WISCONSIN

Good People - Good Water - Good Fish
I'd been fishing in the West on vacations and learning how to fly fish. Tying my own flies and dreaming of fly fishing started in high school, but I only fished in ponds. Even then, I never caught anything. My first catch was on a fiberglass rod. It was a turtle in Florida.
My hockey buddies fish for trout in Wisconsin several times a year. In 2006 they asked me, or I invited myself. We drove in the morning and decided to fish before the sunset at Reads Creek, just off Hwy 14. On this trip, I had my two Labrador Retrievers with me, Maggie and Baguette. I let the guys have the Reads Creek falls while I fished the canyon. My two dogs had never angled before, and it showed. I think I yelled at them the whole time in the canyon, echoing my calls.
I made one excellent cast only, luckily, there was a brook trout there, and I landed my first Wisconsin Trout.
Wisconsin Done!
![]() Me in 2006 | ![]() Buddy Ron | ![]() Reads Creek |
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![]() Buddy Mike | ![]() Buddy Mike | ![]() Mike & Ron |
![]() Wisconsin Farm | ![]() Wisconsin Farm | ![]() Brook Trout |
![]() Brook Trout | ![]() Mike | ![]() Reads Creek |
![]() Brook Trout | ![]() Reads Creek | ![]() Ron |
![]() Hockey Buddies in 2006 | ![]() Reads Creek | ![]() Reads Creek |
![]() Reads Creek | ![]() Reads Creek | ![]() Reads Creek, Waterfall |
![]() Reads Creek | ![]() Reads Creek, Waterfall |