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Fly fishing in Iowa.

Live flows, rules, access maps and nearby guides.

  • 62waters
  • 5with a live gauge
  • 61designated
A lone fly angler wades a dark, slow northern river lined with spruce and birch
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Fly fishing on the Äkäsjoki river, Finland. Photo: Heikki Immonen, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

62 fly-fishing waters in Iowa have a page here, 5 with a live USGS flow gauge and 61 with an official agency designation (such as Wild Trout Water or Special-regulation trout water).

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1 fly-fishing guide and 1 fly shop in Iowa are listed, unclaimed unless marked.

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62 Iowa rivers, creeks, lakes and flats with a page: each with its official agency designations and their source, live USGS flow where a gauge exists, the state’s regulations and access map, and the guides and shops nearby. Waters that cross into Iowa from a neighbouring state are included.

A Iowa water is here because the state agency lists it under an official designation, because guides and shops in our directories name it on their own websites, or because a live USGS gauge sits on a river a guide names. Species appear only where an agency page states them. “Most fished first” ranks by designations and by how many guide and shop websites name the water.

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