Leading this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report are spring signs on Lake Michigan and inland waters plus the perch closure beginning May 1 on Illinois' Lake Michigan waters and Wisconsin's general inland opener coming Saturday.
Steelhead going up and down the Chicago lakefront and some early signs of perch on southern Lake Michigan lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; plus Kurt Justice noted in the northern Wisconsin report that muskies are looking “swoll”!
Shoreline salmon on southern Lake Michigan continue to lead the sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report, but fall fishing truly arrived with the arrival of real fall weather and Vince Oppedisano reaches a cool mark.
Fishing through the fall heat, including a possible delay in the early C&R trout season in Illinois, leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.
Whispers come of fall kngs already coming to shore amid the usual mid-summer patterns and that leads this particularly sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.
Some cleaning up after the flash flood on Sunday and others settling into traditional Fourth of July fishing lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.
A reminder that perch fishing is closed in Illinois, the prospects for the Wisconsin opener on Saturday, and some early reports of Chinook on southern Lake Michigan lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; but there are plenty of other options from coho to spawning bass to crappie to walleye.
Illinois’ trout season opener (a success, despite some weather challenges), coho and trout on southern Lake Michigan, crappie improving on inland waters and river walleyes lead his sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.