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easement consists of a corridor of 75’ on both sides of the centerline of the creeks and then come across a pool the size of a small farm pond. For this reason, it’s recommended that fly fishing participants bring streamers and woolly buggers with their tackle, while
stream; therefore, the corridor moves as the stream changes direction. This spinning reel users pack the reliable worm and bobber. With plenty of runs, bank hides, and pools, lots of wild brown trout in the 10-12 inch range are common. The Iowa DNR also stocks this 0th Street 390th Street 39
allows continual access to the stream. On private property where an easement stream weekly from April to the end of October with catchable 10-12 inch rainbow trout. If you walk the middle segment of stream within the 919-acre Bloody Run Wildlife Management Area 20th Street P Maquoketa is present, DNR staff will be posting new, grey signs reading, ‘Open for Public (WMA), you will find a portion of the stream where only artificial lures can be used and all brown trout must be more than 14 inches to be kept. It is important to note that while Bloody Run River Fishing. Stream Easement Area’. intertwines with the railroad tracks, trespassing on private railroad property is illegal and dangerous. Therefore, anglers are NOT PERMITTED to walk on the railroad tracks. If you prefer to IF IN DOUBT, and neither sign is present, stay out or ask the landowner. There fish along sections that are fairly easy for anglers with limited mobility, the stream segment within the 135-acre Bloody Run County Park is well maintained and easy to walk. For overnight are plenty of fishing opportunities in the region. Bloody Run County Park visitors, 19 primitive camp sites are located within Bloody Run County Park. Campsites come with a fire ring, garbage cans, and access to drinking water and primitive toilets. S
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Rock, Algific Talus Slopes, Springs, Dolomite Boulders) are as much of the experience as North Cedar to fish the northern section along Ivory Road that is well maintained. Following the Maquoketa River south of Joy Springs County Park, public fishing easements provide anglers with downstream access for another 3.7 miles. However, much of this acreage is remote fishing the gurgling small streams cool, lush-green deep pools for brown trout. Creek WMA and requires considerable effort to fish. Anglers must be within 75 feet from the center line of the stream to stay within angler easements, which may require some wading and travel through P dense riparian vegetation and crumbling stream banks. If you are planning to fish the 2-mile stream section from Joy Springs County Park to 390th Street, please respect EWALU Camp & Retreat tree t P S h Center’s private property rights by avoiding all hiking trails and site facilities. Before gearing up for your fishing trip, it’s also helpful to know that the Maquoketa River is sand-bedded with some t 1 0 90th Street 9 P 1 segments having sparse habitat, so anglers often concentrate their effort near fallen trees, channel constrictions, and rock features that provide habitat for trout. Most of the Maquoketa River
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9 December during deer hunting season. The Maquoketa River is stocked regularly with catchable rainbow trout from April to October and annually with stream-reared fingerling brown trout in May. North Cedar Creek P Level B Maintenance Mossy Road Glen Trout Guide Creek 9. Turkey River & Big Spring Trout Hatchery 10. Buck Creek 11. South Cedar Creek e v A le END PUBLIC g END PUBLIC P FISHINGFISHING END PUBLIC a END PUBLIC Acknowledgements FISHINGFISHING E FISHINGFISHING END PUBLIC
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END PUBLIC Iowa’s END PUBLIC FISHINGFISHING RESTRICTIVE Iowa’s Only Level B REGULATION STREAM 1 of 3 t Catch & Release Only Stree Kid’s Trout Fishing Pond for P S Maintenance 2nd P END PUBLIC Trout Family Artificial Lures Only 32 Trout Hatcheries S children 15 and under 250th Street FISHINGFISHING Road in Iowa END PUBLIC FISHINGFISHING P BROOK TROUT are native to Iowa and are recognized by two main END PUBLIC LENGTH & TROUT: 1.0 mile stream with Rainbow Trout LENGTH & TROUT: 1.7 mile stream with Brook, Brown & Rainbow Trout LENGTH & TROUT: 0.5 mile stream with Brook, Brown & Rainbow Trout characteristics: vivid white lines on the front edge of the lower fins Hewett FISHINGFISHING Creek DESCRIPTION: The Big Spring Trout Hatchery is located along the Turkey River 10 miles northwest of Elkader. This state-owned facility receives rainbow fingerlings from the DESCRIPTION: Buck Creek is a good-sized stream located three miles northeast DESCRIPTION: South Cedar is a nice, easy-to-fish stream, located just outside and light wormy streaks on the back called vermiculations. state hatchery in Manchester, raises around 150,000 of them to stockable size, and later releases them into 16 trout streams throughout northeast Iowa. Water for the hatchery’s 24 of Garnavillo. For easy stream access, the upper segment within the 103-acre Buck Creek of Garnavillo in a tucked away valley. Roadside parking next to the bridge allows you BROWN TROUT are brown with silvery sides and obvious Ensign raceways and four earthen ponds is supplied from Big Spring, Iowa’s largest spring. Flow from this spring usually ranges from 20,000 to 30,000 gallons per minute (GPM), but can Park offers mowed trail and non-electric camping. This woodland, with its large hard access to the water and the option of walking up or down stream. South Cedar Creek itself black spots outlined by orange coloration. They have a Hollow exceed 150,000 GPM. Though you may not get the solitude that fishing private water provides, you just might experience amazing trout fishing in terms of both quantity and average maples and walnuts, Canada yew and Balsam fir, provides ideal habitat to spot turkey, flows through pasture land until it intersects Jigsaw Road, where it begins to run parallel square tail, and a lower jaw that juts out ahead of their WMA ad Ro ald upper jaw. Males, during the breeding season, often END PUBLIC eb fish size. Recently completed hatchery renovations include an improved angler access trail along the Turkey River, a pond at the entrance that is open for public fishing, and a kid’s deer, and numerous bird species while angling. The lower access along 250th Street is the to a steep wooded hillside. This southern section of stream (showcased above with the red FISHING S FISHING exhibit vivid yellow to reddish-yellow colors along the pond for young anglers 15 and under (kids must be accompanied by a licensed adult) that are both stocked with rainbow trout. Trout are stocked in the Turkey River three times a site of a historic brick sawmill. Here, anglers must walk a short distance alongside cows mowed trail) is easy to walk and fish for trout. Though South Cedar Creek is not cold enough
LENGTH & TROUT: 1.3 mile stream with self-sustaining Brown Trout week, including most Saturdays from April 1 through the end of October. The hatchery grounds and Turkey River are open to the public seven days a week year-round. Special tours, as they graze down underbrush. Buck Creek is stocked April, May, June, September and to be stocked year-long, the stream is stocked unannounced on a weekly basis in April, belly region and a sharply hooked lower mandible. DESCRIPTION: Hewett Creek (aka Ensign Hollow) supports a moderate density trout fishing information, and licenses are available at the Information Center & DNR office. Visitors to the trout hatchery can also feed the trout, picnic, launch a canoe into the Turkey October with catchable 10-12 inch rainbow trout. Fingerling brown trout were stocked until May, June, September and October with catchable 10-12 inch rainbow trout. French Creek RAINBOW TROUT are olive to greenish-blue over most of brown trout population (most in the 6-10 inch range) that sustains itself through natural River, or camp at the Big Spring or Frieden Park Campground, both of which are small non-electric campgrounds located close to the hatchery. 2015 and now can be found reproducing naturally. fingerling brown trout have also been stocked annually since 2006. the upper body, fading to a silvery-white along the belly. They reproduction. This stream is one of Iowa’s special regulations streams, meaning that anglers are most easily separated from the other trout species by the must use artificial lures only, and follow a strict catch-and-release policy for all trout. Anglers strikingly prominent pink-red horizontal stripe that extends down should be aware that stream access along shorelines within the WMA can be very weedy, Paved Roads Mowed Trail (MT) Blaze Your Own Trail (BYOT) Pasture 9 Campground P Parking Access Shelter Spring Fire Pit Residential House Cow Pasture Restroom each side of the fish and the small black spots on the sides, back, making Spring and Fall the best times to visit this very narrow stream. Trout Stream Map Legend Hiking Trail MT Stream Crossing BYOT Stream Crossing Handicapped Access Public Land Pedestrian Bridge Picnic Area Trout Water S Trout Stile Cabin/Lodging Livestock Fence Bike Trail dorsal and caudal fins.