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 ...

The Iowa Natural Resources Commission has approved spending $75,000 on a filter system for the Spirit Lake fish hatchery in Dickinson County to improve the production of muskellunge or muskies.

Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery Manager Kim Hawkins says they were very successful in collecting the northern pike needed this year. “Within one night, we had over 130 fish in one net, so we caught ...

Iowa has five fish hatcheries run by the Iowa Department ... rears catfish and walleye for the state. And the Spirit Lake hatchery, in Spirit Lake, is a walleye, northern pike and muskellunge ...

Each spring, Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery crews net walleye ... Musky, a trophy fish that's not native to Iowa lakes, can grow as large as 50 pounds, Meerbeek said. With only about 1,000 muskies ...

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KWQC) – Depending on your experience ... swimming to the shoreline to spawn. The captured fish are taken to a hatchery where their eggs are removed and fertilized before ...

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KUOO) - An annual rite of spring and ... transition into muskie spawning as well.” The Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery, which is located in Orleans, is currently open seven days ...

Spirit Lake serves as the primary source of walleyes for the Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery’s annual egg collection ... To maintain that level of production, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources ...

The 195 acre land will be restored to wetland and prairie in the Spirit Lake North ... Divan said. Iowa has lost between 89% of its original wetlands, according to the U.S Fish and Wildlife ...

NEW TONIGHT, A LAKE IN NORTHWEST IOWA IS TESTING OFF THE CHARTS FOR E COLI. THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES SAYS IT FOUND TEN TIMES THE ACCEPTABLE LEVEL AT SPIRIT LAKE. THAT’S NEAR ...