Iowa DNR & Ducks Unlimited to host an open house on the Spring Run Lily & Pleasant Lake Enhancements Project 9/18/2024 7:31:00 AM View Count 4908 SPIRIT LAKE - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Ducks Unlimited will host an open house on Sept. 24th, from 3:30-5:30 p.m., at the Maser Monarch Lodge, 22785 Nature Center Road, Okoboji, to discuss the Lily and Pleasant Lake Enhancement Project and 2024 fall construction.
Walleye season opens May 4 on Iowa’s Great Lakes 4/23/2024 12:10:00 PM View Count 2261 The 148th walleye fishing season officially opens May 4 at Spirit Lake, East and West Okoboji lakes.
Walleye season closes Feb. 15 on Iowa Great Lakes 2/6/2024 11:59:00 AM View Count 3674 SPIRIT LAKE – The walleye fishing season on Spirit, East and West Okoboji lakes is open through Feb. 14. It will close after that date and reopens on May 4. These are the only Iowa lakes that have a closed season for walleye.
Help prevent the spread of invasive aquatic plants around West Okoboji Lake 8/16/2023 7:23:00 AM View Count 2837 The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is asking for help to prevent the spread of Eurasian watermilfoil and brittle naiad around West Okoboji Lake.
Invasive aquatic plants confirmed at West Okoboji Lake 8/9/2023 7:28:00 AM View Count 3902 The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently discovered Eurasian watermilfoil growing throughout the canals near Miller’s Bay and The Harbor canals on West Okoboji Lake in Dickinson County. Brittle naiad was also found in the Triboji lagoon. No Eurasian watermilfoil or brittle naiad was found in the main lake of West Okoboji or the other lakes in the Iowa Great Lakes chain.
21-year-old man drowned Saturday on West Okoboji Lake 5/23/2023 1:23:00 PM View Count 7281 The Iowa Department to Natural Resources (DNR) is investigating a drowning Saturday afternoon on West Okoboji Lake, after Alexander Glover, 21, of Cedar Rapids, jumped off a pontoon and into the water in Miller's Bay.
Walleye season opens May 6 on Iowa’s Great Lakes 4/18/2023 4:20:00 PM View Count 4003 The 147th walleye fishing season officially opens May 6 at Spirit Lake, East and West Okoboji lakes.
Walleye season closes Feb. 15 on Iowa Great Lakes 2/7/2023 8:22:00 PM View Count 6440 SPIRIT LAKE – The walleye fishing season on Spirit, East and West Okoboji lakes is open through Feb. 14.
Walleye season opens May 7 on Iowa’s Great Lakes 4/19/2022 11:48:00 AM View Count 1983 The 146th walleye fishing season officially opens May 7 at Spirit Lake, East and West Okoboji lakes.
Walleye season closes Feb. 15 on Iowa Great Lakes 2/8/2022 1:23:00 PM View Count 1907 SPIRIT LAKE – The walleye fishing season on Spirit, East and West Okoboji lakes is open through Feb. 14. It will close after that date and reopens on May 7. These are the only Iowa lakes that have a closed season for walleye.
DNR urges caution on the ice after snowmobile, ATV go through on the Okobojis 1/14/2022 3:45:00 PM View Count 1691 SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is encouraging ice anglers and snowmobilers to use caution when going out on the ice after a snowmobile and an ATV broke through the ice on West Okoboji Lake and East Okoboji Lake Thursday night.
Boaters urged to use caution to avoid scour holes when loading and unloading 8/19/2021 1:28:00 PM View Count 2371 SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa - Iowa’s drought is impacting boaters on some of Iowa’s premier natural lakes.
Wetlands and prairies play important role in protecting West Okoboji Lake 7/28/2021 11:38:00 AM View Count 2499 Milford, Iowa - Garlock Slough Wetland Complex, on the southwest side of West Okoboji Lake, is a 900-acre mix of native remnant prairie, restored prairie, natural marsh and reconstructed wetlands protecting Iowa’s most valuable lake.
Walleye season opens May 1 on Iowa’s Great Lakes 4/20/2021 3:24:00 PM View Count 2873 The 145th walleye fishing season officially opens May 1 at Spirit Lake, East and West Okoboji lakes.
Walleye season closes Feb. 14 on Iowa Great Lakes 2/10/2021 6:52:00 AM View Count 2015 SPIRIT LAKE – The walleye fishing season on Spirit, East and West Okoboji lakes is open through Feb. 14. It will close after that date and reopens on May 1. These are the only Iowa lakes that have a closed season for walleye.
DNR makes arrest in boating hit and run on West Lake Okoboji 8/7/2020 2:04:00 PM View Count 3274 WEST LAKE OKOBOJI, Iowa – On Thursday August 6, 2020, DNR Conservation Officers located a damaged boat consistent with damage to the hit and run incident, which seriously injured Vaughn Wickham of Spirit Lake, Iowa on August 4, 2020.
Simply put, Cayler Prairie has it all 7/21/2020 12:34:00 PM View Count 4657 Standing on a vista overlooking the expansive Cayler Prairie, it’s easy to imagine bison - the icon of the open prairie - at home on this historic area.
Iowa DNR and local partners to manage the invasive curlyleaf pondweed at Iowa Great Lakes 3/31/2020 12:42:00 PM View Count 2885 Spirit Lake, Iowa - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), working with the East Okoboji Lakes Improvement Corporation (EOLIC), will start the first phase of the curlyleaf pondweed management strategy for the Iowa Great Lakes in April.
Iowa DNR, Imagine Iowa Great Lakes launch seawall repair project 9/24/2019 12:55:00 PM View Count 2977 Okoboji, Iowa – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Imagine Iowa Great Lakes began work this week to repair the seawall at Arnolds Park. The project will stabilize the foundation of the sidewalk and ultimately serve as a platform for the beautification work led by Imagine Iowa Great Lakes.
Walleye season opens May 4 on Iowa’s Great Lakes 4/23/2019 3:09:00 PM View Count 6889 The 143rd walleye fishing season officially opens May 4 at Spirit Lake, East and West Okoboji lakes.
Walleye season closes Feb. 14 on Iowa Great Lakes 1/29/2019 2:29:00 PM View Count 3122 SPIRIT LAKE – The walleye fishing season on Spirit, East and West Okoboji lakes is open through Feb. 14, 2019. It will close after that date and reopen on May 4, 2019. These are the only Iowa lakes that have a closed season for walleye.
DNR providing extra enforcement over 2019 Winter Games in Okoboji 1/24/2019 8:31:00 AM View Count 3399 OKOBOJI, Iowa - DNR conservation officers will be partnering with the Iowa State Patrol and the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office on a special enforcement project over the Winter Games at Okoboji this weekend.
Rainfall, high lake water levels causing lakeshore to collapse into Iowa’s Great Lakes 6/26/2018 11:54:00 AM View Count 10075 LAKE OKOBOJI -- Due to the tremendous amounts of rainfall that have inundated Dickinson County, the Iowa Great Lakes and surrounding lakes are experiencing rising lake levels. With these rising lake levels, property owners are reporting erosion damage to shorelines.
Late ice delays curlyleaf pondweed growth in Iowa Great Lakes 5/22/2018 11:43:00 AM View Count 3649 SPIRIT LAKE - The record breaking late ice on the Iowa Great Lakes delayed curlyleaf pondweed growth in the Iowa Great Lakes, but it will top out in portions of East Okoboji Lake and other lakes this week.
Walleye season opens May 5 on Iowa’s Great Lakes 4/24/2018 12:20:00 PM View Count 10228 The 142th walleye fishing season officially opens May 5 at Spirit Lake, East and West Okoboji lakes.
Walleye season closes Feb. 14 on Iowa Great Lakes 1/30/2018 1:57:00 PM View Count 4228 SPIRIT LAKE – The walleye fishing season on Spirit, East and West Okoboji lakes is open through Feb. 14, 2018. It will be closed after that date and reopens again on May 5, 2018. These are the only Iowa lakes that have a closed season for walleye.
Public meeting to discuss Iowa Great Lakes curlyleaf pondweed management plans 9/19/2017 2:30:00 PM View Count 4668 SPIRIT LAKE - Recommendations to manage the invasive curlyleaf pondweed at East Okoboji Lake and Lower Gar Lake will be presented at a public meeting at 6:30 p.m., Sept. 28, at the Sami Bedell Center for the Performing Arts on the Spirit Lake High School campus.
Gizzard Shad found in Iowa Great Lakes 8/29/2017 1:05:00 PM View Count 5488 SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) discovered 26, 3- to 5-inch gizzard shad, in East Okoboji Lake on August 11 as part of routine sampling.
Walleye season opens May 6 on Iowa’s Great Lakes 4/25/2017 12:29:00 PM View Count 10314 The 141st walleye fishing season officially opens May 6 at Spirit Lake, East and West Okoboji lakes.
West Okoboji: One of Only 3 Blue Water Lakes in the World? 7/12/2016 1:36:00 PM View Count 139700 For nearly a century, word has circulated that West Okoboji is one of only three blue water lakes in the world, the others being Lake Geneva in Switzerland and Lake Louise in Canada.
Limited Wastewater Discharge To West Lake Okoboji 5/4/2016 4:22:00 PM View Count 3949 SPIRIT LAKE – The Great Lakes Sanitary Sewer District discovered a wastewater discharge at 10:30 a.m. following an electrical failure at a N. Lagoon Street pumping station located in the city of Spirit Lake.
Wetlands Project Sinks Hole-in-one 3/5/2015 4:35:00 AM View Count 7203 The cackle of pheasants has returned along the north and west sides of Okoboji View Golf Course in Spirit Lake after a major watershed improvement project created wetlands and native prairie on 350 acres.