Iowa fishing maps
Free interactive depth charts for 192 Iowa lakes and rivers, 182 of them built on real state fisheries depth surveys. Open any water, pick your species, and see the spots worth fishing, why each one is good, and the best times to be there. No account needed to browse.
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Ranked guides: best largemouth bass lakes in Iowa · best smallmouth bass lakes in Iowa · best walleye lakes in Iowa · best white bass lakes in Iowa · best northern pike lakes in Iowa · best crappie lakes in Iowa · best bluegill lakes in Iowa · best channel catfish lakes in Iowa · best muskellunge lakes in Iowa · best yellow perch lakes in Iowa · best flathead catfish lakes in Iowa · best freshwater drum lakes in Iowa · best common carp lakes in Iowa
No boat? Bank and shore fishing in Iowa (120 waters with public access)
Most searched: West Lake (Osceola) depth map
Deepest lakes in Iowa
The deepest water mapped on DepthScout in Iowa is West Okoboji Lake at 135 ft (41 m). The ten deepest charts here:
| # | Water | Max depth | Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Okoboji Lake | 135 ft | survey |
| 2 | Atlantic Quarry Pond 4 | 80 ft | survey |
| 3 | Brushy Creek Lake | 72 ft | survey |
| 4 | Harold Getty Lake | 55 ft | survey |
| 5 | Mississippi River Pool 13 (Clinton) | 53 ft | survey |
| 6 | Big Creek Lake | 50 ft | survey |
| 7 | Pleasant Creek Lake | 50 ft | survey |
| 8 | Lost Grove Lake | 48 ft | survey |
| 9 | Three Mile Lake | 48 ft | survey |
| 10 | Lake Macbride | 45 ft | survey |
Iowa fishing by county
Adair (5) · Black Hawk (5) · Cass (6) · Dickinson (10) · Polk (5) · Pottawattamie (5) · Union (7)
What Iowa anglers fish for: channel catfish (122 waters) · largemouth bass (115 waters) · crappie (114 waters) · bluegill (113 waters) · walleye (107 waters) · yellow perch (105 waters) · white bass (44 waters) · smallmouth bass (40 waters)
- Arrowhead Lake 22 ft · survey
- Atlantic Quarry Pond 4 80 ft · survey
- Avenue of the Saints Pond 16 ft · survey
- Badger Creek Lake 16 ft · survey
- Beaver Lake 39 ft · survey
- Beeds Lake 22 ft · survey
- Big Creek Lake 50 ft · survey
- Big Hollow Lake 44 ft · survey
- Black Hawk Lake 20 ft · survey
- Black Hawk Pits 18 ft · survey
- Blue Lake 10 ft · survey
- Bluebill Lake 18 ft · survey
- Briggs Woods Lake 26 ft · survey
- Browns Lake 10 ft · survey
- Brushy Creek Lake 72 ft · survey
- Carter Lake 24 ft · survey
- Casey Lake (aka Hickory Hills Lake) 20 ft · survey
- Cedar River 10 ft
- Center Lake 16 ft · survey
- Clear Lake 22 ft · survey
- Cold Springs Lake 14 ft · survey
- Crawford Creek Impoundment 27 ft · survey
- Crystal Lake 18 ft · survey
- Des Moines River 11 ft
- Desoto Bend 24 ft · survey
- DeSoto Bend at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge 18 ft · survey
- Don Williams Lake 36 ft · survey
- East Lake (Osceola) 12 ft · survey
- East Okoboji Lake 20 ft · survey
- Eldred Sherwood Lake 21 ft · survey
- Elk Lake 5 ft · survey
- Five Island Lake 22 ft · survey
- Fogle Lake S.W.A. 24 ft · survey
- Fort Des Moines Pond 24 ft · survey
- George Wyth Lake 18 ft · survey
- Grays Lake 12 ft · survey
- Green Castle Lake 23 ft · survey
- Greenfield Lake 24 ft · survey
- Harold Getty Lake 55 ft · survey
- Hawthorn Lake 28 ft · survey
- Hickory Grove Lake 32 ft · survey
- Hooper Area Pond 18 ft · survey
- Ingham Lake 10 ft · survey
- Iowa Lake (Iowa Co.) 28 ft · survey
- Iowa River 8 ft
- Kent Park Lake 16 ft · survey
- Lacey Keosauqua State Park Lake 24 ft · survey
- Lake Ahquabi 18 ft · survey
- Lake Anita 30 ft · survey
- Lake Cornelia 20 ft · survey
- Lake Darling 18 ft · survey
- Lake Geode 39 ft · survey
- Lake Hendricks 14 ft · survey
- Lake Icaria 24 ft · survey
- Lake Keomah 18 ft · survey
- Lake Macbride 45 ft · survey
- Lake Manawa 21 ft · survey
- Lake Meyer 22 ft · survey
- Lake Miami 18 ft · survey
- Lake Miss (Tug Fork West) 18 ft · survey
- Lake of the Hills 20 ft · survey
- Lake of Three Fires 22 ft · survey
- Lake Pahoja 24 ft · survey
- Lake Sugema 24 ft · survey
- Lake Virginia 21 ft · survey
- Lake Wapello 32 ft · survey
- Little River Watershed Lake 32 ft · survey
- Little Spirit 5 ft · survey
- Little Wall Lake 12 ft · survey
- Lizard Lake 6 ft · survey
- Loch Ayr 17 ft · survey
- Loess Hills State Forest - Jones Creek 14 ft · survey
- Lost Grove Lake 48 ft · survey
- Lost Island Lake 12 ft · survey
- Lower Gar Lake 6 ft · survey
- Lower Pine Lake 16 ft · survey
- Maquoketa River 6 ft
- Mariposa Lake 18 ft · survey
- Meadow Lake 16 ft · survey
- Minnewashta Lake 14 ft · survey
- Mississippi River Pool 13 (Clinton) 53 ft · survey
- Mississippi River Pool 19 (Keokuk) 43 ft · survey
- Moorehead Park Pond 20 ft · survey
- Peterson Pit West 35 ft · survey
- Pickeral Lake 6 ft · survey
- Pleasant Creek Lake 50 ft · survey
- Prairie Park Fishery 37 ft · survey
- Prairie Rose Lake 22 ft · survey
- Railroad Lake 14 ft · survey
- Red Haw Lake 36 ft · survey
- Rice Lake 10 ft · survey
- Roberts Creek Lake 20 ft · survey
- Rock Creek Lake 16 ft · survey
- Rock Valley Pit 20 ft · survey
- Shell Rock River 8 ft
- Silver Lake (Dickinson) 8 ft · survey
- Silver Lake (Palo Alto) 6 ft · survey
- Silver Lake (Worth) 7 ft · survey
- Slip Bluff Lake 21 ft · survey
- Snyder Bend Lake 11 ft · survey
- South Twin Lake 5 ft · survey
- Spirit Lake 22 ft · survey
- Storm Lake (incl Little Storm Lake) 17 ft · survey
- Summit Lake 10 ft · survey
- Swan Lake 10 ft · survey
- Three Mile Lake 48 ft · survey
- Trumbull Lake 4 ft · survey
- Turkey River 9 ft
- Twelve Mile Creek Lake 40 ft · survey
- Union Grove Lake 12 ft · survey
- Upper Gar Lake 7 ft · survey
- Upper Iowa River 6 ft
- Upper Pine Lake 16 ft · survey
- Viking Lake 36 ft · survey
- Virgin Lake 6 ft · survey
- Volga Lake 20 ft · survey
- Wapsipinicon River 10 ft
- West Lake (Osceola) 15 ft · survey
- West Okoboji Lake 135 ft · survey
- West Swan Lake S.W.M.A. 5 ft · survey
- Willow Lake 22 ft · survey
- Yellow Smoke Park Lake 28 ft · survey
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