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Fogle Lake (Ringgold): A few bluegills are being caught from the shallows at dusk. Channel catfish are biting on stink bait. Water level is normal and clarity is about 3 1/2 feet.

Lake of Three Fires (Taylor): Several bluegills have been caught at the east end of the dam on night crawlers. Largemouth bass can be caught from structure. Channel catfish can be caught in the bays. Water level is normal and clarity is about 3 1/2 feet at the dam.

Icaria (Adams): A few walleyes have been picked up on small twister tails or small crankbaits. Channel catfish are biting in the shallow bays and riprap. Water level is normal and clarity is about 2 ½ feet.

Three Mile Lake (Union): The lake level is normal. Water clarity is about 3 ½ feet at the dam. A few bluegills are biting just off shore near structure on night crawlers. Some wipers and walleyes have been caught on small crankbaits. Channel catfish have been biting on stink bait.

Twelve Mile Lake (Union): The lake level is normal. Walleye fishing is good for mid-sized fish on crankbaits over the rocky areas or steep drop-offs. A few nice bluegills are being caught. Many small to mid-sized largemouth bass have been caught from the near-shore structure. Channel catfish are in the rocks. Water clarity is at least 5 feet near the dam.

Green Valley (Union): The water control valve was opened this week to start draining 12 feet of water off the lake. Water level is expected to be within 2 feet of full for the next seven days. Full boating access should be possible and all ramps usable. Water clarity is about 2 1/2 feet. Several channel catfish have been caught from the shallow bays on stink bait. Most are between 2 and 5 pounds. Bluegills are caught occasionally near the tree piles on night crawlers.

Nine Eagles (Decatur): Water clarity is about 4 ½ feet. Largemouth bass fishing is good for mid-sized fish on the outside of the weed line.

West Osceola (Clarke): Several real nice largemouth bass can be caught from the shoreline structure around the entire lake.

Don Williams (Boone): Largemouth bass and crappie are biting and the best time to fish is right before dark. Use jigs for the crappies and artificial worms for the bass.

Big Creek (Polk): Bluegills are biting on night crawlers under a bobber in shallow water and crappies are biting on minnows fished under a bobber. Walleyes are biting, but sorting is needed for fish above the 15-inch minimum length limit.

Beaver Lake (Dallas): Bluegills are being caught on worms and catfish on cut bait.

Saylorville Lake (Polk): Water is dropping about a foot a day. White bass are still being caught at the pump station and below the dam. Cherry Glen high water, Sandpiper high water, and both Lake View ramps are all open. The dam road has opened and the tail waters are open, too.

Red Rock (Marion): Accesses are open. The Elk Rock, Cordova, White Breast, and Marina boat ramps are open. White bass are really biting. Best spots are below the dam, Brush Creek Bridge and Teader Creek Bay. Catfish are being caught on the old road bed.

Rock Creek (Jasper): The bluegill bite is slowing down with worms being the best bait. Catfish are still being caught on stink bait and cut bait. Crappies are biting on jigs in 6 to 8 feet of water.

Hickory Grove (Story): Bluegills are biting on a worm fished under a bobber. Crappies are being caught trolling or drifting small jigs or crankbaits. Some catfish are being caught on night crawlers or cut bait.

Easter Lake (Polk): Bluegills are biting on worms. Catfish are being caught on worms and shrimp. Lakes Ahquabi and Hooper (Warren): Shore fishing has been slow, but catfish have been biting on worms. Crappies and bluegills have been biting on tube jigs fished next to rock piles out of boats.

Mariposa (Jasper): Bluegills are biting on worms fished under a bobber. Catfish are biting on worms and chicken liver.

Anderson Area (Montgomery): Bluegill fishing is fair for 7 to 8-inch fish in the north pond along dam using small jigs and worms.

Hacklebarney (Montgomery): Bluegills are being caught along edge of vegetation with small black jigs tipped with worms. Catfish is fair along the dam using worms and crayfish.

Viking Lake (Montgomery): Viking Lake was renovated in the fall of 2006. The lake refilled and restocked with largemouth bass, bluegill, red ear sunfish and channel catfish in the spring of 2007. Anglers can expect to catch largemouth bass up to 15 inches, bluegills 6 to 7 inches, and catfish 14 to16 inches. Expect fish to grow rapidly in this newly renovated lake.

Lake Manawa (Pottawattamie): Catfish are still good on worms and shrimp. Walleye are being caught at night jigging twister tails tipped with a minnow. A few crappies are being caught around the docks and Boy Scout Island using large minnows with white tube jigs.

Willow Lake (Harrison): Bluegill fishing is good for 8-inch fish around the jetties. Channel is excellent using liver.

Orient (Adair): Catfish fishing is fair using liver.

Greenfield (Adair): Bass fishing is fair using plastic baits around cedar tree piles. Bluegills are fair drifting small jigs and around jetties. A few catfish are being caught on liver.

Lake Anita (Cass): Crappie fishing is fair for 7 to 8-inch fish along the dam and around cedar trees. Bluegills have slowed but a few are being caught along weed edges using small jigs and worms. Bass fishing is fair using plastic baits around rocks and along the road bed during the day. Catfishing is fair south of the beach using stink bait.

Littlefield Lake (Audubon): Catfish is good using night crawlers.

Arrowhead Lake (Pottawattamie): Largemouth bass is good casting plastic baits around jetties and underwater structure. Catfish is good on shrimp close to shore around rock.

Prairie Rose Lake (Shelby): Channel catfish is good using worms around the jetties. Carp are being caught along the campground shoreline. A few 6 to 8-pound flatheads are being caught using live bait.

Middle Raccoon River (Guthrie): Anglers are catching a few crappies below Lenon Mill Dam using minnows.

Farm Ponds: Anglers are catching bass and bluegills at some of the local ponds. Reminder: Be sure to ask landowner for permission before fishing.

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