The cold weather has hit here in the midwest. Many lakes are starting to freeze forcing anglers to either slow down presentations or find moving water... or both. Stream trout season is closed until early winter season starts in another month. Options are limited. The weekend found me on the upper Mississippi with a 7wt. spey rod practicing double speys and snake rolls. On occasion, a deep broadside or swung streamer would bring a smallmouth bass from the deeper runs... leaving the slow moving pools to the bait fisherman. Fish in the slightly faster water were small (10-13 inches) but enough to provide action and much needed casting practice.
To my amazement the run I was fishing was briefly interrupted by a pair of passing Trumpeter swans. I remember just a couple decades ago wildlife managers taking swan eggs from Montana birds and bringing them here to Minnesota. The birds are now becoming common site.
Learn more about the trumpeter swans' comeback by visiting
The Trumpeter Swan Society webpage.
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