FishnDave

Lemons. Lemonade. Sometimes cities stock park ponds with them intentionally. Ornamental ponds.

@Ham And look at you! 74! Only 26 left to reach your goal...home-stretch!

@Johnsfolly GO! GO! GO! GO! 🤘

Finding public access to streams is a big issue, IMO. I can understand why landowners wouldn't want the liability of letting folks fish on their property. What if the MDC / DNR used some of their funds each year to purchase more access? Takes the liability away from the landowner, and the trashy eyesore it may become will not be the (former) landowner's problem anymore. Or, as someone else mentioned, change river and stream laws with the stroke of a pen without spending a dollar. Public access between high water/top of bank on all MO streams that typically have year-round flow.

Yes! Rock Bass. 😁👍

I think its a juvenile Northern Watersnake or Common Water Snake?

I hoped to add 5 species to the 2021 list… I ended up adding 8…. So, yeah! I’m very pleased with this trip. 😊

more pics from Iowa:

More from Iowa.

Visited Iowa. Fished a good bit.

(FND42) Brook Trout (Char brookie) Some Iowa fish.

(FND41) Brown Trout (Trutta peanutbutta) Some Iowa fish.

(FND40) Rock Bass (Pleasestopwith thegoggleeye) Some Iowa specimens:

(FND39) Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieu) Caught some in Iowa.

(FND38) Common Shiner (Shiny nontrare) Caught in Iowa. The left two were sporting a little spawning coloration.

(FND37) Hornyhead Chub (Chubbychecker redtemple)

(FND36) Carmine Shiner I wasn’t sure what this was… I wasn’t fishing for micros, but lucked into one. Consulting with @Ham and @Johnsfolly, the consensus settled on Carmine Shiner.

(FND35) Pumpkinseed Sunfish. (Gourdicus neonfish) Caught in Iowa.

Nice!! I do need to catch some of those! 👍

Modify the regs. You kill it, you keep it and eat it. All of it. Including at tournaments. Group meals for tournament members, their families, and spectators. No culling. Or, if you don't want to eat it... you must clean it, prepare it, vacuum package it and deliver it for use by homeless shelters and food banks. No waste. I wonder if there would still be guys interested in the sport if you put them on a boat on a pond and made them troll around and shoot underwater targets instead of fish?

I caught the Skipjack Tuna. Our friends that live on Maui cut it up in their back yard for us. Very mild, very dark red meat...almost purple.

I usually catch stuff...but I'm certainly no pro at it. So, that's my disclaimer. A beadhead Pink Squirrel nymph is very popular in Iowa's Driftless area. Its a great place to catch trout with the flies YOU want to use. Try anything from a #32 midge to a 5/0 musky T-Bone fly. Personally, I don't like messing with the tiny flies, so #10 or #8 Woolly Buggers and microjigs have caught a lot of trout for me. Take some brown stuff, and some flashy gold stuff. Sowbug and scud imitations will catch you fish just fine. Some foam hopper and beetle patterns will get you fish looking up. Good luck, I look forward to your pictures! Wisconsin seems to have more larger trout than Iowa (especially browns), based on pictures I've seen over the years.

I haven't been to the WI side of the Driftless either. I'm planning to be on the Iowa side early next week. I've stayed in Decorah, and also Fayette, Waukon, Dorchester, as well as a couple towns near some outlier trout streams that may not be worth your time. Lots of streams, best place to get information is the Iowa DNR website. https://www.iowadnr.gov/Fishing/Trout-Fishing Below the picture in the upper right are two links...one gives a list of all the streams, one shows them on a map. you can dig further by clicking more links in the list or streams on the map.

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