Sand Lake Recreation Area

11/12/2025

06/04/2025

We are getting ready for Saturday!

06/04/2025

IT’S HERE!!! Free Fishing Weekend June 6, 7, 8 🎣
Iowa residents can try fishing without buying a license on June 6, 7 and 8 during Free Fishing Weekend. (All other regulations remain in place.)

03/12/2025

Trout will be stocked at Sand Lake on Friday, April 25 at approximately Noon!

05/15/2024

05/22/2023

Saturday, June 3, 2pm-4pm

06/30/2022

Just a reminder the use of fireworks is prohibited at all Marshall County Parks and Areas.

05/02/2022

We've wrapped up our spring trout stocking in community ponds. Now it's your turn to go do the catching.

Stocked locations here: iowadnr.gov/trout

📷: 26-inch trout caught by Jose Chavarria in Marshalltown; Dan Lopez photo

04/14/2022

Today the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, released 2,000 rainbow trout at Sand Lake as part of the IDNR's urban trout stocking program.

Fishing license and trout fee
Community trout stockings are supported by the sales of the trout fee. You need a valid fishing license and pay the trout fee to fish for or possess trout. The daily limit is five trout per licensed angler with a possession limit of 10. Children age 15 or younger can fish for trout without a fishing license and trout stamp if they are with a properly licensed adult, but they must limit their combined catch to the adult’s daily limit of five trout. The child can buy a trout fee which will allow them to catch their own limit. Once you buy your trout fee, you can fish for trout all year long at any of the community trout lakes or ponds and Northeast Iowa trout streams.

For more information on trout fishing in Iowa: https://www.iowadnr.gov/Fishing/Trout-Fishing