43 pound Flathead caught on MacBride in IA

  • armchairdeity
    Phoenix, AZ, formerly from the NW 'Burbs, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Posts: 1620
    April 18, 2011 at 3:33 pm #958324

    Eh, I caught one of those. No big deal.

    Kidding… of course anything over 3# gets my blood racing… congrats to whomever caught it.

    Steven Krapfl
    Springville, Iowa
    Posts: 1728
    April 18, 2011 at 3:49 pm #958329

    huh, i’ve only caught little flatheads on that lake trolling cranks. nice fish! i did catch a musky out there this weekend. it was 26. inches, not pounds. but last year i caught another musky out there about the same size. you do the math, i’ve caught 52 inches of musky. not many people can say that, especially in Iowa. I think 2 26″ fish weigh the same as one 52″ fish. would you guys agree??

    mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 7727
    April 18, 2011 at 6:48 pm #958405

    Sounds like your math is right Steve, adds up too me.

    dr._flathead
    Posts: 220
    April 19, 2011 at 12:04 pm #958573

    Must have been snagged…..They dont feed this time of year!

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    April 19, 2011 at 12:34 pm #958590

    Although it’s warmer in IA….could be right. Aren’t they allowed to keep snagged fish there?

    hanson
    Posts: 728
    April 19, 2011 at 1:50 pm #958614

    I’m just wondering if that crappie made it through the night in the tank.

    mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 7727
    April 19, 2011 at 2:41 pm #958630

    Ya we can BrianK, in some areas of higher contrations on the Cedar, Des moine and Iowa rivers you can’t snag within 300 yrds of certain dams. The reasoning is because of the high concentrations of channels and flatheads that migrate up river and are stopped below these dams. On a diffrent note The good thing is you can’t handfish anywhere in Iowa, just guessing but maybe its because some of those handfishermen are really good at it, No not really, I wish they’d let guys handfish.

    I was reading the results of the DNR’s tissue samples from various lakes and rivers In Iowa and its good news. 7 lakes there is a warning of slightly elevated mercury levels and 5 inland rivers. Those warnings are for one meal a week for gamefish excluding catfish. The tissue samples evidently from catfish are cleaner for them then the walleyes, smallmouths and Northern pike tested, that was a surprise to me, I thought catfish would be in there but they weren’t. Some of those rivers are in N.E. Iowa the Turkey and Volga where I smallmouth fish. I was surprised in the results of those two rivers because thier springfed and run cold and clear, the upper reaches on both are stocked trout water. Chloridane levels are all within standards except for 2 small impoundments because they stopped its usage 20 years ago and still the amounts are so small you can still eat one meal a week. The DNR here has adopted a safer scale of numbers and test for smaller amounts in all chemicals that are below federal levels, thats good to know, thier even more restrictive then federal levels the way I read it. http://www.Iadnr.com

    herb
    6ft under
    Posts: 3242
    April 19, 2011 at 3:06 pm #958657

    They do here.

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