Greg, You hit the nail on the head on altE for Upper Miss refuge! To give the feds more power to take away the rights of any of us to use the refuge is wrong and illegal. They have miss managed the refuge for 30 years according to their own documents and public comments. They have pitted the different users of, the refuge against each other now!These are states rights to regulate fish,trap,regs to restrict entrance,speed limits and is more duplication and waaste of refuge dollars. I hope that more of those who use the refuge will write to the USFW service,state DNR,state and congressional leaders. We have until 1March to do so! Thank you for the time and effort you have put forth. Haasfish

Thank you for sharing how you feel!I asked the ? because I knew you all were advocates of the sport! Tourn fishing,guiding and over harvest by some has put some of our Ia. fisheries in trouble? This is what forums are about-I repect your position and only ask the ? Tight lines forever!

What`s wrong with a Hi-Fin teaser-tail,Hawgbuster or Creeper. Us old timers love those top water baits-love the strike!

Joe i like the way you fish! I smelled something fishy about this when I saw it!Talked to all parties on this and got different answers.Reg change opens up a can of worms& may cost fishery more than it helps

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You can bring up the rule changes through the Ia dnr web siteFishing regs.

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Thank you Joe K for enlighting these fine fishermen!

I guess most farmers own,lease or rent from other OWNERS so I thought it was some what different. Public waters the fish are owned by all of us.Thats why some of us fight so hard to protect or fishing and hunting. I just asked ? was using the fishery for money(Guides,tourn pros)a ethical use of the fishery?

BrainK He was referring to bump and dump! This just measuring fish and then immediately releasing fish(Which some Ia BASS fed tourn did for a while-some may stiil do?)Counting inchesand coverting to weights to decide a winner!

This a new adm rule IA 2005 fishing regs! You might want to look at them before fish this year?

Having been on both sides-is it ethical to use resources foryour monetary gain? What excludes one group from not being as good to resource as others. Wisc is studying this same problem in their law. Minn has looked away at times to the issue at certain events. What about the guy that bank fishes,uses new hi-tech uro nets?

Not being against or toally in favor of new reg my ? is returning a fish in your possesion a vilolation ? Why exempt permitted(state permits some tourn)bass tourn? My livewell as good as theirs. Catfish,crappie,walleye,pike&muskie tourn that different?

launch downtown Muscatine was open Monday will ice up with cold temps next three days possible. Sauger bite just so-so water dirty