Whoa!

[ThunderStick]

Me and the family are headed up to the great woods of northern WI (Vilas county) in a couple weeks. In conjunction with that trip, we've been doing overnight backpack trips in the Porcupine Mtns the last few years. This year we're staying in a cabin on Mirror lake, which is supposedly loaded with smallies. The thing I just found out is it also has a nice population of splake. My first thought was, what the hell is a splake? Thanks to our friend Google, I learned it is a hybrid of two fish species resulting from the crossing of a male brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) and a female lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). Woo hoo, talk about a bonus! Splake shorelunch sure sounds good to me

[Special Ed]

Splake are gorgeous fish, definitely get some good pictures when you catch some!

[Ken G]

I need to do some traveling. This hanging around and fishing in Illinois thing is getting old.

Heading to Devil's Lake WI in July. Might break down and get a license. The bass were feeding in the shallows off the beach when I was there in May. Had wished I brought my fly rod.

You would think they could have come up with another word other than "splake". Sounds like one of those Polish dishes everyone is afraid to eat...

[ThunderStick]

When I told my kids about splake, my daughter accused me of making the word up.