Every spring, Iowa Game and Fish magazine publishes their ‘fishing calandar’ where they give best-bets for each month of the coming year. I’ve pretty much worked into my own fishing calandar and am curious what other’s look like. Mine is as follows:
January
Crappies & Gills through the ice
___Lake MacBride
___Palo Lake (Pleasant Creek)
___Mississippi River
February
Crappies & Gills through the ice
___Lake MacBride
___Palo Lake (Pleasant Creek)
___Mississippi River
March
Last gasp ice fishing
Ice-out pike/walleyes
___Wapsipinicon River
___Mississippi River
Ice-out catfish (only done this once, but would again)
___Coralville Resevoir
April
Prespawn Walleyes, Ice out crappies
___Coralville dam
___Mississippi river
___Clear Lake
___Lake MacBride
May
Crappie spawn
___Coralville Res
___Lake MacBride
Walleyes
___Clear Lake
___Mississippi River
June
Crappies
___Lake MacBride
___Coralville Res
Gills
___Palo Lake
___Cedar River
___Mississippi River
Bass
___Palo
___MacBride
___Interior Rivers (Cedar/Maquoketa/Wapsi smallies)
July/August
Catfish
___Coralville Res
___Wapsipinicon River
___Cedar River
Bass
___Cedar/Maq/Wapsi smallies
___Palo largemouths
Northerns
___Mississippi River
September/October/November
Fishing gets tough, pray for ice & pheasant hunt
December
Finish deer season
Gills
___Farm ponds
___Small lakes (Meyer in Winnesheik, George Wyth, etc)
Whew! That took long enough… seemed so simple when I started. The underscores are just there to cause an indent (leading spaces were ignored).