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Note the lilly pads on the left of the photo. Find dark, steadily moving water in the temp range of 55-58, and you will no doubt find brook trout hanging along the edges of the pads, just out of the current. We call this sort of water, Frogwater. If there's a loonshit bottom, even better.
Joe Guild has seen a smallie rise about 60 feet downstream on the Paint River. It's tucked in behind a small boulder. He double-hauls, plops the streamer inches from the fish's head and wham, fish on, to net and released!The ability to cast accurately counts. For the record, Upper Peninsula smallmouth waters do not get much pressure from flyrodders or any other kind of anglers, which means most rivers with smallies will border on virgin when you visit, and if you're willing to get away from roads and bridges and other signs of civilization.
Comes a day when you decide today we catch and release into grease. Roll each fish in cornmeal. Put a pinch of brown sugar inside each brookie (to cut the iodine flavor), put some thick slices of lemon and shallots inside each fish and on top of each, sprinkle some capers on top, add gobs of butter, wrap them in foil and grill until they are browned. Goes pretty good with a brew. If you're luck on same day, maybe you have some fresh blueberries, thimbleberries, and/or raspberries, and dump a gob of these on a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
An isolated stream, lots of woody debris for cover, a beaver dam, overcast sky, slight drizzle, and fish beginning to rise. My heart pounds just to look at the scene on the Carp River.
       
The title for this one might be "Soft Landing." The monarch has crashed into an old bird's nest. If you look at the butterfly's wing you will see there is some structural damage. It's interesting what you find if you bother to look around.
Fishing the Carp River jungle off so-called Ozark Road, Mackinac-Chippewa Counties border area.
Purple coneflower preserve, Mackinac County.
The woods just south of the Yellow Dog River, in December 2006, five minutes before the snow began to fall.
       
Does this look like brook trout water?[ANSWER: It's mostly BIG brown trout water on the Au Sable River downstream of Mio]
"Hey Pop, we LOVE snow." [Note: the thorn branches are stuck to Shanahan. And his underbelly is coated with orange-size ice balls, and he thinks the whole deal is fun. Dogs!]
Grady Service's recipe for pan-fried trout -- using browns instead of brookies
Fish truck. Impossible to say if this is the start or finish of the journey. The back of the truck looks pretty much the same at any time or location in the trip.
       
The Unexpected Variety of Shrooms. One year at fish camp the weather was cold, the fish not interested and within a couple of hours the Bullshidos gathered all of these fungi from the Lake County woods and I assmbled it all on a table. The possibilities for creative photography or painting, or sculping were obvious, yet it seemed to me few people understood the magnitude of sheer variety out there. None were consumed. Looking is one thing. Figuring out what's safe to eat is another.
Brook trout, North Branch, Au Sable River.
After the rain with God on the Trophy Waters, below Mio.
Backstage at Soviet Department of State, a few minutes before a press conference.
      
       
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