My brother is an Army Colonel working at the Rock Island Arsenal in the Quad Cities of Davenport, Rock Island, Moline, and whatever the 4th one is. He is an ocassional fly fisherman looking to get a bit more serious about it. And he’s looking for fishing opportunities in that area. He has an SUV and a touring bike, and likes to ride to fishing locations within a couple of hours of where he’s hanging his hat. He’s married and has adult kids and grandchildren, but he’s unaccompanied up there and maintaining a primary residence in the St. Louis area. His wife asked me to try and help him find some new fishing locations and buddies up that way. He’s a pretty cool guy to hunt and fish with. I’ll vouch for him. He’s been my primary hunting and fishing buddy for many years. His biggest personality flaw is that he still has a tendancy to carry treble hooks and power bait when he goes trout fishing…even if he only takes a fly rod. But I think he would get over that with a little more successful experience. :lol:
Anyone who would like to help an old warrior out with his off-duty time, please get in touch with me and I’ll put y’all in touch with each other. Thanks.
I’m no longer in Iowa - but there are some decent trout streams up in North East Iowa - about a 3 hour drive from him. If that’s not too far, let me know, and I’ll send some more specific details.
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