Catfish are still king in Canton Lake, as samplings show that blue, flathead, and channel cats continue to do well in the 250-acre body of water.
Well, maybe you haven’t heard – though if you are a bass angler in the state, I doubt it’s possible you don’t already know exactly what happened on Lake Murphysboro in 2022. Somebody landed an
An alarming aside to DNR’s most recent report on Braidwood is that the top largemouths caught the previous year, in 2021, were 7.8 and 7.25 pounds, respectively.
Fishing – especially bass fishing – in both Centralia-area lakes is very good. Centralia Lake has a maximum depth of 23 feet, and a mean depth of 10 feet.
A 10-pound largemouth bass was caught and weighed-in by a tournament angler on Cedar Lake in 2022.
That monster did not come as a surprise to regulars at the southern Illinois lake – or
Nippersink and Fox lakes to the north often are considered one and the same since they join. Nippersink contains 420 acres and is a connecting body of water between Fox, Grass, and Pistakee.
The lake’s muskie population continues to hold its own.
Changes in the bass population is credited to the fact that the lake itself is changing.
And anecdotes shared by anglers point to even more good news on the bass front.
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