May 2026

Meeting will be on May 25th at 6:00 PM at the Kro Bar in Brule.

The Club’s first habitat work day will May 16th. We will assist DNR Fisheries and the Brule River State Forest with tree planting along the Little Brule. We will meet at Dennis Road at 9 AM.

The Olive Dean Wellman, BRSC Financial Secretary – Brule, WI Experience is the process of gaining knowledge or skill by doing, seeing, or feeling things.  An art that arises within a person.  The Olive epitomizes “experience.”  Ken Lundberg wrote in his 2020 April “Brule River Modified Brown Wooly Bugger” Fly of the Month, “I prefer…

Best Squirmy Wormy Yet Dean Wellman, BRSC Financial Secretary – Brule, WI Midges are an important part of the food web in many streams, including the Brule. The San Juan worm, designed to imitate Chironomus midge larvae (blood worms), had a controversial beginning. Anglers would often shuffle their feet in a stream, dislodging the larvae…

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.  

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.…