SilverMallard,

I'm at Iowa city, 1h west from Davenport. NEIA, and West WI are nice places to fish. There are plenty of small streams around with stocked fish and some few with wild trouts. I mainly fish the NEIA and I know that I should fish the WI stream more than I do. The southern streams are at Dubuque area (Swiss valley is nice to fish in spring and fall).
There is another web site that he should visit. It is a board that is visited by some locals that fly fish and some others that use spinning gear. In any case it has a ton of info about where to fish and easy to find people to go fishing together. By the way there is a HFF outing tomorrow (Thursday 19th) at the Manchester hatchery (2-3h from Davenport) at 6 pm until dusk. The spring branch is right there and it is a lot of fun to fish.
Iowa streams link
http://omega.grad.uiowa.edu/news.php

Martin