Today's Outing

[Driftless]

Fished with Bruce Ristow for 2.5 hours today. We got a late start. On water about 9:45AM

the sun was up and the skies were robbins egg blue. It got down to 21 degrees here last night.

Bruce had be talking about a stream in Southwestern Vernon county that had some privately made lunker bunker structures. They were 25 years old.

Bruce had been raving about this water for a while so we hit it today. I generally don't like lunker structures. They feel too artificial and there is no real reading of water involved.

The trout were hard to come by. Bruce had 2 to hand. About a 14er and 16er. I landed three. About a 17er/14er/10er.

In the middle of our journey there was a massive beaver dam. This appeared to stop any type of up/down stream movement on the water.

The photo above is where there was no lunker structure.

My experience today with lunker structure just solidifies my dislike for it.

[OnAFly]

Beautiful picture, it looks like there will be some difficult casting in there during summer Did you fish above the beaver [PoorWordUsage]? I thought recall reading something of yours about large fish near beaver dams.

[Driftless]

did get one behind the beaver home.

[OnAFly]

Anyone else think that it's a little crazy that the word for a beaver's home, even when spelled correctly, is censored? Apparantly a blockage of water is poor word usage.

[toughguy]

Anyone else think that it's a little crazy that the word for a beaver's home, even when spelled correctly, is censored? Apparantly a blockage of water is poor word usage.

Some guys can't even type their first name Also the the name of a popular outdoors store (Richard's) Sporting Goods

Man that's a nice picture. Now I'm starting to get pumped for opener in a few weeks.

[so haaad]

Just call it a beaver darn.

[french_lake_kid]

LMAO!!!!thats awesome, I read the reply with the (Poor word usage) or what ever it says then read the post after that that said "beaver home" thats too funny!!!!

[knoppers]

there are two spellings of the word, one is slang, and the other is home to beavers . so the slang spelling should be censored, but the other should not be.

nice photo, now I want to go trout fishing.

[fishface]

Hey Knoppers,

I'll give you a heads up next time I'm heading south.