Fishing near Iowa City, IA

Set in Johnson County along the Iowa River, Iowa City anchors a stretch of water that runs south past the University of Iowa campus toward the Mississippi, with a lowhead dam at Burlington Street marking the river's last dam. The marquee draws are Coralville Reservoir, a 5,300-acre Corps flood-control lake just north of town, and Lake Macbride, a 940-acre lake near Solon that's among the state's most popular fishing destinations.