Places to stay in Iowa.

Here is a list of some places to stay around some great trout fishing in Iowa.

Old Hospital Lodge
www.oldhospitallodge.com
563-546-7847

Highlandville General Store and Campground...Bear Creek Cabins
www.bearcreekcabinsia.com
563-546-7722

Both of the above places are located in Highlandvill,IA right on the South Bear Creek and close to numerous other public fishing areas. The General Store also has a good selection of camping type food and the best part cold beer!

You can also do a google search of the area you are looking to stay and find other places to crash after a long day of fishing.

Iowa trout fishing

Brown on the South Bear

Brown on the North Bear.

Fat Rainbow from the North Bear Creek.

Waterloo Creek

Public access point.

View from our campsite.

Brown on Waterloo Creek.

End of the day refreshments!

I was able to head over to Iowa for a few days and check out the trout streams. Mostly a scouting trip for upcoming guide trips but we did manage to get some fishing in. For those of you that don't know Iowa has a year round trout season and really isn't that far of a drive from the Madison or Chicago area.
 Iowa has 34 streams now that have naturally reproducing populations of browns and brookies. They also stock a healthy number of rainbows. The creeks I was able to check out all looked to be in great shape and the fish were more than williing to take flies. The weather was in the 70's and bluebird skies so fishing was a little slower than normal. I will put up another post of places to stay around where we fished.

Fish Kill in WI

I have been away for a few days but sa wthis and wanted to spread the news. Looks like some very nice browns were killed during this fish kill.




http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/environment/article_943c4134-cdd3-11df-bafa-001cc4c03286.html

Wi RIver smallies.

The water levels on the Lower WI River finally cooperated enough to get out and do a guide trip. The Praire du Sac dam read 7,000cfs but the river seemed lower than that. The smallies hit everything as long as it was white! Small pods of fish were crushing shad but the takes with the flies were subtle.

Larry with a nice smallie. This fish was relesed unharmed.

Bryan with another smallie.

Bryan's suprise Bowfin!

 We even landed a suprise bowfin!

Mousing King!

Mr. Brown

Nice mousing fish!

The catch of the night for the chub king!

Kurt sent me some photos of a recent mousing trip to southwestern WI. The fish were responsive to the mouse and he even landed a suprise fish! I think we might call him the chub king now!!

Norther WI Smallmouth Trip

Hey everyone. I am trying to put together a trip for smallies up in northern WI. Checkout the Simms trailor for what the fishing is like.

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.catchmagazine.net%2F&h=52974

Here is a link to catch magazine.....flip thru the pages to find the Simms trailor.

Black River

A view of what we walked th boat thru.

Walking the boat thru the boulders.

My biggest of the trip.

Double!

Dan with his first smallis on a fly rod.

Todd with a nice smallie

Todd and myself had the opportunity to go to the Black River on Monday and Tuesday. A friend of the shop Dan has a cabin right on the river so we could get to fishing right away. It turned out to be a great float on Monday, we landed lots of fish, nothing huge Todd even got a small muskie. Tuesday was a little bit of a circus dragging a driftboat thru some very shallow rapids. But the fish we bigger. Thanks Dan for the cabin and I would love to fish it again......for MUSKIE!!