This morning I went to The Driftless Angler, a fly shop in Viroqua, Wisconsin. The owner is always helpful and friendly. After I bought some flies I didn’t need he told me a rock bank just downstream of my campsite is “full of smallmouth “. Might give that a shot. I fished a familiar stream, the Timber Coulee and Coon Creek just before it entered the Timber Coulee. Had 10 fish on but only landed 4 of the 10. I only use barbless hooks these days. Now you can buy barbless hooks instead of debarbing them yourself. They like the Pink Squirrels I tied last week. All the fish I saw were brown trout. They were mostly small fish. Three or four were maybe 12”. Tomorrow I’m going to give the branches of Copper Creek a try. It’s pretty skinny water but very pretty and classified a Category 1 Wisconsin stream.
82 degrees today and I got a little bit of a burn. Never gave it a thought. Looks like rain the next couple of days. There is a little bit of a drought here. Streams are low, slow, and crystal clear. Fish are spooky so the man at the fly shop said.
Hope you catch some bigger ones tomorrow.