Spring Fishing

I love fishing in the spring and there is nothing quite as fun as getting over that winter sickness of wanting to open water fish then to get after some large, aggressive spawning fish. However, this spring I haven’t had very many opportunities to get out on the ponds and lakes that I wish I could have. I went three weeks ago on McLeod Run right here in Cedar Rapids (which is advertised as being as Iowa’s only Urban Trout Stream). I fished for an hour or two on the largest pool of this stream that I have at present discovered and I caught a REALLY nice brown trout, which happened to be the first of the species that I have ever caught. Now if you don’t know anything about McLeod it is extremely difficult to fish, as this stream is not a natural habitat for trout in urban Cedar Rapids. This is really just some project that the DNR really wants to do and has poured thousands of dollars and trout fingerlings into. The rest of the fish outing was uneventful as I caught no more fish after this brown trout.

My last outing was two weekends ago when I was finished with my pursuit of turkeys for the day (this was second season) I went fishing. I fished both Saturday and that Sunday and I caught a nice number of bass and crappies both of these days on some of those plastic minnows that they advertise on TV (the Banjo Minnow). I kept a couple of these bass and brought them back home to my grandparent’s house. I cleaned them and cooked them up for m grandpa and I and they tasted great to me, as they were a delicacy that I haven’t had in a while. I hope to return to my grandparent’s house on the fourth season of turkey hunting and bag that huge gobbler that has ever evaded me for three years now (ha, some turkey hunter I am). I hope at this time that the bass will be spawning and I can catch some of those huge largemouth bass lunkers that I know are hiding out there in those small ponds.