What the heck is wrong with fishermen in general. "Oh I'm so scared someone may fish in my spot". Well for one thing, it is not only your spot. And 2nd, everyone pays lip service to "I want everyone to experience how wonderful fly fishing is" but me "I'm never going to tell anyone where I fish" I'm not saying you have to give GPS coordinates, but hey, here are some some good rivers and streams to try. Put in here and you have a good 1/4, 1/2. or even a mile to fish. I don't understand the mind set "I have to protect my little spot" When people ask me about a river I've fished, I tell them put in here or try this general area. Or even just try this river or that river. Check out this map (like a Gazetteer map) or the DNR they will point you in the direction of a good put in spot. If we were just a little more KINDER to our fellow fishers maybe our sport would open up more, and river conservation, & being one with nature would flourish. Youth would value being out in nature rather than being in a house always on a phone or computer. The true value of protecting our wonderful world would be passed on to the next generation. Sorry, not sorry about my post.

The year the Little Plover River went dry was 2005. Crossroad Commons development started in 2004. In the Crossroads Commons development area, there were at least twelve ponds excavated. Does the evaporation from these ponds on the hot summer days affect the flow of the groundwater to the Little Plover River?

When the DNR, EPA, CDC, Natural Resource Board, etc. do their job and Trout Unlimited, Audubon, Sierra Club, etc. want me to write to my elected legislatures hopefully something positive will get done with the neonicotinoid problem. As for the mayflies on the Mississippi River an article in the La Crosse Tribune stated that due to high water for a good length of time the upland trees died, the ash trees died because of the emerald ash borer, and the reed canary grass prevented the riparian zone trees, Eastern Cottonwood trees and Black willow trees their seeds from germinating whose leaves provide food for the Mississippi River mayflies. So hopefully, the Eastern Cottonwood trees and Black Willow trees will get restored manually so the mayflies have a full belly.

Here's the link the Mayfly Tracker (hex hatch on the Mississippi River picked up by weather radar). www.weather.gov/arx/mayfly_tracking

Here's the link to the EPA's current review of Neonicotinoid Insecticides that was referenced. www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/schedule-review-neonicotinoid-pesticides

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How many of the streams in Oconto and Marinette Counties have resident Longnose Suckers and White Suckers? Do the Longnose Suckers and White Suckers migrate from Lake Michigan up into the Oconto and Marinette Counties streams and rivers to spawn in the Spring? Do the Brook Trout guides in Oconto and Marinette Counties take their clients to catch 5lb plus Brook Trout if the Longnose and White Suckers are spawning in the Oconto and Marinette Counties streams and rivers? The Canadian guides always target the White Suckers spawning in the Spring for their clients because the 5lb plus Canadian Brook Trout are gorging on White Sucker eggs.

Guys like Brandon are the reason kids in a hundred of years will have the priviledge of catching trout with their grandpas. Props to you dude.

Thanks guys. Keep up the good work

Brandon, "pastures and oak". Time for a history lesson: French fur trading in Wisconsin started around 1650. The beaver pelt was the main fur that the French fur traders sent back to Montreal, Canada. Between 1650 to 1850 most of the beaver were trapped out of Wisconsin streams. When the beaver dams on Wisconsin streams began disappearing the vegetation on the streambanks changed on many streams from riparian zone vegetation to upland zone vegetation (pre-settlement 1850). That is why when the surveyor in 1850 did his surveying he found where the upland zone trees (oak) that could not survive alongside a beaver pond had encroached into the riparian zone. The Westby Rod and Gun stream restoration crew were also trappers in the Fall and Winter. When the Westby Rod and Gun stream restoration crew did stream restoration, they restored the vegetation (Black Willow trees and Eastern Cottonwood Trees) alongside of Driftless Area streams for a riparian zone environment. (pre -fur trapper 1640) (I remember a scientific angler say that Rullands Coulee Creek is where you can find all the hatches of various mayflies) When fly fishermen ask, "where have all the mayflies and caddisflies gone?" You've heard of co-evolution between the monarch butterfly and the milkweed, well, the mayflies and caddisflies co-evolved with the riparian zone trees, black willow trees and eastern cottonwoods for many years. That is why when the ignorant stream ecologists plant upland oak trees on Wisconsin streambanks, the aquatic inhabitants in the riparian zone (stream environment) can't survive and end up on the endangered lists. "Now you know the rest of how I tell the story."

Brandon, are there any other native fish, native crayfish, native amphibians, etc. in the streams you surveyed? The DNR used rotenone and DNR shocking crew to kill all the native fish in various streams. The DNR still refers to the other native fish as rough fish. P.S. The rough fish, where still available, (Bohemian Creek 1999 Fish Survey showed no forage fish) used to make up the majority of the food chain of Brook Trout and Brown Trout over 12 inches.

Brandon, with young men like you in the environmental profession Mother Nature's Driftless Area streams will be cool and livable for our beloved native Brook Trout.

If TUDARE and the DNR"S restored the native Black Willow Trees and native Eastern Cottonwood Trees along the Ordovician Dolostone Driftless Area streambanks the daytime temperature of the water in the Ordovician Dolostone would be as cool or cooler than the Cambrian Sandstone streams. The nighttime temperature of the water in the Ordovician Dolostone streams would correspondingly also be much lower. C'mon, TUDARE and the DNR's let's restore the native Black Willow Trees and native Eastern Cottonwood Trees to our Driftless Area streambanks so the water temperature is perfectly cool for our beloved Native Brook Trout. P.S. Don't forget the valleys also get the cooling water vaper into the atmosphere from the transpiration from the leaves of the native Black Willow Trees and the leaves of the native Eastern Cottonwood Trees. Also, don't forget the native Black Willow Trees and native Eastern Cottonwood Trees have the function of neutralizing the chemical toxic silt from the stream channel bed deposited on the streambank after a flood. Let's help Mother Nature clean up our streams by restoring the native Black Willow Trees and native Eastern Cottonwood Trees and remember to Practice and Preach GLOBAL COOLING for our beloved Native Brook Trout. Another plus, Mother Nature's Black Willow Trees and Eastern Cottonwood Trees provide up to 80% of the nutrients in the food chain of the aquatic inhabitants in the Driftless Area streams in all four seasons, Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

I was watching this while stocking my local stream with Brown trout. 💩

I do not remember seeing notification of this meeting.

Another KZbin video in Southwest Montana on the Big Hole River, Beaverhead River and Ruby River which is next to Idaho, "Montana PBS: Trout Decline-The Problems & Solutions." I don't believe they found any solutions by the private scientists and the Montana Fish Biologists. Does the 90-year-old woman rancher's statement "That the Trout and Salmon disappeared when they cut the trees down along the river" come into the discussion again? Google: Montana cottonwoods and there aren't many cottonwood trees in Southwest Montana. Did the big elk herd in Yellowstone Park eat all the willow trees and cottonwood trees in Southwest Montana for a hundred years?

The KZbin Video, "In-Depth Study Guide on the Diseases of Trout" should also be part of this discussion because the three leading states with Farm Raising Trout Farms are Idaho, California and North Carolina.

Seas Branch Creek has been poisoned with rotenone by the Wisconsin DNR to kill the native fish in the Seas Branch Creek. That is one reason there is no food chain for brook trout over 12 inches in Seas Branch Creek. Also, if the DNR poisoned the "rough fish" as the native fish are referred to by the DNR the DNR shocking crew probably removed any remaining rough fish. The rough fish along with frogs and crayfish are included in the big brook trout food chain. Without timber in the stream and on the streambank, there will be little chance for voles or salamanders.

Google "Idaho's Floodplain and Riparian Cottonwood Forests" by Chris Murphy (Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game Ecologist) and read the 32-page PDF for some information on this subject and to substantiate the 90+ year old woman rancher's remarks on how the native riparian cottonwood trees were destroyed. In the Southwest United States, you have canyons and mountains called cottonwood canyons and cottonwood mountains and the cottonwoods are gone from the canyons and mountains. Someday I would like to read a Wisconsin DNR Ecologist's report on the disappearing Riparian Eastern Cottonwood Trees and Black Willow Trees along our Wisconsin streams, rivers and lakes. Especially the disappearing Eastern Cottonwood Trees and Black Willow Trees along the Driftless Area streams.

I was watching a KZbin video where a 90+ year old woman rancher stated that the trout and salmon disappeared from the Snake River when all the native trees were cut down or sprayed with an herbicide on the Snake River riverbank. By removing the native trees from the Snake River riverbank 80% of the nutrients for the aquatic inhabitants was removed from the Snake River trout and salmon food chain. With the 80% of the food chain removed from the Snake River 80% of the Snake River smolts returning to the ocean would die from starvation. With the native trees gone there would be no shading and the Snake River water would heat up and the Snake River riverbanks would also be hot. Without the branches and trees falling into the Snake River the smolts would not have protection from predators in the Snake River. We must also ask the climatologists how the removal of the native trees from the Snake River riverbank affected the fog and dew in the Snake River valley. The climatologist has to answer how the removal of the transpiration from the leaves on the Snake River riverbank trees affected the cooling of the Snake River valley and the rainfall and snowfall. The 90+ year old woman rancher was more knowledgeable than most fish biologists.

The number one reason I support environmental organizations is for safeguarding our water in our streams, rivers, lakes and our groundwater aquifers. Great presentation.

Great content, thank you very much for all your hard work!

What a nice video.

When TUDARE and the DNR's are knowledgeable of why Mother Nature had native riparian zone trees (eastern cottonwood trees, black willow trees, water elm trees, etc.) on the streambanks of our streams and rivers in the great State of Wisconsin the TU workdays can be used to restoring native riparian zone trees in the Driftless Area Watersheds. In fact, the riparian zone trees can be restored to the shorelines of streams, rivers and lakes throughout the State of Wisconsin. Please leave the toxic oaks and walnuts and acidic pines in the uplands.

Watershed Communities can adapt to the various watersheds that are in the State of Wisconsin.

I finally agree with Jason that the Watershed Communities should be more involved when talking erosion in a particular watershed. Trout Unlimited talk about the next "gully washer" but to prevent a "gully washer" dams have to be built on the ridge before the gully going down through the woods to the valley to slow down the rainwater runoff from the ridge farmers' fields. Some of the fertilizer in the rainwater runoff from the ridge farmers' fields will settle out in the pond behind the ridge dam and in a functioning draw going through the woods to the valley.

Check out Jason's blog - The Scientific Fly Angler. "Naturally Curious". www.thescientificflyangler.com/

A quote from page 29 in the book, Disconnected Rivers by Ellen Wohl, "Humans try to treat rivers as canals, and diversity and variability are unwelcome challenges. But the variability of a natural river creates a diversity of habitats that support an assortment of aquatic organisms in the channel and riverside organisms in the floodplain. Many of these organisms are adapted to or require the disturbances associated with a natural river." -------------------- I hope and pray that the Wisconsin DNR sits back and reflects on how and why Mother Nature uses the power of floods to create habitats for the endangered female bumblebee, amphibians, riparian birds and streamside birds, small mammals, snakes, etc. in the streamside environment. The Wisconsin DNR should be restoring the riparian trees, Eastern Cottonwood Trees, Black Willow Trees, Water Elm Trees, etc. for the nesting sites of the endangered and threatened riparian birds, tree frogs, mammals, insects, etc. The cooling effects of the riparian trees along the streams is a benefit to the complete watershed in these days of global warming. --------------- Wisconsin DNR and TUDARE please try to understand Mother Nature's master plan and please no more quarry rock canals in the Driftless Area.

Very interesting

Sorry I missed this! Very good. My two cents on what Andy called the "Green Artesian". I've never heard of that, but Cap's first fly on his first fly rod in the 1920s was what he called an "Artesian Green" tied by his cousin Otto. It was not originated by Ed. His cousin Otto agreed to teach him to fly fish if Cap promised to never carry live bait again, which ties in with the "No Worms" sign at the fly shop. Sorry I missed this.

Thank you. This was very good. I'll be watching it, again.

Thanks for sharing!

Here's the link to the Fish Vis maps website. We hope you take some time and check it out. www.usgs.gov/media/images/fishvis-mapper#:~:text=The%20FishVis%20Mapper%20is%20the,species%20occurrence%20under%20current%20climate

What an absolute shame to see Brook Trout Habitat loss that results from increasing water temps due to impacts that root from humans. It's the classic case of the Arctic Grayling Salmon in the upper portion of Michigan during the 1800s

How do we know how many trout are ont here ? In Vilas co that don't check many streams. I only see record of plum creek.... that was in 1990s.

Be sure to check out the TroutRoutes website for more info! troutinsights.com/

I have been fly fishing the Wolf since I was 11 years old as my Dad grew up in Hollister (My Great Grandmother owned the store in Hollister). It was fun to hear everyone talking about the Wolf as I haven't been there since 2019. Thank you all for sharing your memories and experience. John Brouillard

Excellent conversation and information. Thanks Geri, Mat, and Mike.

Wonderful presentation! Thank you!

Really enjoyed this, just started exploring the Wolf. Thanks for making it available. Tied up 3 varieties of the flies detailed here. Mixed some squirrel tail hair in on the deer hair wing, primarily for the color. Results look good to me, will see how the trout like it.

You can check out more of Jason's work on this blog - The Scientific Fly Angler www.thescientificflyangler.com/

Dont forget the AWESOME mapping tool TROUTROTES it is so much easier to use

Here's the DNR's TROUT mapping Tool that was mentioned in the episode. dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Fishing/trout/TROUT.html

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All the rock the stream restoration crews use along our Driftless Area streams would be put to better use to build dams on the ridge before the gullies going down into the valley. The dams would catch and hold the rainwater runoff and snow melt water runoff laced with fertilizer and chemicals from the ridge farmer's fields. Over time the water retained behind the dams would soak into the ground and replenish the groundwater which eventually provides more spring water in the valleys. The dirt banks along the stream are used by the hibernating female bumblebees in the Winter. The dirt banks along the stream are the nesting habitat for the bank swallow and the kingfisher. The dirt banks provide the silt that certain mayfly nymphs reside in and the silt where you find leeches which are both great food for fish in our Driftless Area streams. When they say stream restoration the DNR and TU never restore the river trees, Black Willow, Eastern Cottonwood, and the Water Elm. The Black Willow was harvested back in the early 1900's because the Black Willow wood was the preferred wood for artificial limbs. The Eastern Cottonwood was the favorite wood for caskets. The Water Elm or American Elm was devastated by Dutch Elm's Disease. The Black Willow and Eastern Cottonwood has the ability to neutralize certain chemicals that enter the Driftless Area streams and groundwater from the farmer's fields, homeowner's lawns, and city sewer systems.

The fishing regulations should be changed to protect native fish that are classified as rough fish.

Brook trout dominated by Brown Trout is NOT a hard problem to solve. All you have to do is restore the FOOD CHAIN for BIG Brook Trout. Look at the Endangered List and Threatened List of small mammals, amphibians and native fish in Wisconsin especially the water shrew, salamanders, frogs, native fish, crayfish etc. which are in the diet of BIG Brook Trout. You have to leave some brush piles along streams for habitat for small mammals and provide food for small mammals like raspberries, black berries, wild grapes and native plants with seeds. You have to provide backwater for the aquatic inhabitants of a stream that need this habitat for reproduction. You have to restore the river trees like black willow, eastern cottonwood and if possible, the water elm. Yes, the loggers harvested the black willow to extinction whose wood was used for artificial limbs in the early 1900's, the loggers harvested the eastern cottonwood wood because eastern cottonwood was the favorite wood for caskets, and the water elm was devastated by Dutch Elm Disease. The river tree's leaves, seeds, and branches provide up to 80 % of the nutrients the aquatic inhabitants need in their diet in all four Seasons, Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. You do this and more, so the Big Brook Trout FOOD CHAIN is restored, and 5-10-pound Big Brook Trout will compete with brown trout. How many eggs does a female 10-pound Brook Trout have compared to the present day 10-inch female Brook Trout? P.S. Don't forget that Big Brook Trout in Canada gorge themselves on the White Sucker eggs in early Spring after a long, cold Winter.

Great Video! It always puzzled me how to cast to carp. Because I always spook them. Now I know. :)

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Thank you DNR and Kasey for your work, professionalism, and commitment. Given the varied geology of Wisconsin, I'd assume collaborations with other fisheries biologists around the state would be beneficial; thinking specifically about the mid-state/sand counties which have a zillion trout steams with sandy stream beds.