Wayne Knight wrote:

The area I was thinking of was the Fennimore area.

Only thing I would request is that an area that I could drive back to Indy
in about 8 hours on Sun afternoon.

Let me know, will probably bring Ralph, the trout catching golden.

OK. We've got one recommendation for the spring creeks west of
Richland Center, which to me means staying in La Crosse. Jeffie
recommends Timber Coulee, ditto on staying in La Crosse, and one
recommendation for south of the Wisconsin River which means the
hotel room is where, Fennimore, Boscobel, Prairie du Chien ?

MapQuest says La Crosse is 7.5 hours from Indy, 6 from Urbana
and 4.5 from Christian in the north suburbs. Of course, having
chased you up the Tri-State once, I know that you could probably
get there in 20 minutes. ;-) So time & distance are within limits.

I wouldn't mind La Crosse, but I know absolutely nothing of the
area. If it's to be just us three, that sounds like a long way to
drive to find and fish unfamiliar water.

I am somewhat familiar with the area south of the Wisconsin, but
that's still a long way to drive to fly fish in March and I tend
to worry about traveling any distance on little two lane highways
that time of year.

I look at it like this, we are not going to have great, or even
good, fishing no matter where we go, so we may as well stay close
to home and be as comfortable as possible.

There's a Marriot Residence Inn on the west side of Madison that
is mere yards from Madison Outfitters, a decent enough fly shop.
Black Earth Creek is just to the west and Mt. Vernon Creek is
almost as close.

So I cast one lazy, same old, same old vote for Madison, but like
Iowans and Michiganites, I am always willing to caucus. ;-)

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Ken Fortenberry