Learning Opportunities

Casting / Tune Up

Understand how fly lines work. Investigate different rod types. Put all the skills together with your casting style. We will practice on land and water.

Intensive Entomology & Fishing

Bugs we mimic are always changing!

Stream side turning over rocks, identify bugs, and translating them to the flies in our boxes. Understand better what fish eat.

Hopportunity & Terrestrials

Learn how fall GrassHopper fishing, terrestrials. Fall Hopper fishing is a visual delight as the big browns slam these flies! Casting near the shore grasses and fast, hard takes.

Adaptive Fly Fishing - as we get older we need to adapt!

Aging, ability, skill, no matter the reason Shenanigans offers clinics on adaptive fishing Strategies. Alternative ways to put waders & boots on, tie knots, organize flies and walk/ wade the streams. In safe ways.

Learn a New Fly | CraneFlies & Pink Squirrel (designed for the driftless), and more.

A local legend John Bethke invented the Pink Squirrel. One of the most effective nymphs in the Driftless area. The area is also home to multiple species of Crane Flies. Learn how to fish these fun flies!

Write your text here...Casting / Tune Up

Walk N Wade the Driftless Bonus - Learn the area for future DIY

Requirements: Be able to cast well enough to get the fly where you intend and fish somewhat independently. I will be dividing my time between the number of participants that sign up for each event.

Confused on Gear? - Let's sort it out. Let's figure out what you have.

Personal Shopper help available, we can order gear and have it ready for pick up at the Fly Shops. Or have it sent to your home after learning what you need after fishing in the Driftless.

Learn different Rods / Gear Tune Up / Personal Shopper

Rods - what actions they possess.

Learn how different rods cast differently, Rods will be supplied if you don't have your own. Bamboo, Glass and different actions of Graphite. Try them, cast them, by experience you will be improving your cast. We will learn them AND fish them!

Mouse / Fish for Big Browns

Big Browns, Mice flies and Evening fishing. Put it all together and we call that Mousing!

Should be able to cast 30 feet and walk in the dark (with a light) casting in the darkness across the streams. We typically are standing on shore!