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Our laundry list: Fish Iowa Get the Facebook page up Fish Iowa Work on online shopping Fish Iowa Get the hint?  Iowa is a fantastic fishery and one that you can fish all season long.  We guide over there and would love to help you explore another portion of the Driftless Area...

Season ends tomorrow night!

Just a reminder that Wisconsin's trout season ends on September 30th at 11:59 p.m.

It has been busy here as the season in Wisconsin winds down.  Fishing has been spectacular at times, and very good at worst.  Fish are putting on their fall colors (one recent guide trip landed quite a few male brook trout with kype and teeth!) and are aggressive chasing...

Coming off a nasty late season cold (an annual event it seems).  Fishing has been very good, and continues to get better as cool temperatures and light rain hover over our area.  Olives have been coming off in the afternoons and sometimes extending into dark, scuds and leeches have...

One of our local tyers and a great kid many of you have seen on the water is over in Ecuador for a few months.  He remembered his fly rods. Mat, Here's a picture of the first brown I've caught in Ecuador. Browns, Brookies, and Rainbows were stocked here in the 19th century by people from...

Thank goodness for our good friend (and shop rat) Brian.  We have been busy here at the shop and keep forgetting the camera the past couple of weeks while out fishing.  Here are a couple of pictures of some aggressive leech eating fish.   The fishing has been fantastic with...

You will have to deal with no fish pictures for now.  I keep leaving my camera at home!   Fishing has been fantastic.  I am still in my waders at the shop while writing this after a morning of guiding.  Late summer conditions have hit and the fish are getting more colorful...

We have been getting a bunch of questions as to why we are reporting scuds being highly successful this summer.   Scuds generally live in the slower water areas of a trout stream (sandy edges, weed beds, in spring heads etc).  On our waters they make up a major part of a trout's...