First fish of the year

I visited Big Creek Outdoor Supply, Mount Pleasant, Iowa and talked to owner Jim Smith. He informed me that several guys had been catching channel cats over the course of the last several days. Although the temperature had dropped 30 degrees and we have snow on the ground today, the fish were still biting. One angler stopped by the shop with 5 or 6 fish weighing from 2 to 4 pounds. Nightcawlers were doing the trick. Late in the afternoon I decided to give it a try myself and ended up catching just a few small ones. Conditions today were falling water, water temp 42, air temp 32, wind chill 19. Angler claimed to have caught 32 fish over the three previous days when the air temp was around 58 and the water was high and steady.

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