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Mastering Summer Catfish

Iowa Sportsman July 2025

This Issue Brings You:

  • Mastering Summer Catfish
  • Fishing Iowa: Iowa Hot Spots
  • Do It Yourself – Iowa Kill Plots
  • Introducing Youth to Shooting Sports
  • Whitetails 365 – Drought, Deer & Looming Threat of EHD
  • County Spotlight: Iowa Fishing Destinations
  • Blind Buyers Guide: Clear Sight Hunting Blinds

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Iowa Ice Hot Spots for Crappie

Iowa Ice Hot Spots for Crappie By Ben Leal At the time of this writing Iowa was experiencing one of the warmest winters that I’ve seen in the sixteen plus years of living here. Southern and Central Iowa ponds, lakes, and reservoirs are all ice free. Northern Iowa is starting to see some skim ice, […]

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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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Featured Story

10 Killer Big Buck Bow Hunting Ambushes

Why do top notch hunters shoot quality mature deer year after year? Sure they scout, don’t shoot young bucks, maintain their land, pay attention to the wind, plant food plots, are in big buck country, ect. Yes all of those and many more reasons can attribute to better chances of shooting bigger bucks consistently. However do you know the most important reason why people shoot big deer year after year? Because they place their stands in locations where big bucks like to frequent…it really is that simple. They are in the right place at the right time. You will never consistently shoot mature deer if you are not putting your tree stands in the proper locations.

Whitetails are creatures of habit and instinct, they do everything for a purpose and that is actually a good thing for us hunters. If we know what they like to do, what they don’t like to do, and how they navigate their day then we can key in on certain geographical locations on our properties and ambush an unsuspecting bruiser.

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The Iowa Sportsman website and magazine are Iowa’s only privately owned media sources catering to hunters, anglers, and outdoor enthusiasts here in Iowa. Simply put, we are unlike other Iowa outdoor media sources: All our staff is from Iowa, from our publisher to our writers. We actually follow through on what we advertise; we provide knowledgeable content from people who know the industry or sport discussed.