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‘Set up for a good hunting year for pheasants’

As the season looms, Iowa hunters can likely expect to harvest 300,000 to 400,000 roosters this year, which is similar to last year, when the harvest was the highest in more than a decade.

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‘Really good pheasant hunting’

Pheasant hunters in Iowa bagged 375,000 roosters in 2021, and the nesting outlook predicts another good hunting season ahead.

Fishing

No-limit fishing on Iowa lake

Anglers with a valid sport fishing license may harvest all sizes and unlimited quantities of any species of fish from Pickeral Lake by any means except by use of dynamite, poison, electroshocking devices, or any

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