Beeds Lake Fishing Guide, Franklin County, Iowa

• Overview

  Franklin County, Iowa, is where Beeds Lake sits. The ground round it is pine and birch. Around 96 acres of surface means several distinct areas to work. About 2.9 miles of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. You are 2.9 miles from Hampton. The big place round here is Des Moines, 83 miles distant. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Beeds Lake

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Built water gives depth close in, which suits a bank angler. Rip-rap along the wall holds fish that the open bank never does. Across Franklin County, recorded fish include bluegill, black bullhead and black crappie. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Read Beeds Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between 15°F in January and 73°F in July. Seasons are distinct, and each one fishes differently. Ice-out usually falls in early April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Open water usually runs from early April until about early December. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. The season on Beeds Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. A launch point is recorded some half a mile off. Expect a half a mile walk in from where the car goes. A recognised fishing spot is mapped about half a mile away. A picnic site half a mile off makes this workable with family in tow. Toilets show in mapping about half a mile away. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Lake Considine, 17 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Beeds Lake for certain.