"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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recommendation for south of the Wisconsin River which means the
hotel room is where, Fennimore, Boscobel, Prairie du Chien ?


For Fennimore, staying in Madison is OK.

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.


And tripper thinks I drive too slow

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.

IFIRC, it really was not that far to Fennimore from Black Earth, as far as
the two lane roads that time of year goes, 3 years in Southwest Kansas will
make you over come it. (Tho i do remember one hell of an ice storm in
Madison opening day 1998)


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.


Dunno Ken, not gonna guarantee anything, and it's been 4 years since I last
fished the area, but I suggested those streams because of their holes and
the one spring I know of coming into it. Unless the weather completely and
utterly sucks, I can see at least one fish being caught.

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,

fine with me, especially if they have a weekend rate. plus they usually
allow dogs. we could use madison as a base and if the weather looks ****ty,
hit black earth, mt vernon or trout creeks, of if not too bad of weather,
could go farther west or north.