I get so homesick for Wisconsin this time of year +New Sconnie website

[fishnfla]

No place like wisconsin in the Fall. After I graduated from school, and before I got certified, my graduation present to myself was a 3 month sabbatical from sept thru christmas. Spent nearly everyday hunting or fishing or traveling the backroads of Northern Wisconsin....truly a special area. Mrs fish and I own some retirement property way up in nowhere'sville, if that day ever comes, I'll be back at it. My will stipulates that my ashes are spread into the waters of the Pine River in Forest county near Hwy55.

So my high school buddy and some friends from down Madtown way have started on new website, almost like home awy from there

WisconsinNative.com, check it out

[HereSince1628]

1. When cheese curds aren't available, eat Colby for your homesickness

You could also treat yourself to a Milwaukee Survival Kit for lunch...Bratwurst with Wisconsin Mustard, Pinah's pretzel's, and a bottle or three of Miller.

[fishnfla]

2. yeah and fish fries on Friday, booyah, door county cherry bounce

butter burgers, draft beers, and bartenders who know how to make a whiskey old fashioned. Every third round on the house. Strangers who talk to you nice, like they know you.

True story: every time the Badgers play a bowl game down here, we gather up family and friends and hit the UW tailgate party. Cheeseheads from all over hell's half acre, beer, brats, the UW band. But it never ceases to amaze our children and guests, how damnned friendly folks from wisconsin are. Invariably someone will ask me: 'is everyone from Wisconsin so nice?'

[HereSince1628]

3. I gotta say

Loving this state has absolutely nothing to do with partying or being a fan of college or professional sport for me.
I'm proud to be here. Proud of the general quality of the people around me.

Special things?

A 20 mile view of Fall colors along the Kettle Moraine as seen from the pinnacle of the Cathedral at Holy Hill,
a sky vibrating with trumpeting from a dozen kettles of soaring sand-hill cranes,
an absolutely silent February morning with miles of Hoar Frost covered Drumlins set against a cobalt blue sky,
green fields of winter wheat in a brown March landscape,
the cannon-like shock of ice being thrown up along a pressure ridge,
a view of the Milky-Way so bright you could read by it,
the smell of moldering maple leaves mixed with the taste of morels,
the quiet hope of people in their 70's who plant new orchards, and vote to fund schools,

Those are Wisconsin things that tug at my heart.

[sybylla]

4. Forest county is beautiful...

That's where we hunt: bear around Argonne and Laona, deer north of Argonne about 15 miles.

If we have nice weather for photography, I'll send you some photos after Thanksgiving.

[fishnfla]

5. THANK YOU

I know the area quite well, we used to have a place in Crandon, and used to hunt North that way as well, near the popple river.

My buddy and I for our high school grad trip floated the pine for 4 days, wish we would've had a camera then

[Viking12]

6. If it's any consolation, the fishing has been kinda lousy.

I fished the Wolf River near Fremont for 5 hours this morning and not a walleye -- plenty of white bass, an occasional crappie, even a sturgeon, but no walleyes.

[fishnfla]

7. ain't nothing wrong with that

all that time hunting and fishing, i spent hunting and fishing, more to it that shooting and catching. I bet it was pretty out there.

How big sturgeon?

[Viking12]

8. You're right there. It's more the time spent outdoors than the catching.

Most of the leaves have dropped so it's not as pretty as, say, two weeks ago. But still not bad :)

We only got a peek at it before we cut the line but I'd say 3'+ easy.