Scott Wolfe of School of Fish Charters emailed: The West winds that prevailed last week did their usual magic. SEE MORE. Water temp is in the mid 60s. the start of the summer patterns are just starting up. Dr. Atul Mallik emailed the photo above and this on Thursday: My son, Indra, was up for fishing Chicago River downtown today. Unexpected catches out of Chicago over the weekend. Before heat I was getting solid Smallmouth (19 3.6 lb) and a couple walleye in jigs with a crayfish trailer along with dark finesse baits and Rapala crainkbaits after heat I found some action using soft jerk baits and weightless on a 4/0 ewg hook. Small jigs tipped with a minnow or plastic working best. If you need a fishing licence you can purchase one directly from Chicago San Fishing License 24/7. God they are fun to catch at that size. Larry Jennings with a crappie from Lake Bloomington. Try around the Heidel Bar, Dartmouth Bay, Sandstone Point, and Blackbird Bay. Casting or trolling with spinners, bait and bobber, and fly-fishing are all popular fishing methods for chasing trout in Floras Lake. Ron Reynolds reported perch in at Burnham Harbor Monday morning. FISHING REPORT. Try swim baits, bladed jigs, and stick worms along the north shore and in and around the islands. HENNEPIN-HOPPER: It will be open on Monday, July 4. Playing Joes garage is bringing back great memories of back in the day. Discounted angler parking; $9 daily, if out by 10 a.m. It nearly inhaled it definitely a fish feeding up in the fall but I was able to remove the hooks safely and she swam off in great shape. Next gig is july 8t at Montrose beach dock. Northern Pike: Very Good-Good These fish seem to care little for Mayflies (though Im sure they wont pass up a chance to eat some!) Victor Blackful emailed the photo above and this: I love this time of the year when the leafs change color and the air becomes crisp. Some good catches of perch in 20 to 30 ft of water around the dune state park building also. Our weekends are filling up fast. White bass and crappie are showing up in the lower part of the river near Poygan. Make sure you take something for sea sickness, the waves can be a bit much. Jul 24, 2015 at 9:27 pm . Look for this bite to improve this weekend as water temps drop! Access permits and liability waivers are required. Green and white and Aqua spoons like Warrior Froggy and Hey Babe run over 90 feet down and Jimmy fly Mo rigs in white and yellow/orange on the bottom in 150 to 170 feet down produced. Im the King for a Night on the Southside!! Fly Fishing Forecast for Chicagon Lake, Michigan. POWERTON: Hours are 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The surrounding waters off Waukegan Harbor offer excellent Salmon and Trout fishing on Lake Michigan for you to enjoy an unsurpassed charter fishing experience, right in Chicago's own back yard. I prefer a leader lench of at least 24 inches. Tubes and drop shots are also still in play. Water temp is 73 degrees. They can be caught on purple or chartreuse plastic with a 1/32 oz jig. The action was good despite the cold front that had air temperatures at 47 and the water temperature at 69-73 in areas. B) Waukegan Harbor (in North Harbor basin only). District fisheries biologist Seth Love would like to hear from anglers on hybrid catches at Braidwood. Laurance Reed emailed the photo above and this from Wednesday: Well, the same-same strategy wasnt working, so I had to switch things up a bit. Best on top-water bucktails and small jerks with tails. Some top-water reports in the late hours on frogs, spiders and chug bugs. Ray Hinton sent the photo above and this: Good evening Dale , I hope all is well. 12:13pm - Nov 23,21. For guide parties, please call Dave Duwe at 608-883-2050. 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Jason Special One Le with a freshwater drum from a Chicago harbor. Continue reading. As always the best bait is smoke colored tube baits or slip bobber fished minnows. Click here for the Wisconsin DNRs report, usually on Tuesday or Wednesday. 301 Show detail Preview View more . In the next week or so, the bass will be schooled up and be very easy to catch. Anton will be the new owner and operator of Why Knot Chicago Fishing Charters. Illinois is leading the way. The bluegill bite has dissipated but I suspect it will return as the water cools down into the fifties. Everyday 6am-5 pm. We are averaging 8-12 fish per 6 hour trip. 5.2M. I fished the Red Banks Crappie tournament Saturday, 25 fish, 18 lbs-14.5 oz. Book your spring trip soon trophy fish await you and your crew. Best bite has been during the evening hours. Work the baits on mid-lake humps holding baitfish. BoRabb Williams texted the photo at the top on Monday and this: Good time to remind that we are in the final weeks of the cooling lakes being open. Look forward into making it a memorable experience. Paddle and Pole hosts the Berrien Springs Fish Ladder Camera. Use this forum for discussing and announcing tournaments. That is a September to remember. Access permits and liability waivers are required. Be patient and if you dont catch fish the first time try again. No reports or fishing questions please. Chubs, suckers on jigs for live bait. There were schools of shad within a short cast of the shoreline. Id lost 3 steelhead in a row that shook the trusty blue KO Wobbler while airborne or upon re-entry. Oct 03, 2014 at 7:44 pm. TRIBUNE PUBLISHING. John Gillespie show, "Waters & Woods" showed him and a guide last week pounding 7-15 lb. Jarrod told us to come back and do a morning trip and we would catch more fish! state natural resource reports. I talked to a local and he said that the salmon that were being caught were being caught downstream, closer to the lake. I prefer the chrome and blue chug bug. Tips & Tricks. Following this end of week cold snap (possible snow Friday AM) we will probably see a shift in fish movement as bait fish push out of the shallows and gamefish follow. Such a great and fun town for a family trip. The fish can be readily taken by either drop-shotting with small plastics, green pumpkins and small shiner color are the best or by nightcrawlers drifted with a small split shot. Caught a 1/2 dozen smallmouth mostly on hair jigs snapping retrieve back to boat. Bank access is very limited and most anglers fish from a boat. Mike Norris with a 5 1/2-pound smallmouth bass from Green Lake in Wisconsin. Join Community Grow Your Business. No stars. 1/8 oz jigs tipped with big leeches producing also in 10-14 slides outside spawn areas. Shallower lakes cool the fastest (but also warm up quicker) so surface readings ran from lows of 54 to average highs of 59-62 degrees. Average fish is about 4lbs. Look for the fish by the Village Supper Club or by Browns Channel. Originally a limestone quarry, the Palmisano Nature Park was converted into a public space in 2009. Try casting an umbrella rig parallel to and along weed edges in fourteen feet of water. Click for a list of Fishing Clubs. Show more. Locations that have produced the most fish are by Knollwood, Rainbow Point and the beach in Fontana. The smile says it all!!! Lakes under 24 max depth and Flowages with their moving, mixing water dont have the turn-over issues. 23.5K members. Please ensure to adhere to the fishing regulations for the state. Bait that is starting to be used are spawn sacs, medium or large shiner minnows and night crawlers. Rich Sleziak at Slezs Bait in Lake Station texted: Crappie in lake George in Hobart on crappie minnows. District fisheries biologist Seth Love would like to hear from anglers on hybrid catches at Braidwood. Pete Starshak. Lori Ralph at the Salmon Stop in Waukegan texted: Mainly gov.pier using shrimp, minnows, and some worms. We saw some big carp too. We couldn't control the weather, lol..but the experience was excellent. It can also be used for club announcements. Hartford Courant. Final fishing days are Heidecke (Oct. 11), LaSalle (Oct. 15) and Braidwood (Oct. 18). At 457 acres, Busse Reservoir is one of the largest fishing and boating waters in Cook County. Salmon fishing has been pretty good as well, anywhere from 60 to 160 feet, again a bit south. Sean Whippo with a northern pike from the Des Plaines River. Small to medium fatheads, as well as small feathered or plastic tailed jigs working well. Wasnt finding many fish on the edges of shorelines, but hooked into this nice walleye on a crankbait along a concrete wall at just about last light. By Seamus on 2/26/2023 6:24:31 PM Views (3) This afternoon as fishermen left there were mixed reports for Walleye. Nearby early catch-and-release sites are (Kankakee County): Rock Creek at Kankakee River SP; (Ogle): Pine Creek, White Pines Forest SP; (Jo Daviess): Apple River, Apple River Canyon SP. The perch bite is good now. The second method is lindy rigging jumbo leeches right around the weedline also in 18 ft of water. Capt. Fairly stabilized forecast with temps slowly warming for the 4th of July holiday weekend coming up. Meeting of the minds, Jason Special One Le (left) and Tim Spike Davis, while perch fishing at Montrose Harbor last week. The last 3 years our April and May customers have experienced a 95 percent limit catch ratio catching salmon and trout get your trips booked now both 247 and 247-2 have weekends and weekdays available. Deep bite best in 22-28. Ive been catching them by the Yacht Club or over by Browns Channel. Do it very early in the morning, we started at 6:00 am. Give Your Review. G. Peters. Anyone who has thrown spoons or spinners around warm water discharges on Lake Michigan for salmon and trout during the Winter has probably caught more shad than they can count. Maybe even dangerous? The abrupt departures of Patrick Kane and others in recent days have not only stripped the roster of its best talent but have also emotionally and psychologically affected those who remain. By Friday it seemed to improve some. Very aggressive. Sunday, wading in deeper pools produced 27 smallmouth which put me over my 500 goal for the year. Water was warm down to over 120 feet deep. Look for the fish by Browns Channel or by Willow Point. 06:38am - Dec 1,21. Evidently July and August are not the best times for steelhead and coho but we had a great time. Fishing all last week good in 65 to 85ft of water straight out of burns ditch and to the west fish 30ft down to the bottom. Stacey Greene at Park Bait at Montrose Harbor texted: I think the warmer weather may have slowed things down just a bit but from what I can tell and the reports Im getting there are still plenty of Salmon around, Kings & Coho. Scattered perch reports. Rich Sleziak at Slezs Bait in Lake Station texted the photo above and this: Weekend was good for perch for most this pic was Saturday morning. Capt. The water is still very cold and also can be quite rainy. The great actor plays a man of uncertain identity in whimsical and sharply written comedy. Largemouth bass fishing has slowed with the warmer weather. Art Sound Artist with a white bass from Island Lake. 17K subscribers in the AutoNewspaper community. Hard to wade without tripping over a rock, which I did! Summer Fishing Pattern. ILLINOIS EARLY CATCH-AND-RELEASE FALL TROUT. 3347. December . For guide parties, please call Dave Duwe at 262-728-8063. Should be a fun next few weeks. We start fishing early April this year as the last 3 years our salmon and trout fishing has been excellent and with the way this winter has gone we believe this spring the action is going to been fantastic for April and May book your trips now and both 247 and 247-2 have weekends and weekdays available. Vince Oppedisano with a Fox River smallmouth bass. The highlight was the Perch in shallow water. The fishing regulatory body for Illinois is Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Click here for the harvest areas. ET Mimi Boysens grandson with a smile and a bluegill from the Chain OLakes. A motion sickness pre trip, wasnt real bad but times of feeling a little queasy could be eliminated with some motion sickness medication. Otherwise, here are some basics: Foster (free street parking or pay lot); Montrose (now a mix of metered and free street parking); Belmont (pay lots on north and south sides); Diversey (pay lot or street parking); DuSable Harbor (pay lot or fishermans lot); Northerly Island/Burnham Harbor (meters, pay lot or fishermans lot); 31st/Burnham (meter parking between McCormick Place and 31st Street Harbor); Oakwood/39th (meters); 63rd Street/Casino Pier (pay lot); Steelworkers Park (free street parking at east end of 87th); Cal Park (free parking). We are located an hour and fifteen minutes south of Chicago. Big Green Lake - Angling pressure is down with the Wisconsin gun deer season in progress but for the few anglers still out fishing the rewards are there. We've got your Chicago fishing charter season covered! Wow! Welcome to Chitown! We got some nice Bluegill , striper bass and a perch. BoRabb Williams texted the photo above and this from the Nightmares usual fishing party at Jackson Park the night before snagging season begins: Team Krappie Inc. and I fish with 8lb test. Eelpout or Burbot are spawning and everyone C/R some. We offer some of the most magnificent cover located in the Chicagoland area. A couple of weeks ago, one of the contributors to the weekly report suggested that it was almost time to start fishing the riffles as the water warms rapidly (more dissolved oxygen there than in the slower water). Fishing remains very consistent. 5.3K members. Best of Cook County Lakes Fishing Report Recipes . The fish are in 15-18 ft of water. ET Nefishingexpo has the lowest Google pagerank and bad results in terms of Yandex topical citation index. Fished for 6 hours. Still an unusual amount of Northerns caught by anglers casting for salmon, had one in the shop well over 40 inches. . A few Trout also in the mix. Capt. Techniques and locations are welcome to be shared. 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