Shabbona: Look for crappies over the fish cribs and brush piles along the campground shoreline. Begin your search by setting your presentation half way down the water column. Best presentations include Mini-Mites and minnows. Bass
Devils’ Kitchen: Bluegills are spawning and are being caught in good numbers on wax worms and crickets. Crab Orchard Lake: Crappies still are spawning and can be caught over shallow cover on minnows or jigs.
Lake Taylorville: Crappie bite picking up on minnows. Bass slow. Banner Marsh: Crappies biting on minnows. Bass hitting chatterbaits and spinnerbaits. Newton Lake: Bass good. Some white bass were also reported. Catfish good. Spring Lake:
The hot, ice-out bite for walleyes and saugers on the region’s rivers can deliver all-day jigging action
It’s the perfect hunt on the perfect spring morning. The gobbler responds off the roost, and he’s coming. Your setup is ideal.
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A unique study on the effects of tournament-style fishing on nesting largemouth bass has thus far found no reason to close Illinois lakes to spring tournaments.
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