Houston County is the best-kept secret in the Minnesota Driftless, but there is a new fly shop to help anglers figure it out.  Located in the town of Houston, right on the way to great streams such as East Beaver Creek, Winnebago Creek and Crooked Creek, Money Creek Outfitters offers flies, gear, guided fishing trips and kayak rentals.  Owner Josh Norlien is passionate and knowledgeable about his local streams.  Check it out!

by Yves Charron, TCTU President
I had a chance to fish the St. Croix last weekend with Evan Griggs and the Fishing For All team. What an enjoyable day on the river.   Below are some photos of the adventure

I was in Japan last week and when I flew back to Minneapolis on Saturday, frost warnings and rumors of snowflakes had been replaced by more typical mid-September weather, if you live in Alabama, that is.  87 degrees is ridiculous. I fell asleep at about 8:30 pm and woke up just past midnight yesterday with a nasty case of jet lag. I spent the next 9 hours drinking coffee, staring at the wall, watching Packers highlights on YouTube and being generally useless until I decided enough was enough and willed myself into my car to drive out to a trout stream.

As if you didn't have enough reasons to attend our September 22nd chapter meeting in-person at the Gnome Craft Pub, here is another:  5-star food!

by Jim Sauter
The fall equinox is fast approaching and will be here at 1:19 pm on September 22.  In Victoria, Minnesota, we are losing about two minutes of daylight per day.  The water temperatures are cooling, over 360 million birds in the USA have already started their migration journey, and the trout are beginning to fatten up and take on their fall colors in preparation for the spawning season. 
 
During my last fishing outing at the end of August in a western Wisconsin stream, the trout were very active.  Tom Rosenbauer, in one of his Orvis podcasts, refers to this as, "...aggressive feeding behavior."  The brown trout were aggressively attacking my nymphs and dry flies in riffle windows.  I landed just about every fish.  Every bite was a hookup.  This was by far my best fishing day of the season in Wisconsin.  I just love those days!