An Ill Wind Bloweth

Dates: March 23, 2009
Location: Upper Warwick
Air temp: 30s
Water temp: ?
Hatches: ?
Fish landed: 0


Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

Xan
QD


On a cold and blustery Monday, the Draw and I decided to hit the Warwick for the first time this season. It probably wasn't the best idea to go fishing, but I had already taken the day off of work, so why the hell not.

After stopping to purchase a WI state park parking sticker, we headed up the road to one of our usual upper Warwick locations. It was a nice, overcast day, and the water levels were healthy, but a constant wind sucked our balls.

QD was not far upstream from me, fishing one of the known money runs, when I heard him curse. The fish he had on had snapped his line. That would be the only fish sighting between us. After a short session in the biting wind, we called it quits and went to get some food and regain feeling in our fingers.

Geocaching My Balls

Dates: March 21, 2009
Location: Upper & Canyon
Air temp: 40s?
Water temp: ?
Hatches: ?
Fish landed: 3


Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

QD
Coach
Xan


I met up with Quick and Coach at the parking lot of a spot above the Canyon. It was a bright and sunny Saturday morning, and the only other folks around were a group of kayakers. Water levels were slightly low, with a bit of a tint. QD and I walked upstream a bit, where I began to fish. While casting and conversing with Quick, who was on the bank setting up, I noticed a plastic water bottle wedged into the crack of a tree by him. I pointed it out, and upon his investigation, Quick reported that it was a geocache. In true Guild fashion, QD left his signature mark on the cache, and we continued on fishing.

With little action, we decided to head to the Canyon. We found many other fishermen there, but pressed on regardless. We hiked and fished our way past the alpha hole, with little reward. Coach caught one, while I caught three, neither of us getting anything of size. Regardless, I was triumphant over the mouth-breather.

Early Season Cak

Dates: March 14, 2009
Location: EPB&G Spot
Air temp: 50s
Water temp: 40
Hatches: midges
Fish landed: 1 Brown


Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

QD
the Lawyer(non UMFAG)

Well it was a great day, we started out by hitting the "Sportsman's Wherehouse" liquidation sale. it wasn't that great, 10-20% off i didn't end up buying anything.

We drove through the little unincorporated town to scope conditions, and found a shit ton of people fishing there for the second week in a row.

made it to the spot(cak), and started to get ready. didn't notice that many people fishing in that spot which is always cool. I did notice that the water was down a bit from where it was last week and fairly clear. Made my way down river and fished all of the good spots on my way, trying every early season fly that I had(no dries though). I had one strike all day on a red San Juan, pulled in a healthy 14"er that still had some spawning colors. Mark landed 3 browns and had around 10 strikes on kastmasters.

I fished my way up river back to mark and despite the slow fishing it was a beautiful day outside and I had a good time. we ended the day at "Sunsets" bar and grill, had some chicken wings and a turkey bacon sandwhich, with carmalized onions it was damn good.

-QD

Early Season, Fuck Yeah!

Dates: March 9, 2009
Location: EPB&G Spot
Air temp: 30s
Water temp: 36
Hatches: ?
Fish landed: 15 or 16 browns


Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

QD
Xan


I took the day off to join QD for some trout. Driving by spots around town, we were surprised by the number of folks on the stream. We arrived at the EP spot to find only one person in the parking lot and another two arriving shortly after.

Some considerable work has happened here since last September. An area between the parking lot and river has been cleared out, leveled, and adorned with three concrete mousin' stations.

A short hike downstream from the parking lot and I was into my first trout of the season, a brown around 14". The second fish took a while to materialize, and we then hiked down to fish between the crossings. Through the tea stained water came trout. Browns, in the 12-14" range. Hike down to the next run and repeat. I quickly hit double digits, and QD landed around 5. I was even able to get one while stripping a bugger, which makes me wonder what a non-fisher would think when reading that.

As the sun started to set, we went back to the parking lot and fished from the mousin' stations a bit, before calling it quits and getting some curry. Huzzah.

Put On Yer Boots

Dates: March 7, 2009
Location: Lawn
Air temp: 30s
Water temp: 36
Hatches: ?
Fish landed: zippo


Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

TAFKAY
Xan
Booter
Quickdraw
Gutterball




We set out in a two car caravan on Saturday, the first day of inland trout season. This past winter was more reasonable than the last, so the ice was mostly gone or on the banks and islands, rather on top of the water.




Unfortunately, the water levels had yet to subside from the recent thaw. The river was running like B-Chubnut's stool after his recent colon blow, fast and brown. We fished from the lawn to the second, larger pool upstream. Nobody caught shit.

While the fishing sucked, the sun came out and made it a nice day to be in the woods and on the water. We devised a new game, where not only do we send ice chunks down the stream, we then throw rocks at them. I realize that it sounds simple when written out, but trust me, this is some good stuff. Between that and throwing snowballs, rocks and logs into people's casting lanes and at each other, we had a full day.

But, no day would be complete without a trip to the EPB&G. A good day of throwing rocks creates a hunger that only spicy curds can satisfy.

Representin' FAGUMC

Date: Jan 17, 2009
Location: Peg Leg
Air temp:10s
Water temp: cold as shit
Hatches: Bait
Fish landed: 2 'Bows


Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

QuickDraw
Non FAGs:
Coach McGuirk
The Lawyer

First post of the year!!!
Well yesterday officially opened the trout season for me, went to peg leg for some trout ice fishing. I don't have a ton to report, but we got out there around 10:30 and fished till 1:30. We saw quite a few trout throughout the day but as always they were really picky. I got more action out there yesterday than I did all of my times out there last year combined. Probably the best day of fishing I've ever had out on Peg Leg. Caught 2 14"ers, and they're sitting in the smoker awaiting a batch of smoked trout chowder. Can't wait.

Coach caught a small northern and The Lawyer caught the Skunk!(yeah bitchez, you can't fuk with a UMFAG member)

My goal is to hit the early season hard, as of April 2 or thereabouts I'll be a Papa, and grooming a future fishing partner. Hopefully a ton of posts coming up with pictures of multiple 22" brookies.

Signing off
-QD

Cold Blows the Wind

Date: Oct 26, 2008
Location: Land of the Lost
Air temp: 30s
Water temp: ???
Hatches: --
Fish landed: 1 Lake Wolf


Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

QuickDraw
TAFKAY

It was a cold and stormy morning.
Well, By the time TAFKAY got to my house, it was a cold and stormy afternoon, but that's to be expected.
;)

we got out to the lake around 11:30 i think and we shot the shit with Coach McGuirk for a while. it took a while to get the boat started but once it was up and running we were soon trolling. the Winds were really whipping across the lake and I had a difficult time maintaining a straight line troll. we decided to head for shallow/calmer water to the west side of the lake.

we finally got out of the wind and were casting in shallo water. he hit the spot between the J-hole and the southern point for some time before moving south along the shore. We didn't have any luck in that spot so eventully we decided to move to the edge of the alpha hole and try our luck there.

We hit a few sppots along the edge of the alpha, using the anchors to hold us out of the wind. once we moved to the far south western edge of the alpha, TAFKAY had his first strike. that was really cool, but the fish quickly got off. Soon after that he got another one on which was putting on a good fight, he loostened the drag a bit and soon enough we got the fish in the boat. we didn't get a measurement on the fish but by my estimate it was near 30".

good fish and a good day to be out despite the "first snow" and cold weather.

This one is for the White tigers, they are the tastiest of all the tigers.