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All tagged Wisconsin Fishing
My friend Jim Furley and I fished Thursday morning until 11am. It was sunny out and the trout were quite persnickety this outing.
When an employee of the DNR is impressed with a trout, you take notice.
About 20 years ago my home waters "Wisconsin Driftless" were teaming with brook trout.
I was fishing with my friend Rick this day. It was about 38 degrees this day. Rick had on neoprene waders and was cooking due to them. He complained the entire outing.
It was September of 1998. My daughter Anna was born in July 1996. My wings were severely clipped due to working in Madison and commuting an hour each way to work each day.
All outdoors folks have dreams of the perfect deer hunting place where the twelve point bucks are plentiful and there is a stream that runs through the center of it with many eager trout.
I ran in to Scot Schellhorn at the Apple Festival in Gays Mills. Scot and I usually talk fishing when we meet. This was one of those talks.
My buddy Bob is 74 years old. Bob and I have fished together for about 15 years. On almost every outing he talks about his neighbor. Bob talks about the "Old Timer" that lives right next to him.
I need to give a little background to begin the story. Recently I have been doing lots of presentations at schools to encourage young people to take up fishing. Along the way I was asked to speak at some nursing homes also. I have spoken at five now and have a couple more scheduled. My wife used to work at a nursing home and she thought it was a good thing for the retired folks. She called it bringing the trout stream to them.
