This, my friend, is a story as old as time, and anyone with some critical thinking skills can read the writing on the wall. Hopefully, history proves me wrong, that would be nice, but very doubtful.

The Iowa DNR and the Governor’s office have been the bane of Iowa Outdoors for a long time, and we’ve all paid the price and continue to do so. Sometimes I feel like I’m living in a real-life Netflix series about a cadre of people who are literally trying to destroy the land we live on and the water we drink, all while the Tahoe-driving, Starbucks-drinking lemmings go about their business unaware.

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Tired of all the politics and hubbub of Des Monies life? Need to be reminded that some of Iowa’s water is less polluted than others? If so, then you should head to NE Iowa in search of beautiful fall hiking down in the valleys where the cold clear streams run clean and the trout are just waiting to jump out of the water for you.

Even if you are no fisher, the hiking along is worth it. I caught the brood rainbow trout of a lifetime at Bear Creek in the Iowa Driftless. With stops at Sny McGill, Buck Creek, and Mink Creek, it was a weekend to remember.