Super User slonezp Posted June 17, 2016 Super User Posted June 17, 2016 2 hours ago, Bryant Williams said: Elgin here! Fox river is the home water Welcome. Just east of you in Streamwood Quote
stk Posted June 17, 2016 Posted June 17, 2016 13 hours ago, Junk Fisherman said: Fishing the kayak tournament? Jacksonville is one of my favorite lakes in the state. @Junk Fisherman Yeah, Been trying to find fishing reports at least to give some water conditions. Going to head down and prefish the saturday before. It's a lot of water to cover in a kayak. Quote
Super User QUAKEnSHAKE Posted June 18, 2016 Super User Posted June 18, 2016 Went to Shabbona today, it owned me, only a little bass after 4hours so took off from there and headed to a tollway pond in Rochelle did better with 8 bass and a nice 4-10 catfish in 2hours. Shab bass Tollway fish Oh and here is one from couple days ago at Four Lakes Winnebago Co. 2 Quote
Super User slonezp Posted June 18, 2016 Super User Posted June 18, 2016 Headed to Sturgeon Bay, with my dad and son for fathers day weekend, in 30 minutes. Hopefully I'll have something good to report 1 Quote
Super User slonezp Posted June 19, 2016 Super User Posted June 19, 2016 Big one for the day. Male, if i had to guess it was over 4lbs. Rest were all in the 1lb range. All caught on offshore structure. Strike king bonsai shad and swimjigs. We fished north of sturgeon bay today. Going to launch in Sturgeon Bay tomorrow. 5 Quote
beardown34 Posted June 19, 2016 Posted June 19, 2016 Learning to frog. Pretty fun. Not in love with how quickly Spro's take on water. Having luck with booyah pad crasher jr, kvd sexy frog, and scum frogs. Ordered a small live target to compare. 2 Quote
Super User slonezp Posted June 20, 2016 Super User Posted June 20, 2016 Big one in the pic went about 3+.Tough bite today. Only 1 spot held more than one fish. It had 2 lol. Otherwise it was one here one there with long breaks in berween bites. Did a lot of moving around today. Fished in the ship canal late morning to get out of the wind. Picked up some small largemouth, 2 juvenile pike and a juvenile musky. Also found some panfish which helped break the boredom. Drove up to sister bay in the afternoon and launched there to hit the spots we were at yesterday but was too difficult to fish because of the wind. Had to move close to shore to dosge the wind. Picked up a few more and called it a day. 3 Quote
cadman Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 Went out to Lake Beulah on Sunday. Fished for 6 hours and we got 7 fish. I got (2) 15"ers and my wife got a 14",15", (2) 16" and a 17-3/4" largemouth. She had a good day. Fishing was very tough. Pic of her 17-3/4" bass. 3 Quote
FordsnFishin Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 On 6/16/2016 at 11:42 AM, stk said: Hey, anyone from the central IL area? How is lake jacksonville? Any info would be great! Thanks in advance! - Tony I'm here in central IL. Mattoon area, around 45 minutes south of champaign. Where are you? 1 Quote
stk Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 13 hours ago, FordsnFishin said: I'm here in central IL. Mattoon area, around 45 minutes south of champaign. Where are you? Hey @FordsnFishin, I'm in Chicago. I've got a kayak tournament down at Lake Jacksonville and just doing some prep work. I will be down there Friday night and get some prefishing in on Saturday. Quote
Junk Fisherman Posted June 24, 2016 Posted June 24, 2016 On 6/22/2016 at 7:02 PM, FordsnFishin said: I'm here in central IL. Mattoon area, around 45 minutes south of champaign. Where are you? What made you move? Do you miss the Monee Reservoir? By the way this is Paul S or pswitzer or Bassin' Ted depending on what Chicagoland site you are on. Quote
Super User MarkH024 Posted June 26, 2016 Super User Posted June 26, 2016 Had to cure the itch today. Caught 3 in an hour. All on a @Siebert Outdoors brush dredge jig paired with a pit boss. 2 Quote
Tracker22 Posted June 26, 2016 Posted June 26, 2016 You see, I hate it when that happens...any time someone says Illinois, automatically all youse chit own people take over. You and your muskies and walleyes and small mouth! We have good largemouth down here in the better part of the state. 1 Quote
Skunked again Posted June 27, 2016 Posted June 27, 2016 Nice ones! I agree, the 51st state should be from I-80 to the North !!? 1 Quote
beardown34 Posted June 28, 2016 Posted June 28, 2016 Early evening buzzbait. I enjoyed the fish but was a little bummed / surprised it bent the wire arm of my first time out Cavitron buzzbait. 1 Quote
Super User slonezp Posted June 28, 2016 Super User Posted June 28, 2016 2 hours ago, beardown34 said: Early evening buzzbait. I enjoyed the fish but was a little bummed / surprised it bent the wire arm of my first time out Cavitron buzzbait. Cool pic Quote
beardown34 Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 1 hour ago, slonezp said: Cool pic thanks. i think i successfully un-sideways-ed the picture Quote
Skunked again Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 I had to look at it twice, looked like some kind of Amazon toothy fish at first. I've been wanting to go night fishing for a long time. Quote
papajoe222 Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 Someone is a bit salty. You could always take a drive up here and take advantage of the great fisheries we have available to us. Oh wait, I forgot, you guys can't handle driving up here. Looks like you can't handle a real boat either. 2 Quote
Tracker22 Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 50 minutes ago, papajoe222 said: Someone is a bit salty. You could always take a drive up here and take advantage of the great fisheries we have available to us. Oh wait, I forgot, you guys can't handle driving up here. Looks like you can't handle a real boat either. Yeah, your right and we can't handle the high taxes and drive by shootings either! Btw, my father died in my "real boat" thanks for asking.... Not really! Just poking fun! Oh I forgot you crusty Yankees don't have a sense of humor! ??? Oh, I forgot! They don't even sell ice augers down here!? 1 Quote
Nice_Bass Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 I am well south of I80 lol...and my personal best muskies came from well south of I80 as well! Evergreen and Kincaid. Kincaid is not great for size but still a few big ones in there and Evergreen I don't like to talk about publicly... Quote
Tracker22 Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 Shelbyville is the furthest north that I've fished. And I've never caught a Muskie or walleye in my life. Those Muskie look like something out of the Amazon! Quote
Super User MarkH024 Posted June 29, 2016 Super User Posted June 29, 2016 Get up to Canada. It's a whole different perspective on Musky fishing. You see more fish than you will boat and it is exhilarating. I've seen some MONSTERS. My biggest IL Ski out of the Fox River was around the 32" mark. I know there has been 40+ taken but it is really rare. Green Bay is another Musky hot spot but you need to know where to go and what you're doing. I have not traveled south to fish Musky ever, perhaps I should try. 2 Quote
Tracker22 Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 Canada! That's a whole other country! You know us southern types don't have passports! Some of us never leave town.? 3 Quote
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