With the daytime outdoor temperatures continuing to be around the freezing mark, and ice fishing season isn’t quite here yet, there’s still opportunities for anglers to get in cold weather fishing.

Greene County Conservation Director Dan Towers says despite it being cold outside, there’s still lots of fishing to be had. One advantage for any level of angler is the low water levels in lakes and rivers. He points out that this is especially true with the Raccoon River.

“If you can find deep water in the river now there’s going to be fish in them, because there’s probably 80-percent of the river doesn’t have enough water in it to hold fish. And our fishing riffles, our five fishing riffles that we have scattered up and down (the river) that are public access areas are good because those scarrow out a hole below the rock riffle and there’s always deep water there. So those are some of the better places to fish, really.”

Towers notes this late in the season is great for walleye and small-mouth bass in the Raccoon River.