CEDAR RIVER IN SOUTHEN MN

[fishdog]

THE CEDAR RIVER FROM AUSTIN TO THE IOWA BORDER IS NOW A MN DNR RIVER ROUTE WITH NEW AREAS BEING DEVELOPED FOR PUBLIC ACCESS. THE CEDAR WILL ALSO HAVE "FIRST COME ,FIRST SERVE FREE CAMPSITES" SOON.

THE RIVER.WATER LEVALS ARE LOW THIS YEAR BUT THE CEDAR RIVER IN MN IS EASY TO NAVAGATE HAS ALOT OF FRESH WATER SPRINGS.

HUGE CHANNEL CATS,NORTHERN PIKE AND SOME "REALY BIG SMALLIES" ARE HERE, NOT TO MENTION NICE WALLEYES ARE NOW COMMONLY CAUGHT HERE IN THE AUSTIN AREA. CHECK OUT THE MNDNR WEBSITE FOR FREE RIVER MAPS,RIVER WATER LEVELS,EXT

CHECK IT OUT AND EXPLORE

[Ufatz]

Are you kidding me!!!? Is this the same stinking, muck filled and toxic trickle, littered with dead fish and junk, that it was when I lived on its shores a few decades ago.

I saw it a couple years ago and it looked the same to me. I did see a couple mergansers swimming in it so perhaps it is a little less toxic so perhaps all the dump rats produced by the Hormel plant are now running its banks again.

Does it still stink like it did then? Does the water still bubble and fizz at times?

Hard for me to imagine it being considered as a recreational river with streamside campgrounds, picnic areas and fishing access spots.

Is this an early April Fools joke?

[fishdog]

THEY HAVE REALY BEEN IMPROVING THE CEDER RIVER HERE IN MOWER COUNTY,(AUSTIN AREA)

THE EPA IS KEEPING RECORDS AND ENFORCING WATER POLUTION AND RUNNOFF AT EVERY CREEK FLOWING INTO THE CEDAR, A VERY NICE BIKE TRAIL ALOG THE Banks north of horesmell (hormel) from todd park to wildwood park ,

ALOT OF ROCKS HAVE BEEN PLACES ON THE BANKS TO STOP ERROSION OF TOP SOIL.

THE RIVER AND EASTSIDE LAKE HAVE BEEN STOCKED WITH WALLEYES (LARGE ONES ARE HERE AND THRIVING ,IVE SEEN 2 'EYES OVER 8LBS THIS YEAR AND ONE THAT GOT MOUNTED AT NEARLY 10LBS LAST YEAR.)

THE RIVER DOSENT SMELL FUNKY(EXECPT FOR AREA NEAR THE SEWER WASTE WATER PLANT THE AIR IS SMELLY)

ALL IN ALL THE CEDER RIVER IS ALOT CLEANER THAN 3 YEARS AGO ALL THE OLD TIRES AND RIVERJUNK BEEN REMOVED BY MNDNR AND VOLENTREERS

SORRY ABOUT THE CAPITAL LETTERS...OOPS\

[Ufatz]

I can die a happy man knowing there is a LIVE fish in the Cedar River. In the old days if you waded in it wearing rubber boots the bottoms would fall off within a day or so. Bugs flying over the water would perish in mid-air and drop into the swill; paint would peel away from the bottom of aluminum rescure boats and you could HEAR the river hissing and sizzling and fizzing as it went by with big gas bubbles popping all the time.

I once saw a couple drake mallards mistakenly land on the river right in town. They squaked loudly and raised up immediately with thier wing tips showing burn marks and their normally orange feet were sorta green.

Tell me, do they still issue those little gas masks to newborn babies who have to live along the river?

Maybe some day I'll drive down there to see for myself. But if I still see that brownish-grey toxic cloud over the trees I'm turnin' right around and headin' north.

Clean up those upper case too!! LOL.....have fun down there.

[itchmesir]

Mmm.. Hotdog flavored water

[Stick in Mud]

Catfish like hotdogs.

[Ufatz]

Lemme tell ya.....the Cedar River I remember would COOK a hotdog within a minute or two. Crispy.