Vermillion River Tuesday May 4

[Scudly]

Fished from 5:30 - 7:30 this morning. All of my action was from 5:30 - 6:15. I caught two 20" browns a 16" brown, and a couple of other average sized browns. All caught on crawlers. All lip hooked and released in good shape. Finally caught some nice fish on the V this year!

[Scudly]

Nice sunrise to go along with it.

[Scudly]

Decent sucker

Hauled out some garbage.

[pkv]

What awesome fish! Gosh, I wish I was that good. I just started trout fishing a little bit last year, and getting more into it this year. So far, I've been using panther spinners and a few crank baits here and there. I have a fly rod, but have not been out to practice it much. School will be out soon, so I hope to get more practice and just hang out on the streams.

Great fishing Scudly!

[Redlantern]

Thanks for hauling out the trash. I've never been to the Vermillion but I imagine it gets it's share of rubbish left behind. People like you make a difference.

I was geocaching with my daughter this weekend and she insisted we bring a garbage bag with us so we can cache in, trash out. I was pretty proud of her.

[Scudly]

Pulled more trash out of there last night. Mainly beer cans and plastic bottles.

I went back to Monsterland tonight for ONE HOUR. Landed TWO fish. Not bad for the V. Both browns. Nothing else caught.

Well no monsters were home this evening. I however only fished from 6:30 - 7:30. Discovered the pool I caught the two in was not as deep as I thought. I am starting to wonder if I just happened to be at the right place at the right time.

After a half hour of no bites on worm, spinner, and rap, I went upstream looking for the next bend in the river. I found a nice deep hole by a downed tree and fished this guy out with a worm. Lip hooked. I'd call him 15." Nice strong healthy fish with dark rust coloration, big pectoral fins too.

Back in the drink! I went back to the magical pool. Ended up catching one 5" brown! Tiny little thing, not worthy of a photo. However it is a good sign of natural reproduction! I hope the little guy makes it. Tiny little jaw I hooked him on a #4 hook which was amazing in itself.

Guess how many trout I have kept this season so far? ZERO. Don't need any trout dinners quite yet. I'm gonna whack and stack in some high number streams come Memorial weekend for sure. Then fire up the smoker big time.

[Finlander]

I fished the Vermillion last sunday afternoon at the south end of the Vermillion River Wildlife Management Area for the first time.

When I got there the first thing I noticed in the parking lot was the signs, and one of the signs says "No Horse Back Riding" in big bold letters.

Well I walk up the trail leading to the river and proceed to strip line from my fly rod and start casting my fly in the river when I notice on the other side of the river two people on horeses looking at me casting my rod back and forth. They looked at me like what are you doing there but didn't say anything. I thought about telling them that horse back riding is not allowed here, but I didn't want to raise my blood pressure as it is too high anyways.

I didn't have the TIP number in my cell phone, otherwise I would have called.

I know the north part of the WMA allows horse back riding, so I wonedered if they got there bearings crossed.

There were horse tracks on both sides of the river, so I don't think this was the first time this happened!

Should I have called the DNR anyways?

[youngie22]

Tough call, I probably would have just let it pass like you did. Unless they kept looking at me strangly. Or if they were spooking the pools for me, I like to do that

[dkhntr]

I would have let it pass too. Unless they decided to be rude or anything. Then I would have called. Even though it may not be right, by the posted sign. If they are friendly I would have enjoyed the 5 min of B.S.ing