Minnesota's tag as the "Land of 10,000 lakes" carries a wide reputation and helps advance our state as a prime fishing destination. The southeastern corner of Minnesota is not lake country, but bluffland and hardwood forest land. This portion of our state is perhaps best known world-wide for Rochester's Mayo Clinic, and perhaps least known for its outstanding cold water fishery.
Driving east from "Medical Center, USA" through the fertile farmland of southern Minnesota, the landscape does not conjure up the images of trophy trout and the self-sustaining trout streams that do exist in this rural corner of our state.
But as one arrives into Lewiston, along U.S. Highway 14, roughly 30 minutes from Rochester, the avid trouter is literally surrounded by trout fishing opportunities. Within a twenty mile radius of Lewiston, there are fifty (50) trout streams from which to choose.
I can leave my Lewiston home and within five minutes be uncasing my flyrod at streamside - whether I leave home to the north, or go south, or east.
These limestone trout streams offer a wide variety of fishing situations with mostly brown trout, but a few rainbow and brook trout as well.
I can fish remote wooded valleys between dolomite cliffs that range from 300-500 feet high.
I can fish canoe sized rivers.
I can fish streams with cribs and other improvements.
I can fish while on a three to five mile hiking foray.
I can fish pastured streams which make for easy hiking and excellent flyfishing.
I can fish wooded streams.
I can fish small brook trout streams.
I can choose from over 600 miles of trout streams. Home
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