Black Earth Creek, Wisconsin Mini TR

First foray in a while to the land-o-cheese for trout.

According to my guidebook, this creek is one of TUs top 100 in the country.
Yeah, I was excited.

Pulled into the access just outside Cross Plains about 6 this morning. Hit
the water -- saw a few rises, but nothing specacular. Tied on a 14
Hendrickson, and started casting. Nothing. Hmmmm..... Moved to the next
pool. Nothing..... Next set of riffles. Nothing. Threw 15 or 20 different
flies. Waded about 3 miles of creek. Nothing.

There was a major fish kill in 2001 from some farm issues (cow poop, me
thinks), so the population is down. At least that's what I'm telling myself,
anyway. Surely couldn't be inexperience or poor casting. Can't be that.....

Maybe I should put some Cheddar cheese on a hook and see what happens.


Anyway -- there's a little pond (Selmo, or something like that) near the
access that apparently gets stocked like crazy every year. I just wanted to
get the skunk off of me, so I tossed around the Hendrickson for a bit. Got
two small bows (10 inchers or so) and a 5 or 6 inch bass. Nothing to call
the newspapers about, but at least I don't need any tomato juice.

Some pics he

http://community.webshots.com/album/359763531WUwnPG

Dan