Mid-July 2021

[FishnDave]

Made my way back to Iowa this past week. Did some flyfishing.
Hit one or two bodies of water, I caught some bluegills, and Pumpkinseed Sunfish:

some Hybrid Sunfish:

Black Crappie:


and some Largemouth Bass:

[FishnDave]

Visited a river. Caught Common Shiners:




Creek Chubs:


a Carmine Shiner:


Hornyhead Chubs:


Rock Bass:






Also Green Sunfish (no pictures), and Smallmouth Bass:

[FishnDave]

Visited some trout streams.
Caught Brook Trout:






And Brown Trout:

[FishnDave]

Other things seen while fishing:
I think this is a juvenile Common Water Snake or juvenile Northern Watersnake:


I believe this is a Fishing Spider on top, and maybe a Wolf Spider below? Both were rather large.


Pink Milkweed:


Orange Milkweed:


Turk's Cap Lillies:


Some other kind of Lilly:

[lastchance]

You caught a diverse number of fish. Good for you. You got to sample it all.

[iaflyfisher]

Nice fishing David - Glad you made it back.

[Rick Z]

Glad you had so much fun.
Rick

[Prairieschooner]

Nice!!!!!! (10 characters)

[BadBug]

As usual, a nice variety of fish Dave. Never saw those Carmine Shiners. They have quite a mouth for a small fish. Kind of crazy they attacked that Bugger. Good job -- great photos.

Dennis

[FishnDave]

Thanks fellas!
I was surprised by that Carmine Shiner as well. You never know what might hit!
I was happy to add 8 species to my 2021 list on this trip to Iowa...I'm up to 42 species on flies so far this year! Probably won't get many more, but I'm happy.