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The Driftless Region is full of meandering streams and rivers with cold, spring-fed water pushing through the rocks — making it one of the best trout-fishing habitats in the country. Trout season runs ...
Driftless Fly Fishing Company offers free classes every other Saturday. John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007.
In fact, Melvin M. Hayner's Driftless Fly Fishing Company could put Preston on the national trout-fishing map — it's an Orvis-endorsed shop and is on Orvis' Web page.
He’s the Outreach Coordinator for the Driftless Area Restoration Effort. He also works for Trout Unlimited. The last study in 2008 found the trout fishing industry had a $1.1 billion impact.
This fly is an impressionistic version of the natural leeches and small lamprey eels that inhabit the Driftless Region.
Some fly fishing purists have called tenkara “dapping” and some tenkara purists have alleged those who tie an Adams to a tenkara rod are committing some infraction as well.
Mel Hayner, owner of The Driftless Fly Fishing Company, joins in studio to discuss fly fishing in the Driftless Area of Minnesota.
Before I get any farther into this, I should tell you that Devin, Jason Randall, Nick Conklin and I were fishing the Driftless area before we were scheduled to work at the Midwest Fly Fishing Expo ...
Fly fishing expert’s most underrated and overrated trout streams of southeast Minnesota’s Driftless Area.
The Driftless Area of Iowa is located in the northeastern part of the state, extending roughly from Manchester to the Minnesota border and east toward the great Mississippi. It is a space ...
The Wisconsin early catch-and-release trout fishing season opened Jan. 7 in much of the state, including the Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin.