anyone doing any fishing any where

[jwn]

I haven't been able to do much since the Mississippi was shut down and I used all my vacation in the spring. They just opened the ramps back up yesterday on the river so I'll probeley try to find some river crappies this weekend.

[Crappiepalooza]

Whew! Quiet in here! I don't think Iowans fish -- except in Minnesota.

I caught 1 crappie so far this year, and that was by accident -- a 7 incher. I've been concentrating instead on Bluegill and catfish, some bass. Found a great bluegill hole at Lake Iowa with fish consistently in the 9-10" range. Also good catfish, if a tad scarce. But big, most in the 20-24" range. Nice redear too, up to 11".

Lake Darling has been a disappointment so far this year. Last year, I'd catch a couple dozen cats per outting with most in the 15"+ range. This year, not so much. Did pull in a personal record 24" musta-been-10-lbs or more channel cat that looked like prehistoric mutant from the deep (I didn't have a scale with me, so this is a weight estimate). Big@zz fish, whatever it weighed.

Anyway, that's 08 so far. With gas prices the way they are, I haven't traveled much and tend to stay pretty close to home.

[jwn]

Ya it's real slow in here. I've only made it out crappie fishing 1 time so far since the river opened back up and got skunked. I did do a float trip down the Iowa which wasn't much better 1 sm 1 stripper. I did here of some people starting to catch a few crappie on the river, will try to get out this week.

[dallasrogers]

Am coming to cedar rapids to work in a few weeks.Anyone ever fish the cedar river close to there?

[jwn]

Never fished the ceder up there, but there are 2 good lake not far from CR. Lake Mcbride and Coralville Res. I've seen a few post about Mcbride where people were catching some crappie. The res is probaley still way high but it has some big crappie in it.

[prchjerker]

We've been hammering the walleyes at Rathbun.With all the high water it made alot harder fishing the brush for crappies.Did get a three man limit of eyes out of the Mississippi River yesterday.

[jwn]

PJ what pool were you fishing and how were you fishing, trolling the wingdams? I went crappie fishing on some backwaters to a brush pile I sunk last year only got 1 small one. Today I went to a farm pond that produced well in the spring now theres moss 10 yrds out all around it and agian onjly managed 1. I think I'll give into my boys request to go catfishing this weekend surley I can manage more then one of them I hope.

[prchjerker]

jwn
We were on pool 14.Went back over Sunday 8/10.The bite was slower, but the quality was better.Most came pitching jigs.Did catch a few trolling but not many.Will probably continue to slow down until the water cools off this fall, then it will pick up again.PJ

[rathbuncrappier]

went to rathbun 8-9 and caught 2@16,2@15 and 3@13 with some even smaller

[jwn]

Wow if thats crappie measurements thats great, how deep were you fishing?