There’s been a 13 percent drop in the number of state fishing licenses sold in Iowa for this year compared to last year’s surge, but Jeff Kopaska  of the Iowa Department of Natural Resource says in 2020, about 390-thousand people had an active Iowa fishing license. That’s the most sold in a single year in THIS century. As temperatures start dropping in the fall, Kopaska suggests fishing opportunities may heat up.

The high point for fishing license sales in Iowa was in the 1970s, when as many as half a million were sold in a year.