North Bear and South Bear creeks in Winneshiek County join and become Bear Creek (duh), which goes into Allamakee County, where it flows into Waterloo creek shortly before Waterloo creek enters the Upper Iowa River.  A few miles upstream from its mouth on Waterloo, Bear Creek flowed through (what used to be ) a Girl Scout camp, called Tahigwa.
This year, the DNR purchased the 316 acre former campsite, and it is NOW Tahigwa Wildlife Management Area, and State Park (if you believe the sign on the gate.)

The land east of Bear Creek is posted (currently) as a Wildlife Refuge.  This side is near the old lodge, and (presumably) will be (is?) the state park.  The land west of Bear Creek is marked as a WMA.

I went there twice this week, and found the creek FULL of little (stream raised?) rainbows, that eagerly took dry flies, as there were large numbers of midges rising.  I also caught a 12 brook trout (male, with teeth and a kype).  The new DNR trout guide says that there are "wild brown trouts" and that there is NO stocking; which is Weird, since the rainbows and brook trout i caught were NOT browns.  It LOOKS like it should be GREAT brown trout water, and i was disappointed that i didn't catch any, but i only fished two spots, for a total of about an hour.
It's a currently a GREAT place to catch little rainbows, and i like it!
The only problem is that, judging from the footprints, it's going to be pretty popular

it's that time of year again!  Browns are making redds; so Watch your feet!

I haven't posted for a while.  Streams were high most of the spring, summer;
and are Finally getting down where they fish good

went out last monday, march 11th.  Hickory creek was pretty near ice free; but the road parking hadn't been plowed (much), and the the trudge through the deep snow was exhausting. I fished for about 45 min in the late afternoon; but couldn't (didn't) get down to the water; cast from shore.  I didn't see any rises or even trouts swimming, had had no luck.  I worked my way up to the end of the Nursery run, and by where the big tree used to be at the top, i switched to a size 14 woolly bugger (black).  I cast it out next to the stump (where there used to be a deep hole), and on my 3rd cast hooked up on what seemed to be a holdover rainbow; but it broke the line.  So i was skunked.

Rain this week, so streams will be blown.  At least (hopefully) winter is over!

i went fishing at Bohemian creek at Ludwig park (by Protivin, near Spillville) last Thurs, i didn't stay long; but it only took me three casts to get a strike (and land the rainbow).   I didn't see any trouts rising during the 10 minutes i was there; but when i was there in late November i saw Many trouts rising (midges?  tiny BWOs?). 
I think that there are Way More holdover stocked rainbows there that you might think.  

went fishing at Hickory creek yesterday (12/13/2018) for first time this month
It looks like the Browns are off their redds, and are hungry as horses
Don't forget though; even though adults are off the redds, eggs (and then babies) will be in them through January.
So, if you don't remember where the Redds were made back in October, don't walk in the water, 'cause it will gett hard to see where the redds are now that the adults aren't keeping them clean. Fish from shore!

had good luck with my soft hackled pheasant tails (orange thread and wire, brass bead), and with small adams dries.
I saw quite a few fish (some large) rising to what i figured were midges, but i got 3 on the adams
Still quite a few rainbows in the water, they seemed fat (from eating eggs?) whereas the browns were all skinny

Just got back from fishing in Wyoming, on the Grey Reef and then up in the Big Horns.
They are having a hopper infestation, which means that those are the thing to use out there now.
Here's a pic of the North Tongue river up on US-14a, which is a cutthroat protected (catch and relase) area.