As I try to keep track of productive trout rivers in the Wisconsin Driftless Area, I’ll continue to share my trips and reports. I try to explore new rivers and creeks on each visit. Some are not productive or were difficult to access, but the ones that produced nice fish will be posted and shared. […]
Flyfishing the Driftless area of Wisconsin near Viroqua and Viola
Wisconsin driftless flyfishing the Blue River, Timber Coulee, Tainter Creek and Camp Creek
More fishing and fossils- Day 17
At over 2 weeks in on the quarantine, I have worked through more of my Mazon Creek fossil bucket. Nothing spectacular, but its been fun. Here is a public domain image of an interpretation of a Carboniferous Period landscape, with Calamites on the bottom right. Local fishing has been consistent, as I test out some […]
Day 12
Here are all the remaining Mazon Creek concretions I have left to crack. Unfortunately, it looks like Pit 11 will remain closed through April now as well. Some nice new fossils came open though. The neighborhood fishing excursion was successful. Panfish caught on my hand-tied wolly buggers. Also, in fun quarantine news, Les Stroud has […]
More Mazon Creek Fossils
New finds from old concretions that I had gathered from 2016-2020. Many of these have been through several freeze thaw cycles and didn’t break open, so I don’t mind using the rock hammer on these. Plus, these have mostly been from my ‘dud’ bucket, or concretions that don’t look like they’d hold a fossil, but […]
Day 8
A few more additions to the flybox.
Day 7
With some success, I recreated Chipotle’s hot salsa recipe. I combined instructions and ingredients from Culinary Hill and Buzzfeed to come up with: Ingredients 2-3 Tomatillos 3 Guajillo peppers 3 Chile de Arbol peppers 1 Roma tomato 1/2 Tsp Vinegar 2 Tbsp Lime Juice 1 Tbsp Tobasco sauce 1 chipotle pepper from a can 1/2 […]
Day 6
Day 6 of ‘shelter in place’ brings a Riker case of Mazon Creek fossils collected ~2017 out of a box I’ve been meaning to go through. There is a jellyfish, and a few species of plants. Followed by a walk in the park with the pup. Blackwell park is unfortunately closed to fishing. A dead, […]
Day 5
First bass of the year. Minor tent repair.
Day 4
I cracked around 30 Mazon Creek concretions today, and I still have many to go. The good thing is that a lot of them came cleanly open, and a freeze/thaw cycle wasn’t needed on any of them. The bad news is that, even though it was a clean split 90% of the time, nearly all […]
