver suburban. Bob Skoronski retired (Green Bay Packer)was driving. I fish pretty often with Bob Skoronski. This was the fifth time I had beentrout fishing with Coach Bob Knight (retired). Coach Knight flashed me a big smileand we decided to gear up right there in the parking lot of the gas station where we usuallymeet at. As the Coach geare...
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Trout fishing can be frustrating when the trout are not cooperating. Some of the time it is not the trout being willy. A trout has the brain the size of a pea. Trout are instinctive and react to situations that are out of the normal for their environments. More often than not it is angler error that caused the lose of a trout or not...
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Alaska Discount Vacations  is offering a great deal on the following.3 King Salmon Fishing Trips on the Kenai and Kasilof RiversThe top 2 ranked King Salmon Rivers in North America1 Halibut Fishing Trip out of Homer Alaskafor 4 people.Trip is for a Hard Core Fishing Camp on the Kenai River and includes week in cabin.Cost is $3495.00 That is $895 pe...
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The below trout is not a lake run brown. It was caught in a stream that is typically 3 feet wide and loaded with brookies. The main stay of this Leviathan's diet was brookies.   Read the whole story here........
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The tiger trout is a sterile hybrid cross between a female brown trout and a male brook trout. The fish exhibits unusual markings found in neither parent. Tiger trout are rare in the wild, appearing only in areas where brook and brown trout share spawning grounds.This interspecies cross is unusual, in part because each fish belongs to a separate genus (Salvelinus for brook tro...
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Fished with Bruce Ristow for 2.5 hours today. We got a late start. On water about 9:45AM the sun was up and the skies were robbins egg blue. It got down to 21 degrees here last night. Bruce had be talking about a stream in Southwestern Vernon county that had some privately made lunker bunker structures. They were 25 years old. Bruce had been raving about this water for ...
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The clock rang, six AM, it seemed as if I had just closed my eyes for minute and now the sun was rising fast, burning the crisp morning fog off the fields. I was tired and disgruntled at my lack of rest. However, I did not hesitate to get up, for today is Monday, and that means a day of stream fishing out on my favorite waters. Scrambling to get into the car, I make sure that I have all the e...
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Curmudgeon definition: cur.mud.ge.on Function: noun Etymology: origin unknown 1 : a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old male trout - cur.mud.geon.li.ness /-lE-n&s/ noun - curmudgeonly  adjective A typical life expectancy of a small stream trout varies. If a trout finds a good stream or "home" and it has the necessary cover and forage, a trout could live to an...
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If only. If only I could have kept fish on that I hooked. If only I had made a few different decisions. If only the rotation I was in was a wee bit different. If only I had more experience fly fishing the sorts of conditions that we all faced. Shortly after the event had completed, I had a con...
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Quilters have their bees and bakers have their cookie exchanges. At these events, the artists in their respective hobbies get together to exchange patterns and recipes, adding a little more to each other’s experience, each taking away something new to try. The equivalent for fly anglers, the phenomenon that is fly-swapping, accomplishes the same. The fly swap is beco...
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It wasnt about catching BIG Brown Trout. It wasnt about the opportunity to catch a lot of Brown Trout. It wasnt about even having a claim to catching truly wild Brown Trout. If anything, it was about.. a spiritual journey that can't be quite explained. It was about going home - if you can call home as some place you havent visited in 23 years....
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