Question from NC

[murphdog67]

Hello,

I'm a fellow brother of the crappie family. I will be in the area this weekend for about a week. I was wondering if any one can give me some information on Rend Lake..Also would anyone be interested in telling me or showing me some good places to fish. I will not be able to keep anything because I will not have any place to keep them until my return trip home.

Thanks for taking the time to read and any information you may pass along to me.

[BarryG]

You may want to post of the IL forum, that's where Rend is. Where will you be?

[Ranger Z21]

Yes, BarryG is right.
About an hour south of us.
I was on the lake a couple of weeeks ago. Water about like everything
right now. stained--water temp in the 40's. I found fish in the creek channels
staging. Verticle jigged for them. Chartruese color when sunny, black/ chartruese when cloud cover. Caught a few, nothing very good sized.
fished only a couple hours. Have heard better reports coming from Crab Orchard which I'll be on this week-end.

Z21

[fryguy]

skip Rend lake, there are much better places over there if you want to stay in illinois. Rend might be really good if you had one of those side imaging $1,000 fish finders, but that might be gross also because then you would see all the bodies that are inevitably on the bottom.

[murphdog67]

I want to say thanks for the replies from this post. Sorry it has taken me this long to respond. A bite of bad news for me is that I will not be able to take anytime to go fishing. This is the best time, I know. In June when I get a chance to come back I think the fish will be off the banks.

I will be at Embassy Down town St. Louis. Once again I want to say thanks for the advice. I have to study for a test that I have on the 11, and for that reason is the only reason why I will not be able to go fishing. I hope I get a chance to go to the Bass Pro Shop, a fishhermans toy store.

Thanks again and I wish you the best on the lake...