Was thinking about going out on Mallard this weekend. Has anyone been out there lately, any reports? Thanks!

After nearly 2 long months of recovery, I finally got out for a few hours of fishing on the Illinois River yesterday. Fished late morning to early afternoon from shore, so definitely not optimal conditions, but managed a decent whitebass (15") a few smallish smallmouth (12") and one hybrid...

I started out at about 11 in the morning. Water was a bit chilly (it was summer-warm when I was done) and perfectly clear. Very shallow and lots of grass so I concentrated on throwing t-rigged plastics to the structure and bombing the hole with a squarebill. I took the skunk off early on - a...

Took the kayaks out on the DPR near Lemont with my son, just before sunrise. Beautiful morning, some fog on the water and partly cloudy, low winds. My son was intent on fishing for pike this day, so primarily were targeting them. He had a bass hit a smaller Whopper Plopper early on, but it got...

Had a great day out for 5 hours lots of smallies double digit day all caught on jerkbaits they were on them like mad dogs a few on plastics but jerkbait was the big bite bait weeds still breaking up was kind of pain but fishable once i grabbed jerkbait rod never looked back in one spot i was...