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Anyone ever catch all "four" trout species in the same day?

Went out this morning with my buddy Al Macey.

We each landed about 30 browns each with the biggest being caught by me above.

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A 100 photo slide show of my home waters that I trout fish.

Fished with Abe from Waunakee.

He landed about 20 browns in the AM. The above fish is the biggest he landed. His other decent sized was a 17ish incher.

10 minutes after getting on the water Abe lost the biggest small stream brown he has ever had on. It was on for about 4 second. I was higher up than Abe and got a good look at the approximately 27 inch male brown. The trout was so powerful and only hooked on the top part of the nose and it pulled out on one of the power runs it made.

The monster male brown had Abe's pole bent in half. I was hurrying down the bank with my net in hand looking for a place to get in the water and net the monster. The line just went limp. Abe was disappointed to say the least. Abe said it was the "Most" powerful small stream trout he has ever hooked in his life.

On the way back to Richland Center I told Abe that he saved 300 dollars by not landing that fish because he would have certainly mounted it. Abe rolled his eyes each time I gave him the hand gesture on how long his lost trout was. Abe is a seasoned trout angler and has been at it for 5-6 decades he said. He told me:

"I just couldn't control it at all. It went where it wanted to and all I could do is hang on and hope for the best."

When I dropped off Abe we shook hands firmly and made a tentative date to go back after it in 2 weeks.

You always remember the ones you lose longer than the ones you land.

Yes....

I know that I have it reversed.

The typical statement is: "It is called Fishing not catching."

Today was the exception to the rule.

My friend Scott and I hit the water at 6am...We got off at 11am.

Scott came all the way from Milwaukee area so I let him have all the holes first.

Scott's morning started well with this brown.

Scott only caught one more brown today.

Scott landed *6* doubles today.

He was throwing a black bugger with green crystal flash with a pheasant tail dropper.

The bugger was worn out by the end of the morning and only had green crystal flash on it.

This was the typical brookies Scott was landing.

I followed Scott and landed 50 brookies.

Scott ended the morning with 105 trout to hand.

The hidden valleys and trout streams of Southwestern Wisconsin are calling your name. The Stream Of Time by Len Harris will make you feel like you are there as you feel the adrenaline rush of hooking a huge brown trout on your line. Smell the sweet meadowland wildflowers and feel the supple green grass under your feet as you wander through the tranquility, visiting places and times that will surely put laughter in your heart, and, perhaps a tear in your eye.

It was about 3-4 inches long. It looked like a giant grasshopper.

I didn’t know what it was…
But after a little research…

Sword-Bearing Conehead Katydid

After a couple photos and showing the wife and daughter it….

We left it alone.

first day going to try for slam

second day i am going to abuse the brookies

third day I am going to go hog huntin.

I am going to take cam on a three day tour of my favorites streams in the wisconsin driftless area. Will be getting cam soon. The blog i write for is affiliated with lots of northern wisconsin newspapers and they purchased the cam.

Will be trying for a Brookie/Brown/Bow slam. I know exactly where I am going on one of the days.

I will share any footage of interest.

She always stood on chairs because she felt short.

She always wanted to be an adult.

She is our only child.

Her name is Anna and she grew 6.5 inches in the last year.

I hope she is done growing.

Anna Catherine Harris is 5’10″ and as skinny as a stick.

Happy Birthday my beautiful daughter!!!

She turns 15 Friday July 22nd.

The body alone is a size 6. Found on my screen door just 5 minutes ago.

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"all who wander are not lost"

http://www.wdrt.org/# "Live Feed" on the internet

11am to 11:30 am. today

I will be talking trout fishing in the area and about my book coming out August 01, 2011

i would be a guess because we didn't measure it.

Fred had never caught a brook trout so I treated him to about 30 brookies in one of my tiniest brook trout streams.
We sized down our gear and we were fishing a stream no more than 3 feet across in most areas. We came upon a
downed tree across the water and there was a deep cut out under it. First cast and this is what Fred caught.

We fished for a little longer and stopped due to warm weather/water.
Fred scored about 30 with the vast majority brook trout plus this XL brown.
I batted clean up and landed 18.

Al Macey of Sun Prairie was trout fishing today with his long time friend Len Harris in the Southwestern Wisconsin and Al caught this "huge" male brown on a black wooly bugger size 10 on an 8 foot long 4 weight fly rod and 4x leader. Trout was released.

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