My best 5 went over 47lbs

[fishinwrench]

Not sure if I can buy into that theory.

There's a lot of creeks and rivers chock full of shad between there and Nebraska.  😂 

[FishnDave]

Those are REALLY nice fish, @Smalliebigs!  👍 👍

[Smalliebigs]

20 minutes ago, FishnDave said:

Iowa stocks a bunch...into Big Creek Lake, Saylorville Lake and Red Rock Lake (on the Des Moines River...tributary to the Mississippi, dumps in near the Iowa/Missouri border).   And Lake MacBride and Coralville Reservoir on the Iowa River near Iowa City....The Iowa River dumps into the Cedar River and then the Mississippi River.

They also stock Lake Rathbun, which empties into the Chariton River, which runs down by Kirksville and eventually into the Missouri River.

Are you familiar with these dam failures up there???

[Smalliebigs]

19 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Not sure if I can buy into that theory.

There's a lot of creeks and rivers chock full of shad between there and Nebraska.  😂 

Agreed 

[Ham]

Super Day on the water. Those are some Great fish. 

[Smalliebigs]

2 hours ago, Ham said:

Super Day on the water. Those are some Great fish. 

Thanks Ham….. right place right time lol you know the deal

[FishnDave]

15 hours ago, Smalliebigs said:

Are you familiar with these dam failures up there???

The dams haven't failed, but these Hybrid Striped Bass are really good at getting downstream past/through the dam outlet structures.

Big Creek Lake has a "spill-over" dam.  The IDNR recognized many of the Hybrid Striped Bass, muskies, and walleyes were escaping the lake into Saylorville Lake, a reservoir on the Des Moines River.  They installed spaced-apart concrete barriers at the top of the dam with chip readers on them.  And they chipped a bunch of stocked fish, so they could get a handle on just how many fish were escaping, and where they ended up after they escaped.  They also installed horizontal bars at the top of  the dam, spaced so small fish & debris could pass through, but bigger fish would be retained in the lake.  That has made a big difference.

You know there are 2 types of Hybrid Striped Bass: Sunshine Bass and Palmetto Bass, depending on whether white bass males or females were used to create the hybrid.  I think the Sunshine Bass is  the most commonly used for stockings in Iowa and other states.  Studies have shown that during high water events, one strain (Sunshine Bass) tends to swim downstream through dams, etc., disappearing from the lakes and reservoirs they were stocked in.  The Palmetto strain tends to swim upstream during these high-water events, and then return back to the lake when the flows subside.  So...the Palmetto seem to stay in the system they were stocked in better, so Iowa is continuing with studies to compare/contrast the 2 HSB strains in Iowa waters.   

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

They've been running up the river's in IL like the Kaskaskia for years.  Coming out of the Mississippi.

[Ham]

49 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

They've been running up the river's in IL like the Kaskaskia for years.  Coming out of the Mississippi.

I need to fish the Kaskaskia

[snagged in outlet 3]

37 minutes ago, Ham said:

I need to fish the Kaskaskia

When it's on it's ON!