Jakob Mackey was fishing his neighborhood lake in Sioux City, Iowa last August when an enormous grass carp jerked his rod off the shore and into the water. Mackey had been targeting big carp in Bacon ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — A western Iowa angler joins a long line of world record holders after reeling in a massive grass carp over the summer. With his 71 lbs 8 oz catch, Jakob Mackey shattered the ...

A western Iowa angler joins a long line of world record holders after reeling in a massive grass carp over the summer. With his 71 lbs 8 oz catch, Jakob Mackey shattered the previous record for ...

Consider the fact that you’re either an angler or you’re not. Even if you have only a foggy memory of a day long ago when someone took you to a pond and handed you a fishing rod, you are a fisher. So, ...

Iowa's got another master angler. Instead of watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 8, Micaiah Thompson decided it would be a good day to go fishing. And it looks like he made the right call: He ...

IOWA, USA — The Hawkeye State's ice fishing season is rapidly approaching its end for the year, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said Wednesday. This week, a UTV broke through the ice on East ...

A 35-year-old Iowa angler who took a church youth group ice fishing on Super Bowl Sunday has been awarded a state record for his catch of a nearly 4-pound black crappie. The Iowa Department of Natural ...

Micaiah Thompson and his friend Dan Ginn had other plans this Super Bowl Sunday. Instead of watching the game on the couch, the two fishermen decided to take five kids from a church youth group ice ...

An Eastern Iowa dairy has agreed to pay more than $38,000 in a consent order with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for a March 2025 manure spill that killed more than 126,000 fish. The ...

The minnow U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ecologists pulled from the shallow moat was a puny thing, with a flare of orange rimming its fins and a dark band of scales running the full length of its ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (Iowa DNR) says it will release rainbow trout in nine locations across Iowa, including two spots in Siouxland. According to the Iowa DNR, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Unseasonably warm temperatures have compromised ice quality south of Iowa Highway 3, making ice fishing unsafe in the area. “Ice fishing in central and southern Iowa, is not advised ...