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 ...

REND LAKE — When the third or fourth slab crappie hit the bottom of Rick Eskew’s livewell, the veteran Rend Lake fishing guide said for anyone to hear, “Not all bushes are created equal.” Although a ...

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 ...

In the distance, I could see fishing boats. Rend Lake, managed by the Army Corps of Engineers, is the second-largest man-made lake in Illinois, with 19,000 acres of water, 162 miles of shoreline and ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY (WSIL) -- The Rend Lake's Kids Fishing Derby was a big hit on Saturday. It was a collaboration between 4-H and the Army Corp of Engineers at Rend Lake. The fishing derby was organized ...