Ralph Loos

Bass anglers who frequent Du Quoin City Lake will have to navigate new regulations this spring.
Following a sampling of the lake this past fall, DNR announced, “Given that largemouth bass abundance is relatively low, but size structure and growth are favorable, regulations will be changing to a reduced creel limit of 3 fish per day and a 15-inch minimum length limit, effective April 1, 2024.”

The Illinois DNR mostly has scaled back on the stocking of northern pike, but Wolf Lake’s status as a solid pike lake makes it an exception.
In 2023, biologists stocked 964 northerns in Wolf – the young toothy fish each measuring 8 to 10 inches.