On Aug 9, 7:08*am, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:
Frank Reid © 2010 wrote:

Left out on Tuesday for the 7-hour drive to the Driftless area of SW
Wisconsin.
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I hit it in the toughest time of the year. *Streams were full due to
heavy rains (all are spring creeks) and the mosquitoes were the worst
in 30 years. *Never the less, I will be back.

The mosquitoes usually begin to taper off in August but this
year has been weird wet in Wisconsin. That's actually a good
thing, the northern part of the state has been in a drought
for the last several years.

Mr. Knight called before he passed through Chambana on his
way from Indy to Wisconsin. I had to take a pass this time
to attend my sister's wedding reception in St. Louis. Sounds
like I missed an "interesting" trip. Seems like a lot of my
trips have been "interesting". ;-)

Nice TR, I'm glad you had the chance to poke around up there
and wet a line. You've added one more destination to the
Nebraska short list !

--
Ken Fortenberry

Well, Mssr Knight never made it. Hmm, let me count how many ROFFians
have started out to come fishing with me and they "say" that they had
a break down and can't make it. They had a break down alright....
Fear! They just want to keep all their limbs attached. Cowards.
Evidently, my timing on the departure was pretty good as the
thunderstorms broke loose Saturday evening and there was 2" of rain in
under an hour where I was going to camp.
I was REALLY impressed with the fisher-friendly laws combined with the
quality of the fish. Additionally, there are NO trails along side
these streams. Okay, WTF, over! Fishing a stream of this quality
WITHOUT a trail beside it showing the signs of the hoards of fishermen
that have fished it? You keep looking and realize that something is
missing.
In conjunction with this, another thing that I noticed was the
quantity of water available. As I mentioned in the post, there are
more than 4000 miles of Class I water. If you combine the two, miles
of water and accessabilty, I think that Wisconsin has to be in the top
5 states for available miles of trout water.
One rod that might be good here in August is a 9' 4wt. Don't need a
5wt for most of the fish, 4wt is fine. However, most of the fishing
that I encountered was nymphing and the extra reach of a 9' would
help. If you will be under the trees, then go with an 8 foot, knowing
that you'll be loosing a LOT of flies. I think the 4wt is about the
limit you would want to use for nymphing. As it was, I had a LOT of
fish spit the hook due to a weak hook set.
Frank Reid