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Jaxson Heikens and Rylie Wittrock earned first-place medalist honors while leading the Harris-Lake Park boys and girls golf teams in a War Eagle Conference home meet with Remsen St. Mary’s on Thursday, May 6. The Harris-Lake Park boys defeated the Hawks 162-190, while the girls fell 211-214...

Despite being a little shorthanded, the Spirit Lake-Okoboji girls tennis team earned a dominant Lakes Conference home win over Estherville Lincoln Central on Thursday, May 6. SL-O topped the Midgets 8-1 at Speier Park. “The team was without the services of Sophia Butler tonight as she is nursing at turf toe injury,” SL-O coach Bob O’Hara said. ...

The Spirit Lake Park-Okoboji boys soccer team earned a home victory over Unity Christian on Monday, May 10. SLP-O defeated the Knights 5-2 on Senior Night in Milford. “We kicked our attack into another gear midway through the first half, putting up three goals before halftime,” SLP-O coach Alan Ditsworth said. ...

The Spirit Lake-Okoboji boys tennis team earned a convincing conference victory over Cherokee on Tuesday, May 4. SL-O topped the Braves 8-1 at Speier Park. “Considering all of the tennis the guys have played the last 10 days, they looked very strong today,” SL-O coach Dan Taylor said. ...

The Spirit Lake boys golf team placed second in the Lakes Conference tournament held Monday, May 10 at Brooks Golf Club in Okoboji. The Indians carded a combined score of 321 to finish 11 strokes off the pace set by champion Spencer (310). Spirit Lake Jackson Laven won the individual title, carding a 74 to best Spencer’s Kaden Miller and Spirit Lake teammate Mason Weeks by one stroke...

The Spirit Lake Park-Okoboji boys soccer team dropped a narrow 1-0 home loss to sixth-ranked Storm Lake on Thursday, May 6. The loss snapped a three match win streak for SLP-O. The Tornadoes’ lone goal came in the first half, as Fernando Reyes connected on the go-ahead score...

The Harris-Lake Park boys golf team proved to be the class of the War Eagle Conference with a first-place finish at the conference tournament held Monday, May 10 at Sioux Center. The Wolves edged runner-up Unity Christian by just two strokes. Jaxson Heikens won the individual tournament title for the Wolves, carding a 2-over-par round of 73. ...

The Spirit Lake Park-Okoboji girls soccer team dropped a road trip to Unity Christian on Monday, May 10. SLP-O fell 6-0 to the Knights in Orange City. Unity Christian scored two goals in the first half and four goals in the second while holding SLP-O off the board...

This year’s walleye opener on the Iowa Great Lakes was a record-breaker with 2,246 anglers registered from a total of 20 states. Although none of the tagged walleyes were caught, there was still a lot of action for a wide range of game fish. Listed below are the winners in each of the categories:...

Through my 40-plus years of working in the fishing industry as a fishing writer, fishing guide, fishing instructor, tournament angler, seminar speaker, radio and television show host, I’ve had the good fortune to fish and hang out with some very memorable people. Some were well known, some not so much. Almost all were wonderful people. It’s my privilege to share some of those memories here on Reel-Times...

Anglers simply love crappie and big crappie. Fish over 14 inches are simply a special fish. In all our travels, we encounter a lot of different fish and truthfully… we love them all. Every fish has a fan, and we never met a fish we didn’t like but if there is one fish that just seems to create an infatuated obsession across the Midwest, that fish might be a big slab crappie...

It's as predictable as May flowers - from border to border, the Wildlife Baby Season has arrived in Iowa. From now until at least mid-June, DNR field offices across the state will be inundated with hundreds of phone calls and scores of deliveries regarding "orphaned wildlife."...