Cheeseland Opening Day

Drove in from Michigan Friday night into beautiful suburband Dodgeville WI
and checked into motel. Drive in wasn't too bad, I had to stop some for
hitting Chicago at rush hours and otherwise slow down to 70 during some of
the heavier drizzle.

Saturday began cloudy with temps in the mid 30's , I drove over to the
Fennimore area and up hwy 61 to county T. There were a few scattered cars
but no one in the secret spot. The secret spot has never failed me. The
water looked low and it was gin clear, i dispensed with the waders intending
only to fish from the bank and not planning on crossing the stream. Make a
mental note, if your going to walk on the bank of a Wisconsin spring creek
during snow melt and wear low cut hiking shoes, make damn sure the laces
are very tight. After extracting my shoe from the mud and getting the muddy
sock back into the shoe, i began fishing. By now the sun had come out and
when the wind did not blow it felt quite toasty.

After shaking off the rust i began to get hits on my GRHE, i took four
medium sized browns from the pool at the secret spot and a few more up and
down stream. I ended up stepping into the water a few time and I guess I
should have put on waders. The wet and muddy foot was starting to bug me so
I waddled back up to the auto, changed socks and drove around. I ended up at
the Iowa/WI border for lunch and a visit into the local Cabelas outfit. Man
that store is small. If anyone is interested they had some reddington and
ross stuff on closeout.

I came back the backroads stopping to investigate some smaller spots on the
delorme not bothering to cross reference the WI trout regs for correct
names. Got into a few brookies on a robert's yellow drake.

Lastly I stopped at the scene of last year's big rainbow loss. The
thermometer in the car said it was 46 and it felt warmer. The creek was high
and cloudy from snowmetl. The DNR guy stopped to check my license and told
me the stream had been clear until the sun came out and the morning guys had
better luck. They must have because nothing showed to my fly and I gave up
after an hour or so. Driving back to dodgeville for a shower and Culver's
butter burger.

Weather tomorrow is calling for the same as today, I'm going to check the
streams of Iowa county out before heading back to Fichigan. Got to make a
note to wear the waders even if I don't plan on wading.

Wayne Knight wrote:

After shaking off the rust i began to get hits on my GRHE, i took four
medium sized browns from the pool at the secret spot and a few more up and
down stream.

Outstanding!

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

I thought Wolfie was going with ya?
Sorry you went alone and I wasn't
there to lose one of your big ones.:-)

Joel *DFD* wrote:
I thought Wolfie was going with ya?
Sorry you went alone and I wasn't
there to lose one of your big ones.:-)

Naw, Wolfie had things to do with his squeeze and something about
birthday concerts.

As much as it would have been nice to meet up, I got to do lots of
exploring, I hit up six streams on Sunday after getting a late start
and got back to Michigan late. Most the streams were turbid from snow
melting and the catching was sparse (and what there was was with
heavily weighted nymphs and streamers) except for one stream, which
shares a name with trout streams in GA and MO, was a big surprise.
Typical meadow stream, so I thought when it disappeared into a small
forest and the water started getting progressively clearer. By then the
air temps had almost hit 60, i saw one fish working the surface and the
tail end of a bend pool that was almost completely tree lined and
proceeded to catch it on a little bwo (size 20). By the time I landed
it, a full fledge hatch was underway and dimples were all over the
place. The hatch petered out after only a half hour or so but i hooked
several, landed some and ldr'd a few. A very pleasant surprise.

No big fish this time either but there's nothing wrong spending a
weekend catch 10-14" brown trout and some brookies after being seasoned
out for five months. Plus I got to drive around to visit some places I
had not seen and got a few creeks marked on the map to come back to
sometime.

Wayne Knight wrote:
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No big fish this time either but there's nothing wrong spending a
weekend catch 10-14" brown trout and some brookies after being
seasoned out for five months.

Nothing wrong with that at all. Wish I could've tagged along. I'm in
need of some sort of road trip.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Tim J. wrote:

I'm in need of some sort of road trip.

Michigan season opener is the weekend of April 30th, head west young
man.

Wayne
road trips are us, sort of

"Tim J." wrote in message
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Wayne Knight wrote:
snip
No big fish this time either but there's nothing wrong spending a
weekend catch 10-14" brown trout and some brookies after being
seasoned out for five months.

Nothing wrong with that at all. Wish I could've tagged along. I'm in
need of some sort of road trip.
--


Well, I got my plane tickets in hand, and that two week window is still open
at the end of the month. If the CT stream is still hard, we can plan on
heading farther south or west for a day. I don't believe I'll be able to
make it to the ONS this time around, as my return flight is now out of
Boston instead of DC, so that means we could even plan a fishing day late in
my window as I head back northwards. Don't give up hope for a bit of a road
trip yet, Tim.

--riverman

riverman wrote:
"Tim J." wrote in message
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Wayne Knight wrote:
snip
No big fish this time either but there's nothing wrong spending a
weekend catch 10-14" brown trout and some brookies after being
seasoned out for five months.

Nothing wrong with that at all. Wish I could've tagged along. I'm in
need of some sort of road trip.

Well, I got my plane tickets in hand, and that two week window is
still open at the end of the month. If the CT stream is still hard,
we can plan on heading farther south or west for a day. I don't
believe I'll be able to make it to the ONS this time around, as my
return flight is now out of Boston instead of DC, so that means we
could even plan a fishing day late in my window as I head back
northwards. Don't give up hope for a bit of a road trip yet, Tim.

Snowing and blowing (literally and figuratively) right now, but hope
springs eternal. In any case, you're obliged for a burgers'n'beer stop.
Stan needs to get out of the house! ;-)
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

"Wayne Knight" wrote in message
ups.com...

Joel *DFD* wrote:
I thought Wolfie was going with ya?
Sorry you went alone and I wasn't
there to lose one of your big ones.:-)

Naw, Wolfie had things to do with his squeeze and something about
birthday concerts...

You know how it's sometimes harder to explain why you don't want to do
something that really don't want to do than to simply go and do it?

Well, it's even harder when it's something that you know you would almost
certainly enjoy.

The best I can do is say I'm sorry I missed you this time around.

I'm glad to hear that you got into some fish.

Wolfgang
next time.

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Well, it's even harder when it's something that you know you would almost
certainly enjoy.

The best I can do is say I'm sorry I missed you this time around.


Don't sweat it, these things happen. Hope you enjoyed the concert and such.