In the fading light of a peaceful afternoon’s fishing, Captain Roger LaPenter, with poling staff in hand, watches the ‘flats’ for signs of feeding fish.
Dressed in his customary ‘guide gear’ – shorts, short-sleeve flats-shirt, baseball cap and sporting his signature, flowing white fu-goatee, he scans the water looking every bit the part of the consummate flats fishing guide. And this is very true. However, it is NOT where most would believe: that being off Florida or elsewhere in the warm, sapphire blue waters of the Caribbean.
The waters on which Capt LaPenter plies the majority of his days-on-the-water, are those in the northern water world of upper Wisconsin; specifically the water flats of Chequamegon Bay, Lake Michigan, out of Ashland, Wisconsin.
Capt LaPenter, through his guide business Anglers All Wisconsin does guide in many parts of the world, his primary ‘business’ is conducted in the Chequamegon Bay ‘office park’. If you’re interested in fishing in his country, then contact him. You will have a memorable experience, even if the fish are less than cooperative.


