Check out our Interactive Fishing Maps! BENTON, Ill. Standing at 18,900 acres, Rend Lake in Southern Illinois is a pretty well known largemouth bass lake for most anglers in the Midwest. What's not as ...

SOUTHERN, Ill. (KFVS) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a fishing report for Rend Lake. The lake is located in Franklin and Jefferson Counties in southern, Illinois. At Rend Lake, fishermen ...

Rend Lake fishing guide Cyril Bowlin of Benton has been named to the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as a “legendary guide,” and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources’ Urban Fishing ...

Look at it as a test of fishing mettle. “I had an angler sum this place up for me once,” says Illinois Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist Mike Hooe. “He said, ‘Mister, if you can’t ...

If predictions by Illinois Department of Natural Resource’s fisheries biologist Mike Hooe prove to be true, anglers heading to southern Illinois Rend Lake are likely to have one of their best years ...