Northfield Area

[gio]

Hello everyone. I will be attending St Olaf College this year as a freshman. Anyways, I was curious if there was any good trout fishing around the Northfield area? Ive been fly fishing for about 8 years now, and I'd like to have something to do to relax once in a while.

Thanks

[french_lake_kid]

I guess theres 1 or 2 steams somewhere around there, not sure where though.

[mark p]

There are links from the following page at the DNR HSOforum that has maps to trout streams in the southern part of the state. Some aren't too far from Northfield.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fishing/trout_streams/index.html

[luckycrank]

JUST AN OPINION OF COURSE BUT I HAVE FISHED BOTH RICE CREEK IN DUNDAS/NORTHFIELD AND LITTLE CANNON RIVER NEAR SOGNVALLLEY/KENYON RICE IS REAL SMALL IMPOSSIBLE TO FLY FISH PROPERLY AND ALSO THERE IS LIMITED FISHABLE WATER THERE, THE LITTLE CANNON HAS A LITTLE BIT MORE WATER HOW EVER HAS SEEN LOTS OF PRESSURE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS AND ACCESS IS BECOMEING MUCH HARDER, IF YOU REALLY ENJOY FLY FISHING HEAD TOWARDS HAY CREEK OR BETTER YET RUSH RIVER IN WISCONSON IS ROUGHLY WITHIN A HOUR AND I WOULD CONSIDER IT TO BE SOME OF THE BEST WATER IN THE AREA ALL THOUGH IT WOULD REQUIRE AN OUT OF STATE LICENSE THIS IS BY FAIR MY CHOICE IN AREA STREAMS

[Flaco651]

Vermillion River from Farmington to US 52.

[cubicleboy]

hey! i'm a st. olaf grad and used to go fish trout in dundas. Several farms there have trout streams running through. You can always knock on a few doors and get permission to fish them. Also, some good lakes in faribault for shorefishing.

[EidesRX]

I am a graduate of Olaf, if you have a car then you can manage 100 streams in southern MN and Wisconsin. If you have a bike you can make it to one or two. You can bike to Rice creek where it flows into the canon and catch at least 5 0r 6 species of fish, brook trout, sunnies, crappies, walleye, bass etc. The rest of the creek is on private property that you can ask for permission- though the river is about three feet across with small brookies. Look on the DNR HSOforum for rivers in the area and southern MN. I also did some fly fishing for walleyes in the canon and was successful in the spring after the runoff. You can head over to Wisconsin, which is an hour or so two 25 different rivers and creeks. Where are you from originally?

My advice to you if you want to catch trout while at Olaf, make friends with someone that actually has a car on campus and explore Southern Minnesota. My best friends are all St. Olaf Fly fisherman, Fram Fram!

Good luck!