The popular Iowa DNR online interactive fishing atlas has been updated to include DNR managed lakes, community fishing ponds, hundreds of miles of Iowa rivers including the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and miles of trout streams.
New search features allow anglers to search by waterbody and quickly zoom in to find lake contours, fishing structures, river bends, and trout stream riffles with aerial imagery.
This mobile-friendly atlas will sync with your current GPS location to help you navigate a river segment and find specific lake contours, fish structure locations, and amenities such as fish cleaning stations.
“Anglers preferring a paper map can easily create a custom map with the new print tool,” explains Lewis Bruce, DNR fisheries research biologist. “You can print a small area of a lake or an entire river segment to identify fish structures in lakes or a trout stream segment.“
Go to https://programs.iowadnr.gov/maps/fishingatlas to plan your next fishing adventure. You can also find the fishing atlas on the free Go Outdoors Iowa App.
“Anglers can view the fishing atlas on both desktop computers and mobile devices,” said Lewis. “Making it the perfect tool for every angler throughout all fishing seasons.”