2022 Flyfishing Pics

[FishnDave]

....Brown Trout:

Rainbow Trout:

 

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Millions of these Hackberry Emperor butterflies along the streams.

 

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[BilletHead]

       Pretty neat @FishnDave. We really enjoyed our driftless trip last year. Might do it again someday.  Never found any rainbows but a ton of browns. 

[Ham]

I loved the Iowa fish. Jealous of the Common Shiners and Pumpkinseed. We will see what the next week brings for me. 

[FishnDave]

11 hours ago, Ham said:

I loved the Iowa fish. Jealous of the Common Shiners and Pumpkinseed. We will see what the next week brings for me. 

Good luck on your trip, @Ham !

14 hours ago, BilletHead said:

       Pretty neat @FishnDave. We really enjoyed our driftless trip last year. Might do it again someday.  Never found any rainbows but a ton of browns. 

Lots of streams to fish there, for sure.  There are many I still haven't visited.  Most are small enough that you don't wade them, although fishing from shore is often difficult due to the tall weeds and prevalence of invasive Wild Parsnip everywhere.  That is nasty stuff...do NOT touch it.  Wear long pants, socks and long-sleeve shirts.

What you catch really depends on which streams you go to.  There are streams with naturally-reproducing browns, and some that are stocked with fingerlings as "put-and-grow".  The IDNR doesn't stock adult brown trout anywhere...so the ones you catch are generally stream-raised, or stream-born.  Perfect fins, great colors.

For Brook Trout (which we tried for, but didn't catch any this trip), some streams have native populations, some are stocked from native Iowa populations.

For Rainbows...they are generally all stocked, although some have certainly managed to breed in the streams.  Its fun to  catch some with perfect fins, and in places where they've never been stocked (stream-born or migrants from other streams).

[Ryan Miloshewski]

Awesome pics. You know what streams you hit? I really like the ones up by Coon Valley. Going back to the Driftless end of July again this year. Really is an awesome place. And you are not wrong about the Cow Parsnip. I wore long sleeve everything. Luckily, it's cool enough up there to not overheat.

[FishnDave]

1 hour ago, Ryan Miloshewski said:

Awesome pics. You know what streams you hit? I really like the ones up by Coon Valley. Going back to the Driftless end of July again this year. Really is an awesome place. And you are not wrong about the Cow Parsnip. I wore long sleeve everything. Luckily, it's cool enough up there to not overheat.

We kept in Iowa.  For trout on this trip, we hit Casey Springs, Bohemian Creek, Grannis, South Canoe Creek...might've been one more spot we tried that I'm forgetting...  Although it isn't a trout stream, I did catch a rainbow trout on the Volga River. And we fished the Turkey River as well (not for trout).  We caught fish everywhere...but most of these trout streams weren't that great.  There are much better ones, we just didn't get to them in the limited time we had.

[FishnDave]

Channel Catfish:

2 pics of the same White Bass...interesting how the light can make the stripes look darker.

Common Carp:

3 Grass Carp.  This puts me at my goal of 200 lifetime fly rod grass carp! :

30.5" Longnose Gar...my biggest so far...but they get much bigger!  This one had pretty spots on its head: