Well, it’s been a cold and long winter here in Iowa. But I had to get out and at least get a fishing line in the water on Saturday. I’ve watched too many youtube videos this winter of other people catching fish and spent too much time in the fishing tackle aisles at Cabelas, Bass Pro, Mills Fleet Farm, Gander Mountain, etc. etc. etc.
Even though the temperature on Saturday was only 31 degrees and 20+ mph wind, I headed out to the Indian Creek Nature Center and made a few casts on Indian Creek where it empties into the Cedar River. The water was a little high, but not bad. I was throwing a Moxi minnow from B Fish N Tackle, and the only action I got was a follow up to shore by a smallish northern pike. No bites, but I did see the northern follow the bait right up to shore. Water temp was upper 30s, and I was accumulating ice in my spinning rod tips. I’m used to that when ice fishing, but come on, not during open water.
The roller dam in Cedar Rapids isn’t much of a dam at all on March 22, 2014.
The water was sure coming over the roller dam on Old River Road off of C Street. Not much fishing going on here.
Hoping to find some walleyes in the Cedar Rapids area. Generally they will swim up a ways into Indian Creek to spawn when the water temps hit the mid-40 degrees. The next couple weeks we should find some.
The forecast looks good for this weekend, the last weekend in March, and it can’t come soon enough.