River backwaters offer safer ice and predictable winter crappie habitat. Here’s how learning to fish slack water changed my ice season.

OKOBOJI, Iowa ( KCAU) — Registration is now open for this year’s Iowa Great Lakes Walleye Weekend. Walleye Weekend is held the first weekend in May every year to coincide with the opening of walleye ...

Levi Schneider gets his award-winning largest fish measured as a 10-inch blue gill. Bows & Bullets' 4-H member Jack Green ...

Here is this week’s Northwest Iowa Fishing Report as released by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Thursday, January ...

Using whole crappie for bait shredded by savage toothy fish.

Fishing duo Cole and Jay experience real raw crappie fishing in a swamp.

Water level is 9.28 feet low and slightly stained. Water temperature in the low 50s. Crappie guide Blake Ostreich says with the bite is consistent around shad balls in 20-plus feet of water. Jigs and ...

Beaver Lake: Striped bass are biting on the south end of the lake, reports Jon Conklin, fishing guide. Try for stripers from Monte Ne south into the War Eagle and White River tributaries. Shad is the ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Unseasonably warm temperatures in the past few weeks have worsened ice quality in much of the state, the ...

Over 875,000 hunting and fishing licenses were sold last year, according to the 2025 State Fish and Game Protection Fund Report. Revenue from license fees goes into the Fish and Wildlife Trust Fund.

Cold weather does not mean the fishing fun stops. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is gearing up for an exciting winter season as the Iowa 4-H Statewide Fishing Club kicks off its ice ...