Fishing near Moline, Illinois

Moline is one of the Rock Island County towns of Illinois. Some 42,681 people call it home. Start close and work out: Moline Pool some 0.6 miles to the north-west, Sylvan Slough some 3.0 miles, Coaltown Slough some 5.2 miles to the south-east plus Bowles Slough some 5.7 miles. Coaltown Slough changes character between one tide and the next. Nearly all of it is impounded. Reed beds repay a slow, close approach. Ice comes and goes from one winter to the next. Nothing here is dependable in winter. The nearest of them, Moline Pool, covers about 142 acres. There is a car park at Moline Pool, according to mapping. On climate averages, local water clears around mid March. County records name channel catfish, goldfish, common carp and freshwater drum among the fish present. You have a mixed set of waters to pick from. The run from Moline to Moline Pool is the shortest of them all....