The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will have all its northern sites stocked with rainbow trout in time for the opener, Saturday, Oct. 18.
The stockings were delayed statewide by the heat this fall (such delays have become mpore common in the fall in recent years with climate change), but weather has been closer to fall temperatures recently.
Nearby sites for trout
Cook County: Axehead, Belleau, Busse Woods North, Green, Horsetail, Sag Quarry East, Wolf Lake at William W. Powers State Recreation Area
DuPage: Grove, Pickerel, Silver
Kankakee: Bird Park Quarry, Rock Creek at Kankakee River State Park
Kendall: Big Lake at Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area
Lake: Sand Lake at Illinois Beach SP
McHenry: Spring Grove Hatchery Pond, Lake Atwood
Will: Lake Strini, Van Horn Woods.
A fishing license and inland trout stamp are required. Daily bag is five.
The IDNR posted this on the 14 Downstate waters that will not be stocked before the opener:
Fourteen lakes in central and southern Illinois will have delayed stocking schedules, but they all will be stocked by Saturday, Oct. 25. Those lakes are:
Siloam Springs State Park Lake, Adams County Gridley Lake, Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area, Cass County Horton Lake, Nauvoo State Park, Hancock County Beaver Dam Lake, Beaver Dam State Park, Macoupin County Morgan Lake at Nichols Park, Jacksonville, Morgan County Illinois Department of Transportation Lake, Springfield, Sangamon County Mineral Springs Park Lagoon, Pekin, Tazewell County
Crawford County Conservation Area Pond Mount Vernon Veterans Memorial Park, Jefferson County Derby Lake at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex in Sparta, Randolph County Randolph County State Fish and Wildlife Area Lake
Jones Lake Trout Pond, Saline County State Fish and Wildlife Area, Saline County
Frank Holten State Park main lake, St. Clair County Jones Park Lake, East St. Louis, St. Clair County