wanting to catch some ring perch

[74redone]

 I want to catch some ring perch this year. I have never had the chance to catch one of them. I live in the Quad Cities and was wondering how far north I will need to go,and if anybody has a lake they would suggest.
 Thanks for the help!
  Matt

[hnd]

pool 13 right above lock and dam 13 will have perch. try around michelson's landing.

[lindenborn]

do you mean yellow perch?

[74redone]

 never heard them called yellow perch before but thats not to say its not right. They are green with yellow rings so maybe.

[Roncarr]

Could you mean crappie with so many black spots that the yellow looks like rings.

[74redone]

 Sorry but its a crappie that I'm looking for. These fish are shaped like a walleye with rings of yellow that wrap around them

[hnd]

they are called both ring perch and yellow perch.  they look ntohing like a crappie.  pool 13 is the closest pool on the mississippi with at least ok numbers of them.  there are a few farm ponds in the qc with them stocked but they are smallish.  otherwise there are a few lakes north of the qc that have them near galena and dubuque.

[SPARKYICE]

i never heard them called ring perch. i can see how they would be called that though.

[74redone]

 so what lakes north of the qc?

they are called both ring perch and yellow perch.  they look ntohing like a crappie.  pool 13 is the closest pool on the mississippi with at least ok numbers of them.  there are a few farm ponds in the qc with them stocked but they are smallish.  otherwise there are a few lakes north of the qc that have them near galena and dubuque.

[hnd]

galena lake has them but i think its catch and release or you can keep 4 over 10" or something like that .  you generally won't find them in there by themselves.  expect to catch gills and crappie out of the cribs.   i've heard that fitzgerald lake near hanover may have some.  Lake summerset in davis has them.

there are a few in iowa....i can't put my finger on the name...it deer path or goose lake....can't remember.

but like i said, the big lake at the bottom of pool 13 is the closest.

[74redone]

 Thanks for the info!!

[smitty0312]

I caught my biggest one ever last year in mississippi river backwaters near Subula. Smitty