SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KTIV) - Staff at the Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery wrapped up their annual gillnetting process this week. Gillnetting is the process of collecting eggs from Walleye, Northern Pike, and ...

Spring is spawning season and Iowa’s fish hatcheries are working to grow the fish to fill lakes across the state. Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery Manager Kim Hawkins says they were very successful in ...

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KUOO) - An annual rite of spring and gillnetting operations is underway on the Iowa Great Lakes. “This year we need around a thousand female walleyes to get the number of eggs the ...

The Iowa DNR says its spring effort to collect walleye eggs to raise the next generation of fish was one of the fastest in the program’s history. Jay Rudacille oversaw the operation at Lake Rathbun ...

A sign for trout stream fishing on the Turkey River sits behind a trout pond at Big Spring Fish Hatchery in Elkader on May 28. The river is open to the public for fishing and has an angler access ...

Spirit Lake serves as the primary source of walleyes for the Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery’s annual egg collection that provides half of all walleye fry and 25 percent of the fingerlings stocked statewide ...