Kyle Zempel shares a southern adventure on Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Kyle Zempel, owner and chief guide of Black Earth Angling and a strong supporter of SWTU, will speak at our December 12 meeting. He will have just returned from a red drum (red fish) expedition to southern Louisiana. He’ll have great stories and photos (and maybe some video) of a great fishing trip.
Baby, it’s cold outside and some of us might be looking south for a warm and exciting fishing adventure. Red drum are superb gamefish and offer some of the more exciting, accessible, and affordable saltwater fishing for fly rodders and light tackle enthusiasts. While they’re not salmonids, sea trout are another great gamefish, that often share the same water as drum.
Kyle will have some reliable suggestions on trips southward in search of these fish (and wirth reference to Louisiana, some Cajun food and good times).
He’ll also answer questions about Black Earth Angling’s ’24 Wisconsin fishing opportunities.
Please join us at Schwoegler’s on Grand Canyon Drive on Madison’s West Side on Tuesday, December 12. Dinner and drinks available at 530 with Kyle’s presentation starting about 7.
Schwoegler’s Lanes, 444 Grand Canyon Dr., Madison, WI 53719
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I am currently in the process of planning our 2024 Spring Workdays. If you have any suggestions, please pass them along to me. Pictured are Topf Wells and DNR staff Justin Haglund and Lloyd Meng (fur hat) inspecting a potential site.
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More great reading from a great trout biologist
By Topf Wells
That would be Justin Haglund, the Maestro of Melancthon. He just released his assessment of the Otter Creek watershed in Iowa County.
This is a set of trout streams that many of us overlook. It might be because Otter, the flagship, is a Class 2 stream for which stocking is essential. It has lots of public water and some of the tribs and nearby streams are Class 1 and a couple are superb. Read More
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Warm Thoughts and Big Fish at our December Meeting
Kyle Zempel shares a southern adventure on Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Baby, it’s cold outside and some of us might be looking south for a warm and exciting fishing adventure. Red drum are superb gamefish and offer some of the more exciting, accessible, and affordable saltwater fishing for fly rodders and light tackle enthusiasts. While they’re not salmonids, sea trout are another great gamefish, that often share the same water as drum.
Kyle will have some reliable suggestions on trips southward in search of these fish (and wirth reference to Louisiana, some Cajun food and good times).
He’ll also answer questions about Black Earth Angling’s ’24 Wisconsin fishing opportunities.
Please join us at Schwoegler’s on Grand Canyon Drive on Madison’s West Side on Tuesday, December 12. Dinner and drinks available at 530 with Kyle’s presentation starting about 7.
Schwoegler’s Lanes, 444 Grand Canyon Dr., Madison, WI 53719
Women’s Fly Fishing Clinics: Register now
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Also an opportunity in Oshkosh on February 3, 2024 — see below for details!
Please register now or share this with someone who may be interested. These fill up and we want our members to have an opportunity to take part in these groundbreaking clinics. (Check out the great story and pictures from this year’s successful clinic.)
There are two types of clinics detailed below with links and QR codes for more information. Both are set in Westby, WI (near Viroqua, in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area) and the cost is $355 until April 1 and $375 after that. Read More
Wrestling Invasives Along Whitford Creek
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By Topf Wells | Workday Report 1: November 4, 2023
No complaints about weather for this work day. Temps started in the high 30s and climbed to the low 50s, clear skies and no wind. Our effort matched the weather.
This was our third work day on the TPE Sylvan Road property, which features Whitford Creek, a Class 1 brook trout stream and the Dodge Branch. Re: the Dodge – no big brown trout there at all, nope not a one, nope, don’t bother to fish it at all. Our goals were to take out box elder and invasive honeysuckle in the area we had been working and to tackle the invasive willow along Whitford. Three great conservation organizations combined their efforts: SWTU, the Nohr Chapter, and the Southwest Chapter of TPE. Fourteen laborers from the three organizations entered the vineyard. With all the dang wild grape vines that’s not just a figure of speech. Read More
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