April 2026

Meeting will be held on April 27th at 6:00 PM at the Kro Bar in Brule.

Now that a new season is here, are you ready? The Club has useful angler maps for both the lower and upper river. We also have a booklet describing how to tie some flies that are favorites of some of the Club members. These are available through the Club Store, click on Club Store.  

The Unconventional Mop Fly Dean Wellman, BRSC Financial Secretary – Brule, WI I was introduced to this fly by Club member Richard Goddard when we were working on his October 2020 Fly of the Month (Hank’s Creation). He kindly sent me a generous portion of mop chenille commenting, “You need to try the Mop Fly.”…

There are a few invasive species present along or in the Brule River that need monitoring, but one of the most troubling potential invaders is the New Zealand mudsnail (click on Mudsnails to learn more).  In 2013, mudsnails were discovered for the first time in inland Wisconsin waters in Black Earth Creek, a popular trout…

Trout Unlimited has put together a 5-minutes video on cleaning your fishing gear. It might just save your the Brule or your favorite river. Cleaning our gear can minimize the risk of spreading invasive species to different bodies of water as we fish. To read about the background of the video, click on Cleaning gear.…

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources video-monitored trout and salmon migration at the fishway from July through November. The brown trout run slowed sharply following August rainfall. Steelhead and coho salmon arrived when the river was low; highest counts occurred from late-September through mid-October. The run wrapped up in mid-November with rapidly dropping water temperatures.…

Spawning habitat partitioning can be important for maintaining sympatric fish species. Likewise, critical spawning habitat loss may challenge the long-term persistence of sympatric fish species. Two of our recent College Scholarship recipients, Ben Schleppenbach and Danny McCann, just published a paper about how the Brule’s trout and salmon partition spawning habitat in the river. To…

Many anglers in the western U.S. are snagged in an ethical dilemma brought on by a warming climate: When the trout you’re fishing need cold water, and cold water is increasingly scarce, how and when should you fish? Click on, Too Hot to read about the problem in Montana.