Lake Shelbyville Illinois Fishing Blog

We were not out there today, but we should make it out Monday.

Fished two jig rigs with 2 clients for white bass and kept 36 nice ones, released lots of other fish. We caught bass and walleye on the jigs also, but no keepers. All our fish were in 1 to 3 ft. of water on the sand bars through-out the lake.

Barb and I fished for bass today without much luck, only 1 keeper and it came on a jig off a main lake point 15 ft. deep.

Fished with 3 clients for whites and kept 42 and one 15 1/2 in. walleye. All were caught on 2 jig rgs in less than 3 ft. of water on main lake sand bars.

We didn’t have time for fishing today.

Fished for whites today with 2 clients and had 38 that we cleaned. We caught all our fish shollow on 2 jig rigs north of the findlay bridge in 1 to 3 ft. of water. Also we had 2 walleye a 3 lb that broke off at the boat and a short one . Be sure and check the shollow flats with the wind blowing in , not all are holding fish but some are starting to.

Barb and I went looking for shollow whites today. It was so hot we did more riding then fishing. We didn’t have much luck, but we did find lots of bait fish and I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before the whites are feeding in the shollows.

Barb and I fished for bass with worms and jigs on deep points for 2 hrs. without a bite. Then we went shallow with rattle-trap and craink baits and started catching fish. We caught small bass and whites on wind blown banks from point 2 south until the heat got so bad we gave up and came home to the A. C.

Fished a half day with two young boys and their dad for whites, it was slow for whites only had 12 we kept. The first fish we caught was a 27 lb. buffolo on a 1 oz. man-o-lure, was a nice thrill for a 9 year old boy. We caught lots of yellow bass, drumm perch and a few crappie all on spoons in 8 to 22 ft. of water. We were fishing sand bars from point 3 north.

Barb and I fished for whites today, we keep 23 to give to the mailman. Found our fish in 1 to 3 ft. of water on a wind blown sand bar on the north end of the lake. We used the 2 jig rig with a high fast retrieve to catch these fish.

We fished for bass and looked for whites just to stay with them . We found whites coming up on top and also on the bottom 17 to 21 ft. The whites on top were in the middle of the lake in 40+ ft. of water and you could catch them on 2 jig rigs. The deep fish we caught on man-o-lures. The bass fishing was slow , Barb had 1 short fish on a worm in 4 ft. of water.