Lasalle Lake Blue Catfish

I brought my bike for this trip since I planned on fishing the center dike with the weather forecast calling for southwest winds.

Lasalle lake blue catfish. A quality fishery is available in this power plant cooling lake. Pulaski and Alexander Counties Channel Catfish. Good numbers of big.

Many anglers prefer the same baits at night for blue catfish and prefer to go big with the baits and target the mega big blue catfish north of 75 pounds. All Sizes Common Carp. Mike put us on some nice Blue catfish.

Apparently the turbid water conditions permit natural reproduction and recruitment of a large number of smaller fish. All Sizes Flathead Catfish All Sizes. La Salle Lake LaSalle - Illinois.

LaSalle lake is an Exelon power plant cooling lake. They are found in large river. Flatheads up to 42 pounds have been stocked and later some 5-inch blue catfish were added in the 90s.

Note that there are several zone-fishing closures along the floating bridges and a minimum size regulation to protect juvenile Steelhead. Mar 21 2014 After a long and brutal winter we finally had a nice day so I went out to LaSalle Lake to try for some striped bass hybrids and blue catfish. Anglers can also find a world-class walleye and sauger fishery on the Illinois River and tangle with hybrid striper and blue catfish on the LaSalle Cooling Lake.

The lake was stocked initially with 10000 - 8 to 10 inch channel catfish from Fountain Bluff Fish Farm. The lake which looks like an odd splash of blue paint in online maps due to its many twists and turns around islands and into coves also offers very nice fishing for largemouth bass stocked channel catfish and other warmwater fish. There were a few bass and large catfish that probably were injured and could not survive the high temps of the water that occur whenever there is a prolonged event of temps in the 90s.