This may be a dumb question to you guys but….

What is pool 2, pool 9, pool 10 ect ect. like is that the accual name of the backwater area in a map???

Each Pool is numbered for the Dam that holds it. Pool #4 is the Alma Dam on up to the Red Wing Dam.
The only Dumb question is the one not asked…JIM

Hey Ben,

When ever you make a post scroll down to the bottom of the page and you’ll see all of the pools and where they are located. It looks like this…

No question is a dumb question !!

Mississippi River Pool Locations
Pool # Starting Point Ending Point
Pool 2 St. Anthony Falls, MN Hastings, MN
Pool 3 Hastings, MN Red Wing, MN
Pool 4 Red Wing, MN Alma, WI
Pool 5 Alma, WI Minnesota City, MN
Pool 5A Minnesota City, MN Winona, MN
Pool 6 Winona, MN Trempealeau, WI
Pool 7 Trempealeau, WI Dresbach, MN
Pool 8 Dresbach, MN Genoa, WI
Pool 9 Genoa, WI Lynxville, WI
Pool 10 Lynxville, WI Guttenberg, IA
Pool 11 Guttenberg, IA Dubuque, IA
Pool 12 Dubuque, IA Bellevue, IA
Pool 13 Bellevue, IA Fulton, IL
Pool 14 Fulton, IL Pleasant Valley, IA
Pool 15 Pleasant Valley, IA Rock Island, IL
Pool 16 Rock Island, IL Muscatine, IA
Pool 17 Muscatine, IA New Boston, IL
Pool 18 New Boston, IL Gladstone, IL
Pool 19 Gladstone, IL Keokuk, IA
Pool 20 Keokuk, IA Canton, MO

The way I look at it is that there is ”never” a dumb. question. To me the only dumb thing is not asking a question when you want to learn something. We are all at different levels in our fishing life so there is never a person who will ever know it all so by asking questions we all learn. And one of the great things about asking a question is that when the answer is given there will be ”many” people who learned something from that question being asked and answered. So keep asking questions and we all keep learning.
Thanks, Bill