Walleye season closes Feb. 15 on Iowa Great Lakes 2/4/2025 12:00:00 PM View Count 1757 SPIRIT LAKE – The walleye fishing season on Spirit, East and West Okoboji lakes is open through Feb. 14. It will close after that date and reopens on May 3. These are the only Iowa lakes that have a closed season for walleye. For more information on fishing regulations, go to www.iowadnr.gov/fishing.
Walleye season closes Feb. 15 on Iowa Great Lakes 2/6/2024 11:59:00 AM View Count 3905 SPIRIT LAKE – The walleye fishing season on Spirit, East and West Okoboji lakes is open through Feb. 14. It will close after that date and reopens on May 4. These are the only Iowa lakes that have a closed season for walleye.
Walleye season closes Feb. 15 on Iowa Great Lakes 2/7/2023 8:22:00 PM View Count 6541 SPIRIT LAKE – The walleye fishing season on Spirit, East and West Okoboji lakes is open through Feb. 14.
DNR urges caution on the ice after snowmobile, ATV go through on the Okobojis 1/14/2022 3:45:00 PM View Count 1809 SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is encouraging ice anglers and snowmobilers to use caution when going out on the ice after a snowmobile and an ATV broke through the ice on West Okoboji Lake and East Okoboji Lake Thursday night.
Walleye season opens May 1 on Iowa’s Great Lakes 4/20/2021 3:24:00 PM View Count 2993 The 145th walleye fishing season officially opens May 1 at Spirit Lake, East and West Okoboji lakes.
Iowa DNR and local partners to manage the invasive curlyleaf pondweed at Iowa Great Lakes 3/31/2020 12:42:00 PM View Count 2977 Spirit Lake, Iowa - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), working with the East Okoboji Lakes Improvement Corporation (EOLIC), will start the first phase of the curlyleaf pondweed management strategy for the Iowa Great Lakes in April.
Late ice delays curlyleaf pondweed growth in Iowa Great Lakes 5/22/2018 11:43:00 AM View Count 3758 SPIRIT LAKE - The record breaking late ice on the Iowa Great Lakes delayed curlyleaf pondweed growth in the Iowa Great Lakes, but it will top out in portions of East Okoboji Lake and other lakes this week.
Public meeting to discuss Iowa Great Lakes curlyleaf pondweed management plans 9/19/2017 2:30:00 PM View Count 4782 SPIRIT LAKE - Recommendations to manage the invasive curlyleaf pondweed at East Okoboji Lake and Lower Gar Lake will be presented at a public meeting at 6:30 p.m., Sept. 28, at the Sami Bedell Center for the Performing Arts on the Spirit Lake High School campus.