July 2025

Meeting will be held on July 28th at 6:00 PM at the Kro Bar in Brule.

Mike Lawson’s No Hackle Dry Fly Dean Wellman, BRSC Financial Secretary – Brule, WI If you “Google” the No Hackle Dry Fly, you find that it dates back to the early 1800s (probably due to lack of small quality hackle feathers).  Samual Taylor’s Hare’s Ear Dry Fly is described in Angling in All its Branches…

This year’s first habitat work day will be July 26th and will be removing alder along the Little Brule. We’re asking volunteers to meet at the end of Dennis Road at 9 AM. After a morning’s work, we’ll enjoy a Club provided lunch.  

Oak wilt was first found in 2018 and is most commonly spread along road rights-of-way. It can often be prevented and controlled if NO damage (cutting, pruning, mowing) is done to an oak tree from April 15th through July 15th. For more information, click on Oak Wilt or watch this video Oak Wilt Video. You can also…

We have some great prizes once again for our scholarship raffle. Tickets cost $10 each and ticket sales will be limited to 300 tickets, so get your tickets before they’re gone! The drawing will be August 25, 2024 at 6PM at the KRO BAR & GRILL in Brule, Wisconsin. You don’t need to be present…

Dick’s Foam Hex Spinner Mike Zicus, BRSC Board Member – Bemidji, MN I was introduced to this fly years ago when Dick Berge showed us how to tie it and some of his other Hexagenia patterns at a Club board meeting. It was a few years before I tried to reproduce it from memory. As…

The proposed federal budget eliminates The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative which is intended to accelerate efforts to protect and restore the largest system of fresh surface water in the world – the Great Lakes. For more information about the initiative, click on GLRI.

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.

The aging and perched culvert under Wisconsin State Highway 27 will be replaced. The project is being designed by the Wisconsin DOT with the Wisconsin DNR and Trout Unlimited providing design review. Designs are expected to be completed in 2025 with construction occurring in summer 2026. The replacement will allow greater fish passage and also…

Proposed legislation (HR 8167) introduced by Georgia congressman Andrew Clyde (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8167?r=4&s=1) would eliminate Pittman Robertson funding. The Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act, enacted in 1937 is now known as the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and provides funding for states and territories to support wildlife restoration, conservation, and hunter education and safety programs. The proposed…