Coulee Region Trout Unlimited

The Driftless Area covers about 24,000 square miles (over 15 million acres) and goes by a host of names - the Coulee Region, bluff lands or bluff country, the Paleozoic plateau, or a host of other names. The Driftless Area occurs because Lake Superior's depth along with the highlands between the Driftless Area and Lake Superior helped divert glaciers around this area. Although often treated as a rather homogeneous area, it is much more diverse than we often recognize.

The greatest density of spring creeks in the World in a unique cultural and geologic setting - what's not to love?

I can't be the only person that has this wish that I could go back to see what the world looked like before our human population boomed.

The Scientific Fly Angler blog will be rolling out, in part, on the Coulee Region TU website. Please share these posts widely!

Relative to the vegetation of the Driftless, establishing a clear picture of what the streams and their riparian zone were like is tougher.

A post on the history and flies of the Wolf River got me to thinking about the Driftless. As you see, the area and the trout fishing we maybe take for granted has not always been what it is now. In fact, it really was not that long ago that Driftless fisheries were mostly stocked and not self-sustaining like they are now. Today, over much of the Driftless Area, if it is a blue line on a map, it holds trout. It has not always been that way, a fact we should celebrate but also