Coon Creek Trout Fest

[hookncook]

oh- and I suspect Hard Water Maniacs won't be showing up empty handed either..

[hookncook]

WOW! Glad to see Wisconsin Fly is another offical sponsor. They are getting some serious attention with this thing. Wisconsin Department of Tourism cut another grant for this to be held.

[benbosh]

Went to this last year. Defintely a good time.

[Driftless]

Got the 20 rods from Shakespeare today. Time to dig in my old tackle and put 20 spinners and stick baits on them to make them ready for the kids at coon creek!!!

[hookncook]

A few of my favorite shots from CCF. I had just as much fun shooting as I did meeting so many people at my booths. Had great neighbors a couple local media outlets enjoyed my work, and will be contacting me this week to solidify some new opportunities.

[hookncook]

A few more... what's a fest without a kid with ice cream all over her face!

[Driftless]

The Trout Derby was a real hit.

I got a sponsor to donate 20 rod/reel combos. They came to my booth to redeem them.

[Driftless]

a couple more

I was visited by a couple well known folks from the area.

Tom Monsoor a Pro Bass guy that was 5th nationally last year.

Kim McCarthy the state Trout Unlimited President. He thanked me for my endless work with introducing kids to trout fishing and he gave me a special thank you for keeping him up to date on the gill lice problem. The gill lice problem is about to be a big thing on the state TU site.

My sister introduced me to new state senator Jennifer Shilling.

Thank you Eric Rauch the Trout Unlimited President from the Coulee Chapter for making this all happen.

[hookncook]

"I was visited by a couple well known folks from the area."

Before you get too excited, They stopped by everyone's booth. Monsoor, shilling, and Mccarthy all stopped by my booths as well. Mccarthy and shilling both were excited about Reel Recovery's presence at CCF and congratulated Robert, Andrew, and I for bringing RR to the area.

[Driftless]

was asked to present at an author's symposium at Preston, MN

at the national trout center

http://www.nationaltroutlearningcenter.org/

Offered to do a trout don't live in ugly places presentation

also had the vets group and reel recovery ask me to be a part of their drive.

Need to think about that because of external factor that keep me timid to volunteer.

[Driftless]

also ran in to the fish manager from the area.

Jordan Weeks

Jordan is an all around nice guy and he also is worried about the gill lice problem.

[itchmesir]

Fish Manager.. worried about gill lice... no wai

[Driftless]

the Fishing Derby was well attended.

Over 150 kids in the pouring rain.

It was up from last year 25 percent.

[itchmesir]

Good thing you were there... otherwise.. i'd imagine they would've been down 25%!

[Driftless]

ran in to lots of old friends and made a couple new ones.

[Driftless]

Old Friends Larry Damore and Herb Rosen had a booth next to me. I introduced them to the driftless area 9 years ago. They gave it their all and both scored 20 inchers in the 10 degree weather long ago.

They make fly rods now and are also the subject of one the recent Third Year Angler work on the Driftless Area. Larry is the lead singer for the punk rock group Pegboys and Herbie is the owner of the Liars Club in Chicago.

I scored a Flying Pig Cap and we set up to go out fishing in the near future.

[itchmesir]

They're the stars of the recent film Reverb

[Driftless]

the video is truly a great piece of work.

was a lot less green when I took them.

[Driftless]

I ran in to former Blackhawk Trout Unlimited President Danny Boggs.

Dan and I fished together long ago. He and I took his daughter Maddy out a couple

outings later. I hooked Dan up with Northland Adventures Television and Dan and his

daughter shot a nice episode.

Dan moved to up north and does a little guiding in the area when he is not fishing with his daughter.

[Driftless]

Did not run in to Rob this festival but I did take him fishing a dozen years ago and broke in his Oyster Rod in style with over 80 brookies this day.

Rob is the Third Year Angler and is quite good at his trade.

http://youtu.be/H9b0yCYuuc0