Statewide Iowa — While the harvest of corn and soybeans was taking place across Iowa’s fields, DNR Fisheries employees were conducting a harvest of their own.
Northeast Iowa regional fisheries supervisor, Mike Steuck, says they collect the eggs of the brown and brook trout in October and November from Iowa streams.
They do collect the eggs from the naturally reproducing brook trout from streams, and also have rainbow trout kept at the hatcheries to be used for stream stocking.
The growing fish from all three types of trout are kept at the hatcheries and fed and raised to be stocked.
Steuck says efforts to improve the water quality in Iowa’s streams have been paying off.
Trout thrive in the cooler waters of northeast Iowa, and they are a fish you can seek out any time of the year.
You need an Iowa fishing license and a trout stamp to fish for trout here. You can find out more about trout fishing on the DNR’s website.
