Lake Shelbyville Illinois Fishing Blog

The new fishing report has been posted! We will continue to update the report if we see things change. Thanks!

Barb Satterfield

Yes, it is true that Eagle Creek is closed. We are watching for updates on the situation and will post if we hear anything. We still have a few openings for the summer and fall at Our Old House if anyone needs a great place to stay! The new July 27 2009 fishing report has posted and fishing on Lake Shelbyville has been absolutely fantastic this year!

Barb

We hope everyone had a safe and fun 4th of July! We sure had a good time at our fish fry. We got rained out on Sat, but made a good recovery on Sunday the 5th. The weather was nice, company was excellent and the fish were yummy!

A new fishing report has been posted. If anyone has any questions or comments, please feel free to pipe in!

Good news! A new fishing report is coming tomorrow because we have new info to report this week. The white bass fishing has been excellent. We fished every day and caught loads of white bass each day from point 3 south. Check the report tomorrow and we will summarize what is working for us. We kept 45-65 a day that we cleaned to eat for our annual fish fry. YUM!! We caught quite a few big white bass too…….. that we put back.

Don and Barb

Barb and I have fished for whites the last two nights from 6:30 to 8 pm and found them schooling on the new shad fry. We kept 64 the first night and 49 the next. We caught them on the two jig rig and we had fun doing it. We found fish on the surface from point 3 south to the dam.

Don and Barb

Started our trolling and casting crankbaits for walleye. Only caught one short fish and two largemouth. Decided to head up Sand Creek to look for white bass and found them around 6 PM. Caught around 70 fish with several in the 11-13 inch range. One fish was 13.5 inches.

Fred

Fished for 6hrs today for bass and walleye with crank baits and texas rigged worms. We caught a few small bass and 1 17in walleye and 1 small mouth bass, it was only about 8in long. Thats the 4th small mouth I’ve ever caught in this lake in 39 years of fishing it. We also got into some schooling white bass feeding on the new shad fry,we caught them on the 2 jig rig fishing it fast on the surface. All and all it was a fun day and fishing is getting better. Good luck and take someone fishing.

Don

For anyone interested; If you want to catch walleye on Lake Shelbyville, book a trip with Don or Barb. I gained at least 5 years of experience with Don on a single June afternoon in 2003. And that isn’t even close to an exaggeration. He is a great teacher, and I’m sure Barb is too! They can show you the proper knots, baits, depths, sonar usage and other things to look for to help you consistently catch walleye in May and June (maybe all year as far as I know). I should say that I do not work for Don and Barb, I’m only providing a testimonial from a very satisfied customer. I will state beyond a shadow of a doubt that I would not be catching fish like the 7lb 5oz walleye appearing on this blog if it weren’t for Don.

Fred

Fished for crappie today for 4 hours and found some fish in the creeks 15 to 18 foot of water. We used tube jigs to catch what we had and found that most were 2 to 3 feet off the bottom. We tried shallow brush and all we could catch was small bass. Did see lots of bass and shad fry today so it looks like the spawns made it with the high water. I’ll be bass and walleye fishing Thursday let you kown what we do.

Fished south of point 3 today for walleye. Ended up with 4 keeprs, one that was 7lb 5 oz. Threw and trolled crankbaits in 5-12 feet of water. The 7+ pounder was caught trolling over a steep break off a point. This is the biggest walleye I have ever caught, and I’ve been to Canada many times. Another boat was trolling the same point with me and they ended up with 4 walleye. I saw one they caught that had to be at least 4 pounds. I’m doing nothing but walleye fishing for the month of June. I believe the last time the lake flooded was back in 2002. The following year produced good numbers of walleye. With last year’s flood, and this year’s flood, I think fishing for all species will be good for years to come. They are hard to find in the flooded water, but in my opinion, these floods are a good thing. This fall will be unbelievable for crappie. I caught limits in less than 1 hour in October and November last year, with several fish over 12 inches. I think we could see fish in the 13-14 inch range this fall. I had a few last fall that were 13 inch black crappie. They had some serious sholders.

Fred