Skip to content Skip to navigation menu

Decorah District Trout Streams


RECEIVE FISHING REPORT UPDATES!








Rating - Good   

Wednesday, Nov 27 2024
Trout stream stocking are done for the year. Staff would like to thank all our trout anglers and supporters for making this season fun and rewarding. Many trout streams flow through public areas where hunting is allowed. Brook Trout - Slow: Brook trout are more interested in spawning than feeding making catching more difficult. Dabble a fly through the narrow unvegetated runs or find deeper pool above beaver dams. Brown Trout - Good: Avoid walking in clear gravel areas in faster moving water, these are are trout nests or redds. Use flies imitating minnows or other small fish. Rainbow Trout - Good: Catchable stocking is complete for the season, but plenty of fish remain in streams. A small chunk of worm or cheese under a bobber fished through a deeper hole will turn a rainbow head. Cut the line on a deeply hooked fish if returning it to the water.

Wednesday, Nov 27 2024



GPS

GPS: 43.3033° N, 91.7857° W

Access Info

https://www.iowadnr.gov/Fishing/Where-to-Fish/Trout-Streams

Click here to unsubcribe from your fishing reports.

Decorah District Trout Streams

RECEIVE FISHING REPORT UPDATES!


Rating - Good

Trout stream stocking are done for the year. Staff would like to thank all our trout anglers and supporters for making this season fun and rewarding. Many trout streams flow through public areas where hunting is allowed. Brook Trout - Slow: Brook trout are more interested in spawning than feeding making catching more difficult. Dabble a fly through the narrow unvegetated runs or find deeper pool above beaver dams. Brown Trout - Good: Avoid walking in clear gravel areas in faster moving water, these are are trout nests or redds. Use flies imitating minnows or other small fish. Rainbow Trout - Good: Catchable stocking is complete for the season, but plenty of fish remain in streams. A small chunk of worm or cheese under a bobber fished through a deeper hole will turn a rainbow head. Cut the line on a deeply hooked fish if returning it to the water.


Other Fishing Reports for Ankeny


Black Hawk River/Lake

Fair

11/27/2024
Water clarity is around 12 inches. Water levels are several inches below the crest of the spillway. The fish cleaning station is ...
Learn More

Twelve Mile Creek Lake

Poor

11/27/2024
The dock is in at the main boat ramp. Yellow Perch - Slow: Catch yellow perch up to 11-inches with a jig tipped with live bait a ...
Learn More

Spirit Lake

Good

11/27/2024
Lake level is a few inches below crest. The ramp/dock at Templar can be used for the remainder of the season. Black Crappie - Go ...
Learn More

East Okoboji Lake

Good

11/27/2024
Lake level is just below crest. The ramp/dock at upper gar can be used for the remainder of the open water season. Black Crappie ...
Learn More

Storm Lake

Poor

11/27/2024
Walleye Slow: Anglers are picking up some walleye from shore. The Chautauqua Jetty and Frank Starr Park attract a lot of walley ...
Learn More

Red Rock Reservoir

Unknown

11/27/2024
No report
Learn More

Hickory Grove Lake

Unknown

11/27/2024
No report
Learn More

Ada Hayden Heritage Park Lake

Good

11/27/2024
Rainbow Trout - Good: Trout were stocked on Oct. 31. Use spinners, spoons, minnows, wax worms or flies. You need a valid fishing ...
Learn More

West Okoboji Lake

Good

11/27/2024
Lake level is a few inches below crest. Triboji dock is in. Black Crappie - Fair: Bluegill - Good.
Learn More

Des Moines River (Saylorville to Redrock)

Fair

11/27/2024
Walleye - Fair: Cast jigs tipped with live minnows, twister tails, or swim baits below Saylorville dam, city dams, and any deepe ...
Learn More

Three Mile Lake

Unknown

11/27/2024
Lake level is 11 feet below normal pool. Boat ramp lanes are out of the water at the main boat ramp.
Learn More

Brushy Creek Lake

Unknown

11/27/2024
The west boat ramp courtesy dock will remain in during the winter. The other ramp courtesy docks have been removed for the seas ...
Learn More

Cedar River (Nashua to La Porte City))

Good

11/27/2024
Anglers are catching a few walleye on the Cedar River. Walleye - Good: Cast and retrieve a jig and plastic tipped with a minnow.
Learn More

Cedar River (Above Nashua)

Good

11/27/2024
Water level remain low to steady. Black Crappie - Good: Find fish in backwater areas with woody debris. Use a minnow under a bo ...
Learn More

Easter Lake

Unknown

11/27/2024
No report
Learn More

Badger Creek Lake

Unknown

11/27/2024
No report
Learn More

Red Haw Lake

Poor

11/27/2024
Bluegill - Slow: Try small jigs around shorelines and submerged structure near the campground shoreline. Largemouth Bass - Slow: ...
Learn More

Big Creek Lake

Unknown

11/27/2024
No report
Learn More

Hawthorn

Poor

11/27/2024
Black Crappie - Slow: Try jig and minnow combinations in brush piles. Bluegill - Slow: Use jigs around brush piles. Largemouth B ...
Learn More

Pleasant Creek

Unknown

11/27/2024
No report
Learn More

Rice Lake

Poor

11/27/2024
Any water west of the north boat ramp is a waterfowl refuge and is closed to all activity from Sept. 1st through the final day o ...
Learn More

Clear Lake

Fair

11/27/2024
Water level is 8.6 inches below crest. Water temperature is in the mid-30s. All courtesy docks have been taken out for the seaso ...
Learn More

Rathbun Reservoir

Poor

11/27/2024
The current lake level is 903.36 msl; recreation pool is 904 msl. Lake Rathbun has zebra mussels; properly drain, clean and dry ...
Learn More

Saylorville Reservoir

Fair

11/27/2024
Walleye - Fair: Cast jigs tipped with live minnows, twister tails, or swim baits into deeper pools on outside bends and above an ...
Learn More