Saturday i had the pleasure of running the last ice trip of the year in McKinley Marina.  The goal was to get my client on a bunch of steelhead but the brown trout had other ideas.  I ran every close to every rod in the top 6' of water with a mix of shiners and spawn s...

This past week started off red hot (view red hot steelhead article).  But it didn't take long for all the rivers to flood out again.  As of yesterday 12-26, both the Root and Milwaukee were blown out and the Oak Creek was extremely low.  I spent the afternoon walking t...

After a hectic two weeks, I was finally able to spend some time on the Milwaukee River Saturday.  The first spot I hit produced a spunky steelhead and a big buck coho (both on spawn sacs).  Sunday after spending the morning in the woods and not seeing anything I headed...