Spirit Lake, Iowa (KUOO) — The annual rite of spring is getting underway on the Iowa Great Lakes.
Mike Hawkins, a Regional Fisheries Management Supervisor for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says gillnetting operations for northern pike are getting underway on Big Spirit Lake.
Hawkins says the main gillnetting operations for walleye will likely get underway somewhere around April 8th or 10th, depending upon conditions. At that point, he says the fish hatchery in Orleans will once again be open additional hours for the public to view the operations.
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