My 2025 Iowa season

[duckhunt]

Might as well kick off the new season. Cold and windy weekend I decided to leave the ice fishing gear at home. We are at the cabin for the weekend so I figured on some hiking. Yellow river state forest has about 60 miles of hiking trails so I figured that's a good start in preparation for my fall hunting season. Hopefully a colorado elk muzzy tag will be in my pocket. Plan is to do these 60 miles in addition to other hikes and also a few mtn tough programs.

Did a quick 2.17 miles after breakfast this morning. A few things to do today with the wife but hopefully do a couple more miles this afternoon.

 

[Maverick1]

Good luck this season! I briefly look at the Yellow River SF a few years ago. Lots of land!

 

[WildWill]

Considering doing a CO muzzy elk tag this year myself. With the weather we've had recently I'm sticking to the treadmill for now.

 

[duckhunt]

I sure haven't done much so far this year. Finally got out on the water with dad for some walleye fishing. A big goose egg for the morning. I missed one fish and dad donated about 20 dollars worth of jigs to the snags.

 

[Gellar]

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I sure haven't done much so far this year. Finally got out on the water with dad for some walleye fishing. A big goose egg for the morning. I missed one fish and dad donated about 20 dollars worth of jigs to the snags.

You are staying a long ways from the float.

 

[duckhunt]

You are staying a long ways from the float.

We tried both sides and went down stream. Yeah it was like bumper boats over by the float. I hate that chit.

 

[duckhunt]

Windy cold morning. I met dad at the bait shop in Genoa WI to get nonresident fishing license. Weather was decent and warm but just as we walk out it starts to pour. The rain only lasted about 5 minutes as we drove to the boat ramp. As we are putting the boat in the temp dropped about 15 degrees and the wind started blowing like crazy. Rumor is the bite was hot yesterday but not a single bite this morning. I'm guessing the cold front probably had something to do with it.

 

[kiwi hunter]

I find the the animals come out for good feed just before the front hits, same with fishing obviously. Get ahead of the next front.

 

[Gellar]

I find the the animals come out for good feed just before the front hits, same with fishing obviously. Get ahead of the next front.

The Mississippi River makes some of the best professional anglers look silly. There’s a lot more to the river than cold fronts and warm fronts. Rising, falling or steady river plus the pool level can play huge and change daily, if not by the hour. Turbidity with the massive amount of drainage that the river takes it may not have rained for a week but all of a sudden water clarity is zero and the level rises three feet because of snowmelt in Minnesota.

 

[johnp]

The Big River seems to be especially stingy for me this spring . The low water I think is the main culprit, but I'm gonna try again for a while tomorrow .

 

[duckhunt]

Water temp was 46.

 

[Gellar]

Water temp was 46.

It was 45 when I went on Wednesday.