high water

[ctom]

With all the rain we've seen lately everything that I fish has high water. The lake north of town I fish for crappies on went over three feet above summer pool. The big river's backwaters are about four feet higher than normal so all the landings are tough to launch without getting wet.

We've really been itchy to get to the Mississippi River's backwaters because the best bassing is right about now. Our last trip down about a month ago showed me a couple in the four pound range and that was when the big bass begin to show, so they should be fairly common now.... if we could get to them without needing to take a dip.

The lake north of town is dropping fairly well and will be under a no-wake rule, but I think we're going to go hit it Weds to see if we can tease some suspended crappies into hitting.

Our recent weather has been nuts with tornado warnings for two consecutive days last week. Sirens wailed one of the days and the clouds with rotation went right overhead here at home. Pretty awesome to see but really not needed. Almost five inches of rain from those two days alone and all told about 10 confirmed funnels. The weather maps both days looked like checkerboards with all the watch and warning boxes. Its been pretty warm and humid since the bad weather. Hopefully we'll be able to track down the crappies but I'm worried about how deep the thermocline has gone. That can spell death to crappies if its too deep.

[brennan.chapman]

Our lakes are finally beginning to resemble their former selves. Need another 3 feet and we're back to normal around northeast Iowa. Although we don't need it all at once.

The backwater bass are munching. They retired four new hollow body frogs in two days of fishing last weekend on pool 10. Tons of fun. 

[basscatlildave]

Been high ALL year down here. Not bad on the Bass but other stuff makes it tough.

[bigjim5589]

We've had feast or famine. We had been getting a decent amount of rain, then it got really dry and not enough rain. When we got a rain, often it was with a storm, and always that chance of bad winds and tornados.

My garden had started out great, but then I had to be concerned my well had enough water in it, and couldn't seem to keep enough water on everything and some had dried up.

I haven't even been fishing in awhile due to the heat here and we haven't gotten into the hottest part of the year yet.   

The weeds are growing good, as they always do! 

I've said some prayers too for all those folks who have had bad flooding, property and life loss! I know things can always be worse, so am thankful so far it's not been here.