S_outheastern Minnesota’s Trout Run is a classic Driftless Region spring creek, filled with thousands of brown trout per mile. Public access is plentiful._ We were surrounded by bugs and rises in the most intense hatch I had ever seen. It seemed like every trout in the stream was feeding aggressively. It had to be a famous event and location, like the Green Drake hatch on Idaho’s Henrys Fork or the evening caddis explosion on Montana’s Missouri, right? Wrong. I was in a state better known for...
