Turbulent weather this week across the midwest put SE Minnesota in a thunderstorm track that produced cold, gusty and sustained winds in mid-week. Streams swollen with runoff from last weekend peaked at about 4 times normal May flows and remained off-color at mid-week, although flows had subsided by half by late Thursday. The South Branch […]
Fishing Report: Thursday, May 9, 2019
Welcome Back Friends of Preston’s National Trout Center (The Voice of the Driftless) Yesterday I started to worry that the 2019 trout fishing season was going to be a repeat of 2018 when it rained almost every Thursday, muddying the streams and making SE MN unfishable for most of the summer. The forecast was for 2” […]
Open Water Trout Season, 2019
Today we welcome the dawn of the 2019 stream trout season throughout Minnesota’s Driftless Region. While winter-hardy fishers have enjoyed the catch-and-release fishing in SE Minnesota since the beginning of the New Year, the traditional mid-April “catch-and-maybe-keep” season remains a calendar entry for a significant number of trout fishers across the upper midwest. The National […]