Fishing Stories

Puffballs are easy to identify for the beginning mushroom hunter because there are no poisonous species. The larger puffballs grow on composted soil and meadows. Fist-sized or larger puffball mushrooms are unmistakable. Puffballs grow on the ground or on...

Last Wednesday there was a photo of a nice walleye in my hometown newspaper. The editor decided to include me in the caption of some other guy's big fish glory photo. It said:  "The One Len Didn't Catch." I thought...

We were on the stream by 9:00am and off by 12:30pm. The stretch was amazing. We both landed over 50 browns each.  There was a stretch that Floren and I caught or had a hit on 20 consecutive casts. I got...

About a week ago my mail carrier Jim Gainor gave me a tip on a big trout he had follow right here in Richland Center. I stored it in my memory for another day. That another day was this...

Can you see Sam's head peaking out of the weeds? The hole is not very deep. Maybe 3.5 feet at max. The top of the hole necks down and is really shallow. The bottom of the hole is a culvert...