Iowa’s statewide fishing report on June 27, 2025
Here’s a look at the Iowa fishing report from across the state on June 27, 2025.
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Iowa’s Volga River State Recreation Area offers year round recreation
At nearly 5,800 acres, Volga River State Recreation Area is hard to miss.
Just a few miles north and east of Fayette, Iowa, Volga River has two campgrounds, one offering services to equestrians, and one offering services to traditional recreation vehicle campers with modern amenities; 22 miles of rugged trails, nearly all multi-use; a lake, a river, and the opportunity to hunt much of the timber prairie complex.
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Champions crowned in Iowa’s Scholastic Clay Target Program skeet championships
A total of 332 athletes from 39 Iowa teams participated in the 2025 Iowa Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) Skeet Championships on June 18-21, at the New Pioneer Gun Club, in Waukee.
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Fishing regulations to be relaxed at Iowa’s Dunlap Pond
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will relax the fishing regulations at Dunlap Pond starting July 1 to allow anglers to more freely harvest fish before the lake is completely drained as part of a plan to improve the lake’s depth, habitat, and water quality.
Anglers with a valid fishing license may harvest any size or number of largemouth bass, bluegill, crappie, channel catfish, and all other fish species from Dunlap Pond.
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Weather, nesting conditions have been good for Iowa pheasants in recent months
Iowa’s pheasant population is expected to benefit from the 2024-25 mild winter and average spring that much of the state experienced.
According to Iowa’s state climatologist, last winter was the fourth least snowy in 138 years, and the spring was normal for rainfall and temperature.
“Given the statewide information, we are expecting a good nesting effort and our weather model is predicting pheasant populations will likely be higher for the 2025 hunting season,” said Todd Bogenschutz, upland wildlife biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
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Iowa’s Red Haw State Park campground opening July 1 after three-year closure
The campground at Red Haw State Park will open starting July 1, 2025 after being closed for three years due to extensive tornado damage.
According to Chad Kelchen, district supervisor for the Iowa DNR Parks, Forests and Preserves Bureau, the renovated campground provides an improved layout, upgraded utilities and pull-through sites with lake views.
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Iowa’s statewide fishing report on June 22, 2025
Iowa’s statewide fishing report on June 22, 2025.
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Long hidden and rare, remnant prairie re-emerges after Iowa project removes unwanted invasives
Some of Iowa’s lesser known native prairie plants have returned to the hills overlooking Rock Creek Lake this spring, after a project last November knocked back invasive plant species such as honeysuckle and autumn olive that had thickly spread onto the area.
Standing on this patch of newly returning remnant prairie, wildlife biologist Todd Gosselink pointed out native flowers that were just waiting in the soil for the opportunity to reappear.
Michigan DNR biologists remove lid that had been stuck on bear’s neck for 2 years
In a case that the Michigan DNR says highlights the importance of the agency’s bear-baiting regulations, state wildlife biologists in Montmorency County recently removed a plastic lid from the neck of a young black bear that had carried the encumbrance around for two years.
It isn’t known exactly where or how the male bear got its head stuck in a 5-inch hole in the lid. The blue plastic lid is similar to those that fit 55-gallon drums used by hunters to bait bear and by landowners to store materials that can attract bears, such as chicken feed.
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