La Crosse/Coulee Region Streams?

[trimbelle22]

Has anyone been out on any of the area streams lately? I fish the timber coulee a lot and i'm just curious if the floods made a mess of the stream. i realize this area didnt get hit as bad as some of the places in mn, but they still received a lot of rain. I dont want to drive 30 mins and find out the stream is washed out. If anyone has any info or a report, please post it. I will be sure to update if I end up finding out for myself...

[JollyT]

They got a lot of water south and east of La Crosse. My uncle sold his retirement place east of Genoa and moved to La Crosse a couple of weeks before the storms. He is glad he did! A lot of water moved through all those streams, but the flows should be back to normal. I didn't talk to any trout fisherman to see if the fish survived though, so can't help you there.

[trimbelle22]

i fished the timber coulee on saturday with limited success. there was still a lot of water and the clarity was down from the hard rains the day before. i caught a few small browns on spinners, but i didnt spend that much time fishing. the stream looked like it had gone through some changes since the flooding, but it was hard to tell in some spots because of the clarity.

only a few more days to trout fish this year, so i might try to get out again this week sometime.

[witter1631]

Fly fished the timber coulee friday for couple hours in mid afternoon and saturday afternoon. Cuaght plenty of trout both times most on nymphs and some late afternoon with dry flies like blue winged olives and caddis. nymps used were brown wollybuggers and small beadhead nymphs and couple on tetestrials. Hoping to get out this week with the rain. last week so i have to get out some time.

Matt

[trimbelle22]

had a pretty good trip on the timber coulee this evening. did most of the damage on bead head nymphs, mostly hares ear or pheasant tail. caught one nice brookie and the rest were pretty small browns. great evening to be out, almost a full moon..