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Fogle Lake (Ringgold): Largemouth bass fishing is fair for midsized fish near the flooded timber. A few channel catfish are being picked up using cut baits or liver.

Lake of Three Fires (Taylor): Largemouth bass can be caught from structure or the edges of the lotus beds in 3 to 6 feet of water. Channel catfish can be caught from the shoreline in less than 6 feet of water using cut baits.

Icaria (Adams): Channel catfish are being caught using cut bullheads through the evening hours. The largemouth bass are biting on crankbaits and spinners. Most of the fish are being caught near the tree piles. The bullheads are biting well on night crawlers. Water clarity is about 4 ½ feet at the dam.

Three Mile Lake (Union): Water clarity is about 3 feet at the dam and the upper end has a green algae bloom. Largemouth bass are being caught near structure or flooded timber. A few suspended crappies, wipers, and walleye can be caught from roadway between the ramps. Channel catfish have been picked up using cut baits near the rock mound at mid-lake.

Twelve Mile Lake (Union): Several mid-sized largemouth bass are being caught from the flooded timber in 4 to 10 feet of water using crankbaits or spinners. Anglers can catch some small to mid-sized walleyes from the old road. Bullheads are biting well on night crawlers anywhere in the lake. Water clarity is at about 4 feet near the dam.

Green Valley (Union): The water level is drained down to 12 feet and will be held there through the fall and winter. Boating access is possible using the main ramp but not encouraged. Extreme care must be used during launching and loading. Water clarity is about 3 feet. Channel catfish fishing has been spotty with varied results. Cut pieces of bluegills or bullheads seem to be the most successful. Some of the higher points or the face of the dam are easily accessible.

West Lake Osceola (Clarke): Largemouth bass have been caught from the flooded trees just off-shore in about 6 feet of water.

Don Williams (Boone): Crappie fishing has slowed with a few fish being caught. Catfish can still be caught on chicken liver, shrimp or stink bait.

Big Creek (Polk): Crappie fishing has slowed, but some suspended crappies are still being caught drifting jigs or minnows under a bobber out in the main lake. Catfish are being caught on cut bait and stink bait.

Raccoon River (Dallas): Channel catfish are being caught on cut bait or stink bait. Some flatheads are being caught fishing live green sunfish or bullheads.

Saylorville Lake (Polk): Some white bass are being caught below the Big Creek spillway. Better catches of white bass are coming from out in the main lake trolling or jigging minnows. Catfish are biting drifting cut bait or shad.

Hickory Grove (Story): Bluegill fishing is good using small pieces of night crawler or a small jig fished 8 to 10 feet down in the deeper portions of the lake. A few crappies are being caught trolling or drifting jigs. Catfish are biting on cut bait and stink bait.

Lake Ahquabi and Hooper (Warren): Bluegill and crappie bite is still slow. Bass and catfish are still being caught.

Des Moines River (Polk and Boone): Limits of catfish are being caught on stink baits. As the water cools walleye fishing will pick up using 1/16 to 1/8 ounce jig and half night crawler.

Viking Lake (Montgomery): Viking Lake was renovated in the fall of 2006. The lake refilled and was restocked with largemouth bass, bluegill, red ear sunfish and channel catfish in the spring of 2007. Anglers can expect to catch largemouth bass up to 15 inches, bluegills 6 to 7 inches, and catfish 16 to 19 inches. Expect fish to grow rapidly in this newly renovated lake.

Lake Manawa (Pottawattamie): Catfish are fair to good using crawdads and shrimp. A few crappies have been caught on north east part of lake around boat docks. Fishing for wipers is fair. Willow Lake (Harrison): Channel catfish has been fair using liver. A few bluegills are being caught over the deep brush piles.

Meadow Lake (Adair): Meadow is open to fishing, however the lake has been lowered 8 feet and the boat ramp is not usable. Habitat improvements are scheduled for this fall and winter.

Orient (Adair): Catfish is fair using liver.

Greenfield (Adair): Bass fishing is fair using plastic baits around cedar tree piles. Bluegills are fair drifting small jigs and around jetties. A few catfish are being caught on liver.

Mormon Trail (Adair): Fishing for channel catfish has been good in the evenings using liver and cut bait.

Lake Anita (Cass): Crappie fishing is good for 8 to 9-inch fish drifting a small white jig or anchored near structure. Schools of crappie have scattered around the lake and when anglers find the schools, they are able to catch quite a few. Bluegill fishing is fair and few are being caught while drifting for crappies or casting around the weed lines. Bass fishing is fair using plastic baits around rocks and along the road bed during the day.

Arrowhead Lake (Pottawattamie): Largemouth bass are being caught using plastic baits around structure. Channel catfish is fair using liver.

Prairie Rose Lake (Shelby): Channel catfish is fair using liver and stink bait.

Middle Raccoon River (Guthrie): A few bluegills and crappies are being caught below the Lennon Mills Dam. Conditions are favorable for floating the catch and release stretch for smallmouth bass from Lennon Mills Dam to Redfield.

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