Do any of you guys night fish, if not your missing out. These are from last night, hard to get get pics at 12:30 the biggest was about 4 we put back about a dozen over 2 lbs. and yes before anyone starts I do like to eat Bass but at most I may only keep 5% of what I catch over the year and from select lakes.  

Nice catches Scott

I never get to fish at night most parks around me close at sunset or 10pm unless you camp all night.

Late report from this past Sunday the 19th. Fox Chain. Water temps 59* and as high as 67* in some of the channels

Solid fish! With all this cold weather, idk when they're going to spawn! I have a tournament Saturday, it's going to be cold and wet. Makes for some hard fishing.

You fishing Anglers Dream on the river? You'll be fishing against the 2 in the red boat. My son Joe is the one in the grey with the TW hoodie.

Nice fish slone. 

I am not in anglers dream. High school tournaments.

Good luck. Swimjigs were most productive. Bluegill colors work well year round. Pb&j is another good color as is the orange and brown seen on the jig fish in the pic. Best advice I can give you is if you find cover that looks good, make multiple casts to it.

Thanks. Rip rap is usually most productive for is.

Thanks. Rip rap is usually most productive for us.

You're missing out on  a lot of good fishing ground. There's not a whole lot of riprap on the Chain compared to other cover. Seawalls docks and wood, on the right lakes, at the right time, are very productive areas to fish as well as the reeds. I've been fishing the Chain for over 10 years both competitively and for fun. The jig bass was caught off wood which fishes well all season. Might be worth a look. 

Were at the des plaines river. But we have fished stumps with mediocre success and yet rip rap has always come up to be the best for us

Good luck tomorrow and post the results

Super cold and windy day yesterday. People caught, not many teams did. But people caught. Me and my partner got one and I missed a nice one on a senko. We were fishing unbearably slow. But we did qualify for the final tournament day so that'll be fun.

My son weighed in 2 fish for 6th place. 1st weighed in a 12lb limit. I went out today looking for crappies and walleye. The water temp dropped 10* since last week.  

Couple from this morning

1st pic 3.28#, 2nd pic 3.83#

 

 

 

Did not wven want to fish for bass this weekend...caught some good fish though.

Did not wven want to fish for bass this weekend...caught some good fish though.

Nice!

In the 30's last night started out slow rolling spinnerbaits, by the end of the day they were blasting out of the weed beds for buzzbaits.

Nice

Shad were spawning on Clinton this weekend.  Fishing real slow though.

it was tough all last week on clinton. 

Heading to Jacksonville lake this afternoon any tips? Other than trying to stay dry lol!

Some table fare. Big ones are just under 10". Panfish are in full spawn mode. Water temps 65*

 

Highland silver lake: anyone fished it? Getting skunked their lately. Trick worm, floating worm, traps, cranks, spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, you name it. About ready to resort to c4.