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Western wi trout fishing has been pretty good so far

Got out this morning before work in a stream south of Madison, was fishing by 6AM. I had my eater fish on the stringer before 7, and spent the next hour and a half playing catch-and-release with small spinners.

Orange appeared to be the color-of-choice. All fish 10-11" stocked rainbows. Creek was still pretty cold and the water plenty clear.

Nice to be out!

Nice brook trout ! No trout were hitting this morning.

We will try again tonight.

Trouter

fished saturday and it started snowing hard caught this brooke on a No 6 yellow with silver blade panther martin

Went out mid last week water was still high and muddy on one of the creeks I fish but the other was not to bad caught 7 n brookies 2 were over 12 and 1 brown that was 20

I can't agree that having otters around is a bad thing. Might get a few trout, but no biggie.

They're better fisherman than humans, that's for sure.

I saw some two summers ago and stopped fishing just to watch.

Saw an otter on Monday afternoon in the Southwest corner of Porters Lake, so they're still around. That one was pretty big too, although it's hard to judge the full size when they're in the water.

He was diving to a clam bed below, bringing them up, flipping over on his back, and then opening them/eating them. Kind of fun to watch. He did that for about 20-25 minutes.

I agree totally about the otters being detrimental to a trout stream. I know guys that trap them but it has been years since I've seen or heard of an otter being in this part of the Roche Cri. I know a guy that got one a few years back on our family property that was pushing 70 lbs. That thing was huge!

The 2 foot long trout I missed in my own backyard stream is driving me crazy !!

He would not lower himself to rise to take my rapala.

In complete desperation, I bought a dozen worms last night. Now that breakfast is history, I hope now to catch that big fish.

I missed a medium brown yesterday. I caught 2 brook. One was pushing past 12 inches and will grown to hopefully monstereous s proportions.

Otters are cute. They also experts at cleaning all the trout out of a stream. Trap them all !!!

If you have a permit...

Trouter

Oh yeah all fish weren't stockers. Nice pink and orange meat. Yummy and man I'm liking the small Rapala X-raps

Fished yesterday for a couple hours on a stream in northern Adams county. Tried throwing some spinners and small rapalas but all they would do is give chase and hit short. Luckily I had a shovel in my truck and went a couple miles up the road on some family property and dug some crawlers out of some swamp land. Went back down and had a fish the very first cast. Nice 12 inch brookie. Missed a couple from the same whole and moved upstream a little to the next hole. Got a nice, not stocked brown at 15 inches. Headed to another spot by a bridge just down stream of where I started and managed one more 11 inch brookie. Got my limit in about an hour and headed home. I usually only keep a limit or two at most from this creek as it gets hammered pretty good on the weekends.

Highlight of the day was so much of catching some nice trout, but I got to see a couple young otters playing in the stream about 50 yards ahead of me. Really neat to see!

19.5

Great opening day in Portage Co. I caught 1 9in brown, 7 12in browns, 2 16s, 18.5, and a 19.5!! My cuz caught 7 12-15 inches

Fished saturday morning till tuesday evening in southwest wisconsin. Fishing started very good and had my limit the first day in 1hr. Good thing, cause the streams got public easment this year. By 8am there where 20 vehicles on the road and 5 groups cut up the stream in front of me. Like a circus!!! Every license plate except 2 where illinois. Beautiful days for opening weekend. Sunday was much slower cause of the pressure. But managed to get my limit every day. finished off going to a great stream with big trout tuesday, not one footprint to be seen. My evening and fishing opener ended with this nice rainbow!

As per my custom, I began my trout season by visiting the stream I learned to fish trout on.

The first trout was a brook that was a hit and run.

The next was a brown that was too small.

Trout 3 and 4 were about a foot long and looked lonely, so I took them home.

The last trout was a 16 inch brown with a frog in his belly.

Not bad for 2 hours.

I love stream fishing for trout.