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Fishing Conditions Good for Holiday Weekend Posted 28 August 2008 This week's Iowa Fishing Report reported good conditions for the Mississippi River along Allamakee, Clayton and Dubuque counties.   Mississippi River Pools 9 to 15: Fishing success continues to be fair to good on the Mississippi River. On Thursday, water levels were as follows: Lansing 7.8 feet, Lynxville, Wis., 12.2 feet, McGregor 6.8 feet, Guttenberg 4.1 feet, Dubuque 7.43 feet, Bellevue 4.51 feet, and Camanche 9.49 feet. Water levels are stable to slowly falling and temperature is in the upper 70s. Be careful when boating on the Mississippi as a lot of new snags have appeared after the spring floods. Walleye fishing is fair along the wingdams from Pool 9 through 15. Use a three-way rig tipped with a leech or night crawler along the front edge of the wing dams. Fishing is good to excellent for channel catfish along rocky shorelines and riprap areas. Channel catfish also can be found near fallen snags and the holes behind the wing dams in Pools 9 through 15. Anglers fishing in Pools 9 through 15 are having good success fishing for both smallmouth and largemouth bass. Look for areas with moderate current and structure, such as wood or rocks. Bass also concentrate along rocky shorelines with drop-offs. Bluegill fishing is good in Pools 9 through 15 on wax worms or garden worms suspended under a bobber fished along rip rapped shorelines or near woody structure adjacent to the channel. Crappie fishing is fair to good with most fishing occurring in deeper slough areas using crappie rigs and slowly trolling around the snags and woody cover in the backwater areas and side channels. Northern pike can be caught on spinnerbaits or topwater baits fished near Harpers Ferry in Pool 10 and in the Guttenberg tailwater. A few white bass are reportedly hitting spinners and jigs fished near Clayton in Pool 10 and around the wing dams in Pool 11. The white bass have not been plentiful but some really nice sized ones are being reported.   Walleye fishing is good on night crawlers in the Upper Iowa River in Winneshiek and Allamakee counties. Fishing is excellent for smallmouth bass using spinners and jigs. Trout fishing in Iowa continues to be excellent throughout the area. If you have a question about the recent stockings, call the trout stocking hotline at (563) 927-5736 for updated information. For more information on fishing in northeast Iowa, call (563) 927-3276.

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