A good week indeed, considering the slump I'm coming out of. After a few other failed attempts at landing a carp on fly gear, I finally brought one to shore in the concrete section on the Menomonee River over Memorial Day Weekend. The fish wasn't as big as the one I hooked in the marina a while back, but this river carp took off downstream and led me on quite a chase! It was like trying to slow down Juggernaut from X-Men with a 2X tippet! I never really did slow the fish down, it circled back upstream and looped around. As the fish came back down, I scooped it with the net. I snapped one quick picture and released the fish.
A little later on, I was making casts at a pike, and what I thought was a pile of goose poo jumped in and attacked my fly. It scared the hell out of me!
Bullfrog on a Woolly Bugger, that's a first! the frog was very upset with me, but he seemed fine once he got back in the water.
Yesterday was such a beautiful day, I made a last minute decision to make one last trip into Waukesha County for the season before it's unfishable.
The grass is already getting tall, but the water isn't overgrown yet. The ground is still very swampy downstream, and I had hits, but no takes. I decided to try it out upstream on more solid, manicured ground. I was able to find some nice fish in the relatively short period I was there. I fished about an hour, landed three trout and missed about a half dozen or so. Two of them were really close to ten inches, one was about five. All were beautiful
I took one of the nature trails through the wilderness back to my car. Everything turned green so quick this spring. Soon it will be unbearably hot and humid.
When the dog days come, I'll be waist deep in the Milwaukee chasing smallmouth bass.
