The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is updating its fishing atlas this week to make it more compatible with mobile and other devices. Fisheries research biologist Lewis Bruce says you can use it to plan your trip by asking it to find fishing spots near your location.
Once you get to your fishing spot it will use GPS to give you information to help find fish.
Bruce says you can also look up your fishing spot and print out maps if you are going to a location where a cell phone signal isn’t good.
He says you can print off the entire stretch of a stream or the entire lake or just print out a cove where you’re going to be fishing. Bruce says the fishing atlas can help anyone, regardless of their experience fishing.
He says there’s one goal for the atlas.
Bruce says you can find it on the DNR website or just search on Google for the Iowa DNR fishing atlas. The fishing atlas update is expected to be completed by this Thursday, May 14th.
