I spent a few days eariler last week scouting a few rivers for an up coming trip and good thing I did. The first river didn't pan out so we spent some time casting and floating spawn in the harbor. With not a whole lot doing I decided it was time to go option C and hit another river. Luckly I decided to go that route. My clients hooked up with quite a few chinooks but were only able to land one female pushing 10lbs. Unfournetly my cell phone died so I couldn't take a goo

I took Tuesday and Wednesday to scout the Root River in Racine WI and the Milwaukee River in Milwaukee WI, in search for early run kings. Tuesday I was only able to stop at two spots on the Root and after a few drifts my bobber started bouncing. I couldn't believe that I had a hit that quick but once I put my Raven Matrix 13'6 to it, I knew something wasn't right. After a few seconds a 2-3lb catfish came up with my hook in it's mouth. I took this as a sign and decided to

I stopped by one of my local rivers yesterday evening to take a look around and to my surprise there were a few chinooks jumping in the lower sections. It's only a matter of time before things erupt! I was at the South Pier in Racine Thursday the 10th and saw 15-20 fish caught, mainly chinooks that were still silver. I did notice something as well, there were no fish jumping. This means one thing, the run is a few weeks out. With the rain we've been getting has slightly r

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