Iowa’s statewide fishing report on July 18, 2024
A look at the Iowa fishing report from across the state on July 18, 2024.
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Women interested in learning to waterfowl hunt can register for Iowa course
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is offering a program to teach skills needed to hunt, field dress and cook waterfowl to women who have little to no waterfowl hunting experience.
“Waterfowl hunting can be challenging and this course will teach basic strategies, proper equipment, where to hunt, safe shooting practices, and how to field dress, prepare and cook them,” said Jamie Cook, program coordinator with the Iowa DNR.
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Fishing regulations to be relaxed at McKinley Lake in Creston, Iowa
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is relaxing the fishing regulations at McKinley Lake in Creston. The city of Creston will begin to drain the lake in August as part of a lake restoration project.
McKinley Lake, constructed in the 1870s, has accumulated a lot of sediment and nutrients over time causing poor water quality that impacts outdoor recreation opportunities on the community lake.
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Habitat diversity draws bird watchers, hunters to Iowa’s Copeland Bend Wildlife Area
Forty miles south of Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the Missouri River is the 3,500-plus-acre Copeland Bend Wildlife Area, an expansive mix of grasslands and high-quality wetlands constructed after the extensive flooding in 2011, when the big river was closed to boating, and levees up and down the Big Muddy were breached.
After the waters receded, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began to relocate and rebuild the levy system away from the river, creating a series of shallow wetlands and borrow pits as materials were needed to construct the new levee.
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Michigan’s Black River Lake boating access site closed due to dam release
The Michigan DNR has closed the boating access site at Black River Lake in Gogebic County indefinitely, and the public is advised to avoid the area and the soft soils that have been newly exposed, due to draining of water from the impoundment.
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Upgrades completed at massive Clinton River Cut-off boat access site on Michigan’s Lake St. Clair
A 2018 study determined that Lyngbya wollei, a fast-growing algae that thrives in 5 to 12 feet of water, was creating dangerous algae mats more than 3 inches deep each year.
Registration open for women’s outdoor weekend planned for September in Ohio
The Ohio DNR (ODNR) is opening registration for the 10th annual Ohio Women’s Outdoor Adventure weekend. The three-day event is set to take place at Mohican State Park Lodge and Conference Center from Sept. 20-22.
This weekend is designed to introduce women to an array of outdoor skills, including boating, fishing, shooting sports, and nature programming.
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Report turkey, grouse sightings this summer to help management in Ohio
The Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is asking the public to report sightings of turkeys and ruffed grouse this summer to help round out the agency’s annual population surveys. Community scientists, which can be anyone in the public, are encouraged to submit observations on the agency’s Wildlife Reporting System webpage at wildohio.gov or on the HuntFish OH mobile app.
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Ohio’s spring survey shows bald eagles thriving in the state
The bald eagle, a symbol of our nation, is doing well in the Buckeye State. The 2024 annual spring survey showed a robust estimate of 841 active eagle nests, according to the Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
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