We’ve had some heavy rains out here in Hoosier land over the last few weeks. Tons of flooding, closed roads, trees down etc.

 

I went by the river yesterday and it’s finally coming down. I’m going to try to get out tomorrow evening or Monday. Have heavy rains helped y'all's fishing this time around? 

We fished muddy water yesterday.  The surface temp was 56°.  It was very windy but when we could find a spot out of the wind we caught fish.  They were in the rocks in less than 10 feet of water.

Never helps here 

Nope the Ohio is seriously flooded, many of the creeks, small rivers are returning to normal but most ponds, smaller lakes are quite high and muddy. I suspect things will be fine in a few days..

Nope, heavy rain and flooding never helps my fishing. 

Heavy rain doesn't help my fishing either.

Same here. Got out yesterday and it was a big old skunk for us. 

Rivers and creeks of SW Ohio are getting close to normal. I want to try some of the northern range today before a front comes in again

 

Heavy rains here almost always help. 

On 4/13/2025 at 1:42 PM, F14A-B said:

Nope the Ohio is seriously flooded, many of the creeks, small rivers are returning to normal but most ponds, smaller lakes are quite high and muddy. I suspect things will be fine in a few days..

I was just in Evansville the past two days and the flooding is unreal.  Town is okay but every creek and low area around is flooded.  Then flying out over the Ohio and others it was miles of flooding.  All of the fields that are river bottoms are under feet of water.  At one point the water was multiple miles wide for as far as the eye could see.  It’s going to take more than a few days for that to drain away.

2 hours ago, casts_by_fly said:

I was just in Evansville the past two days and the flooding is unreal.  Town is okay but every creek and low area around is flooded.  Then flying out over the Ohio and others it was miles of flooding.  All of the fields that are river bottoms are under feet of water.  At one point the water was multiple miles wide for as far as the eye could see.  It’s going to take more than a few days for that to drain away.

I live nearly 900 feet above sea level. Up here the ponds and creeks are fine now, in fact in these situations farmers on the river bottoms (Ohio) move their cattle up here to feed and wait it out. 
Gravity has its advantages. But yes, the Ohio river basin, White & Blue River basins are a mess. The river system in central Kentucky is a mess also. Definitely a very destructive weather event. 

6 hours ago, F14A-B said:

I live nearly 900 feet above sea level. Up here the ponds and creeks are fine now, in fact in these situations farmers on the river bottoms (Ohio) move their cattle up here to feed and wait it out. 
Gravity has its advantages. But yes, the Ohio river basin, White & Blue River basins are a mess. The river system in central Kentucky is a mess also. Definitely a very destructive weather event. 

 

Yeah, I noticed that also.  All of the ponds that were a couple hundred yards uphill from the river flooding were green and clean.  But man if you were in that bottoms you were in a tough spot.  One of the houses that sits in the bottoms musst have been built on a slight rise because the house, an out building, and a little bit of parking area were above the water but that was it.  It was at least a mile of water from there to solid land.  This was just across the border into Kentucky between the Green river and Ohio river

Spring time heavy rain would bring more fish to tributary creeks for spawning. When the river is heavily flooded and local tributary creeks water levels stay the same, it is the golden opportunity to fish the creek mouths.

Rain all week here in Iowa.

 

We needed it so I shouldn't complain (too much).