Quote Originally Posted by Bobinmich View Post
Dave,

At the risk of hijacking the thread - oh wait a minute - it's my thread - did you ever fish the Ledges in Boone. I attended ISU in the mid 60's and we went over to the Ledges a lot chasing things other than trout. Just wondered if there was any fishing going on over there. We used to hunt the gravel pits north of Ames for pheasant. You could hunt them with a rock in those days, there were so many. And you could hunt fence rows without even asking. It was just the way it was done. Nobody cared. I was a Kappa sig when I was there. I was co-oping with Ford so I was on a swing schedule and couldn't hold a dorm contract, so I pledged. Good old days.

Bob
I've waded the small stream in the Ledges many times. We used to go there when I was a kid, and I've taken my own kids there a number of times. In the stream, there are various minnows, creek chubs, crayfish, green sunfish and assorted aquatic bugs. The fish are pretty small. When I was at ISU, a small mixed group of us took several canoes down the Des Moines River from the lower dam at Boone to the Ledges, we fished here and there along the way. I don't remember now everything we caught, but I do recall we caught channel cats, flatheads, and freshwater drum. I know there are walleyes and white bass in that stretch, and there should be smallmouth bass as well.