Coulee Region Trout Unlimited

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

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

These are my 5 hatches for the Driftless Area - Grannom caddis, BWO mayfly, crane flies, Hydropsyche caddis, and winter midges and stones.

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