yesterday , I went up to Patterson creek (which is up north of Waukon sort of on the way to Pine creek, if you were going to Pine creek from Waukon)

a couple of years ago, TU gave the state $28,000 to give to the landowner for a PERMINANT Easement on his property (which he was allowing access on already.  Then, the state did Quite a bit of stream enhancement (riprap, bank hides, etc)

I hadn't been up there for years, and wanted to check it out.

 The middle  stretch was full of very polite cattle, and the lower stretch had a guy and a girl fishing; so I went up from the second style, up to the east bridge. 

The pasture area didn't work for me (too sunny?), but once I got up to where the trees started, it was full of trouts.  I only landed 6 (2 browns & 2 bows on a quill Gordon, a brown & a bow on a pheasant tail), but I had countless strikes, including at least 10 on grasshoppers. 
There were trouts in the trees all the way up to the east bridge.  

It was a sunday, and I had about a mile (half mile?) totally to my self.
It was WAY better than it used to be, that's for sure.