Given the current conditions, ice fishing season is likely over. Chad Dolan is an Iowa Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist stationed at Lake Darling. The lake currently has areas of open water, so his advice is to stay off any ice that remains. Dolan says the quality of the ice was already questionable prior to the recent warm-up. Anglers can now look forward to fishing from the shore or by boat. Dolan explains most of the fish in the lake were stocked last year, so they’re on the smaller side, but during heavy rain events some larger fish have made their way to the lake from ponds in the watershed.