Lake Michigan: The northern harbors were seeing a decline in the amount of fish caught, but there are still browns and steelhead being caught. Spawn sacks under a float are working well as well as
Crab Orchard Lake: Catfish action has slowed somewhat. Bluegill action also has slowed, although some fish are still being caught along the rip rap on crickets and wax worms. Bass action is good on a
Lake Sara (Effingham): The crappie bite has been hot. The bait of choice is small jigs tipped with wax worms or spikes under floats. Skipping under the deeper docks or finding the submerged timber and
Fox River: The walleyes are slowing down with the cooler weather and have switched over to a minnow bite. Jig and minnow combinations as well as single hook and splitshot with a minnow fished in
By all accounts, the 2014 Lake Michigan fishing season was more disappointing than the Chicago Bears’ football season.
Regrets? Deer hunters had few during the two shotgun seasons.
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Illinois DNR announced today that Illinois deer hunters harvested a total of 24,717 deer during the recent second firearms weekend.
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