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If you don’t mind walking a couple miles around Palo I can put you on a walleye ( ugg, did I really say that )..
Anyway, The water is stuid low and if the water is deeper than your waist you shoundn’t have any trouble. Its like fish in a barrel and I am not kidding in the least. I suspect that if we do not get rain we will have a massive kill this winter.

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I appreciate the offer!
Literally every one of my fishing poles and my fishing gear is already stashed away at my parent’s house since the second week of August after our Canada trip.

Thanks for the well wishes everyone!

What part of the Cedar? We’re lucky to have 3-4 of water anywhere here!

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It’s scary Dan. I would look for good flow areas with a little bit of depth and rocks, might find something.

Jw how did things go up there?

Riverfisher stopped by Wyth last night at the boat ramp and swore the water was flowing upstream, crazy.

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Went great up in Canada as usual! Always a great trip, caught plenty of fish. The walleye were great but the pike fishing was terrible because of the river/lake conditions.

Just got back from our Canada trip Sunday. Did I miss any hot fishing on the Cedar while I was gone?

I see the river went down some more.

Don’t do it. And don’t say I didn’t tell ya.

Apple is over priced, over hyped, and fan-boy driven. It’s that simple.
You cannot buy an Apple product (except perhaps used) and NOT get riped off.

I’ve written the Cedar off for the moment. Water is so low it’s hard to look at it.
I’m leaving for a fly-in trip to Canada this weekend so I may not fish again after that… because everything else is so awful in comparison.

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My puter only loads posts till about June 1.
I live out in the boonies and my internet provider
is Fred Flinstone so it could just be on my end.

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I’m not sure if the thread is full, I’m just glad to see Fred is running a successful business after being type-cast in Hollywood all of these years.

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Fishing the ‘Croix below Beanies yesterday. Tuna boat guys going by, close, nose up, about a 3′ wake that I had to head into to keep from taking on water. THEN here comes these two young “gents” on their hot jet skis chasing and jumping wakes within 50’ of me. Kinda makes me wish for Labor Day. Okay, I’m done now, thanks jerr

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Have any whippersnappers walking on your lawn?

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sorry, guys, that second picture is of the illinois state record walleye caught this spring.

it was caught by Jim Zimmerman of Beloit, Wis., on the Pecatonica River, about 20 miles south of the state line and weighed 15.08 pounds, was 31.5 inches long with a girth of 20-3/8 inches.

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Thank you!

News article about it:

http://triblocal.com/new-lenox/community/stories/2012/03/pecatonica-gives-up-2nd-state-record-walleye/

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Thanks JW, the Turkey looks high in that picture, late march? I know its the late feburary or march thaw.

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Dan, I’m just posting the pictures… I don’t have a clue when/where these fish were actually caught. All I know is they are flipping huge… whatever they weighed… they are awesome.

I’m not sure what I’d do if I hooked one. Hope these guys released them. I’ve heard varying reports on if walleyes spawn very far upstream of the Mississippi on Iowa’s interior rivers/streams.

Turkey River Walleye:



15+ Pounds

Wapsi River Walleye:



15.2 Pounds

Disclaimer: I have no idea who these guys are or if the walleyes were really caught on the rivers listed. These pictures were forwarded to me via cell phone from Clay (thank you!). I’m just posting them up.

For reference:

Iowa State Record Walleye 14 lb. 8 oz. 30 1/2″ Des Moines River, Polk County Gloria Eoriatti, Ankeny Sep-86

I sent a text this morning (for the second time I think… at least my phone says it’s the same number as posted before). Never got a response back last time, but I can post them up easily if they are sent to me.

It’s a sad state for sure… not sure what this means long term… but these next few days in the 100* area are going to be rough.

Saturday evening my brother and I put in at Ellis and ran upstream, fished the rocks just past where the river takes a 90* turn away from Ellis Blvd and back into that pond on the other side of the river a ways. Tons of bait fish… no fish to eat them.

Pulled out of there and went down below the C St dam and fished from shore with bluegill and stinkbait. Had a couple hits on the stinkbait (very light no takers) and nothing on the bluegills. There was one boat that put in and had trouble getting away from the ramp. Another boat backed in and ended up leaving. It’s so shallow down there… much lower than the last time I put in down there, probably almost a foot lower.

Got up at about 4:30 AM hoping to hit the Wapsi early only to be greated with rain. We waited an hour and a half or so and got after them. Dropped in at Stone City. Nice ramp but basically ends a couple feet in with current water levels. Rain started about 30 yards upstream from ramp. We were disappointed and anchored under some shelter to check radar. I dropped a jig in just for the heck of it and pulled out two walleye in a few minutes. My brother caught a variety in the same spot redhorse, carp, and very small channel cats.

Ventured further up river despite the rain and found decent smallmouth bit along the rocky shores. Nothing huge biggest around 14-15″. Brother caught a rockbass as well. Deep rolled in a couple channel cats on lipless cranks in 6-7 fow. Deepest we found was around 8 feet. Didnt get any purposeful catfishing in, but didnt find any/many snags with more than a couple feet of water around them.

My 16′ jon mod-v jon with 15 hp got around well. Only a couple beachings. Just go slow! About a dozen smallies, a bunch of tiny channel cats, few “bonus” species… it was a good day. Rained the whole time we were fishing… about four hours.

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I was just thinking the same thing. I’d love to find a pike that sized that could take a 5lb fish in one bite.

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When we’re up in Canada we’re always amazed at how small of a fish will attack a nice 22-23″ walleye at the side of the boat. Those pike sure are aggressive son-z-a-guns…
If I had a shark do that to me I’d have thrown my pole in and walked away.

I think we’re going to give it a shot. Might drop in at Stone City per suggestion. Might pop my transducer off the transom before the trip though.

I’m in Cedar Rapids and short of the stretch from the 5-in-1 to 90* turn away from Ellis Blvd I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to fish much of the Cedar from a boat.

Well, we caught a few smallmouths and a couple bluegills. Saturday was blazing hot, but Sunday was nice and cool early in the AM and overcast. Still couldn’t find any walleyes, but we had a good time. Not many people fishing it but lots of boaters for sure.

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I didn’t go the other afternoon after work because its just too darned hot, even after dark. I was down there a couple weeks ago JW, was that you sitting a couple hundred yards up river from the mouth of indian creek. The guy I talked to said he had just gotten there and I got stuck on a sandbar and had to pole off to deeper water and ya it was very low then and probably lower now like you say.

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Nope, not me. I walked in from the road by the nature center. Real early in the morning, didn’t see anyone else. Wish I could hunt rabbits out there. Never seen so many of them in Iowa!

Judging by the picture that walleye must be three feet long.

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Just catching a couple doesn’t really mean there are fishable numbers. If you’re seeing those guys catch 1-2 every ten minutes it’s one thing… but if it’s 1-2 in 2-3 hours… that’s different. My wife caught a small walleye in about 10″ of water throwing a spinnerbait at a lake last year. That doesn’t mean I’m bombing 10″ of water the rest of the day wondering why they aren’t hitting.

I’m sure someone can tell me I’m wrong here, but when we’re catching walleyes it doesn’t seem like we catch that many sheephead at the same time. At least 7-10:1 walleye:sheephead. And many places once we catch a sheephead that area is done for awhile. Meaning… the sheephead seems to be the last fish we catch even if we continue fishing… if that makes any sense.

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Where are you from? I would love to catch 1-2 walleye every 10 minutes, 1-2 an hour is more like it for this area right now… especially with the high muddy water. The last few weeks most guys who are catching fish are pitching jigs to 0-3′ of water.

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Haha, I’d love to catch 1-2 every 10 minutes as well.
All I’m saying is, are they catching them consistantly? If so, why not use what they’re using? If it’s just 1-2 in an hour maybe it’s just a fluke… that’s all I was saying.

There can’t be a whole heck of a lot of water down south of the C Street dam. There wasn’t much when I was down there last and the river has gone down since then.

Walked down to the mouth of Indian Creek a couple weeks ago and fished a bit… there’s no water anywhere.

Just catching a couple doesn’t really mean there are fishable numbers. If you’re seeing those guys catch 1-2 every ten minutes it’s one thing… but if it’s 1-2 in 2-3 hours… that’s different. My wife caught a small walleye in about 10″ of water throwing a spinnerbait at a lake last year. That doesn’t mean I’m bombing 10″ of water the rest of the day wondering why they aren’t hitting.

I’m sure someone can tell me I’m wrong here, but when we’re catching walleyes it doesn’t seem like we catch that many sheephead at the same time. At least 7-10:1 walleye:sheephead. And many places once we catch a sheephead that area is done for awhile. Meaning… the sheephead seems to be the last fish we catch even if we continue fishing… if that makes any sense.

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Okay so what does sir alec guinness have to do with this state record catfish that was just caught lol??

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He wrote the Guinness Book of State Records. Duh!

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guiness were down there.

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When someone tells you Guiness is “down there” checking out a state record you don’t scratch your head a little bit?

Have you still been running bank lines, Dan? If so have you done any good? Maybe you’re just neck deep in catfish to clean so you can’t give us an update.

I went home last weekend and fished the Mississippi with my dad and brother. Caught some walleyes. Nothing huge but several decent fish. Was good to see a walleye again.

Wait… so you went fishing and there were some NASCAR drivers there?

We got a touch last night… enough to get the grass wet, not sure it got to the dirt.

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Bk you should take up golf this year

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The pooper is, I’m actually considering it!

I thought the Cedar Rapids area was dry. Well then NE needs it!

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Dry isn’t the right word. Hadn’t mowed in a month at least… ran the mower around the yard on Friday just because…

Nasty dry. Corn is starting to curl up and it’s finally getting to be knee high on average. Sholders around July 4 seems to have become more the norm. Dry dry dry. Cedar River is more like a stream of cow urine at this point…