Lake Profiles
Rice Lake summer fishing can be an ‘adventure’ in Fulton County, Ill.
Predators create an attraction at the Rice Lake complex, with both northern pike and alligator gars swimming – and eating – in the collection of lakes and backwaters near the Illinois River in Fulton County.<br
Artist Lake: fishing a popular puddle on Long Island
It’s actually labeled a kettlehole lake, the product of melting chunks of partially buried glacial ice a long, long, long, time ago. There is no inlet or outlet to its 30 acres, an acreage which
Size of Rice Lake’s muskies runs a bit above average in Wisconsin’s Barron County
The Wisconsin DNR’s Barron County fisheries crew ran a two-year muskie assessment on Rice Lake in 2022 and 2023. A low to moderate density population with good size structure was present in Rice Lake.
Big Marine Lake in Washington County is one of Minnesota’s best east metro lakes for panfish, bass
Even though Big Marine Lake is located in the heart of the Twin Cities east metro, its physical features might give you that “up-north” feel.
Diverse fishery, camping await at Sugarloaf Lake in Michigan’s Washtenaw County
Sugarloaf is a relatively oval-shaped lake nestled in west-central Washtenaw County inside the Waterloo Recreation Area. It features 205 acres of surface area. The maximum depth is 20 feet, in a hole in the middle
Cowan Lake in Ohio’s Clinton County is productive for saugeyes, panfish
Cowan Lake, in a state park of the same name outside of Wilmington, is a scenic lake in southwest Ohio and the fishing is fairly good at Cowan.
And, the angling should only get
Gifford Run offers wilderness trout experience in Clearfield County, Pa.
It might not be a wilderness experience, but it comes pretty darn close. That is how I would describe fishing the little gem called Gifford Run in Clearfield County.
Cullen lakes in Minnesota’s Crow Wing County provide prime ice-out slab crappie country
There’s an abundance of lakes throughout Crow Wing County that consistently produce respectable panfish. Among them are Middle Cullen and Upper Cullen, which aren’t necessarily known for kicking out huge panfish, but there certainly are
High water in southern Illinois doesn’t stall Rend Lake spring fishing for long
What is typically is a month of furious crappie and bass fishing for southern Illinois’s largest lake got off to a slow start due to early April rains.
Rend Lake officially crested at 413.67,
