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This week on the Iowa Hunting & Fishing Report, host Aaron McKinney welcomes special guest Sean Rolling for an action-packed conversation! They dive into the importance of supporting local bait shops, share expert bowhunting techniques to sharpen your skills, and reveal where anglers are finding the hottest fishing action right now.

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Targeting Northern Pike on the Iowa Great Lakes

Targeting Northern Pikes on the Iowa Great Lakes The Iowa Great Lakes is an ice fishing destination for both Iowa anglers and out-of-staters. After all, there is great walleye fishing and panfishing (perch, bluegill and crappie). If an angler is interested, there are also shallows teeming with largemouth bass that will readily attack smaller panfish […]

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Creating the Right Cover

Creating the Right Cover: Whitetails 365

Creating the Right Cover: Whitetails 365 When I was a teenager, the farm I hunted exclusively was my grandpa’s 120 acres. It was filled with mature maples, oaks, and poplar. There was very little undergrowth, woody browse, or bedding cover. The thing is, I didn’t know it. I had no idea that the habitat was […]

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Chasing Northern Pike on the Ice

Chasing Pike on the Ice

Chasing Pike on the Ice When Chad Loreth moved to the Iowa Great Lakes area in 2005, he knew he was coming to a great year-round fishery. Loreth has enjoyed helping anglers, both veteran and novice, young and old, enjoy the fishery through his guide service, Iowa Great Lakes Outdoors, Inc. As much as he […]

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Ice Fishing Styles and Techniques

Ice Fishing Styles and Techniques

Ice Fishing Styles and Techniques Ice fishing… you mention that to any number of people from the Southern states, and they will look at you like you have lost your mind. I often post images of myself or my family members out on the ice catching any number and variety of fish. A video of […]

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Big Buck Profile: The 2025 Gandy Buck

Ok, this first big buck profile is a little self-serving in that it is of a buck that I personally took this past deer season. While it is likely not the “biggest” big buck that we will profile this year it is definitely one of my most special deer ever.

Turning a Dream into Reality

As has been noted in several articles since 2023, my family and I finally put together the means to purchase our very own piece of Iowa ground. “The 32,” as we call it, has become a passion project to see if we could take an unassuming piece of real estate and harvest a mature deer from there by giving him all he needs in the way of habitat. This year was the first year that the farm would be huntable in the state in which we intended due to construction projects over the past couple of seasons.

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