March 2026

Meeting will be held online at 6:00 PM on March 23rd.

We need some additional help at our Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo booth, March 13th  – 15th! If you can help anytime during the Expo, please contact the Club’s Financial Secretary, Dean Wellman at pwellman@cheqnet.com. For more information about the Expo, click on Expo.

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.…

Now is the time to renew your annual Brule River Sportsmen Club membership! If you wish, you can use our online store to renew your membership, make donations, and purchase any merchandise. Just click on Club Store. The online store allows you to pay online via PayPal or to print off a form and renew by…

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…