Dang hated to miss fishing! I hope you slay em today! Or slayed them and are back out of the heat!
That’s true. Hoping to hit the lower Illinois again this weekend. Have a buddy coming down next month and I’m hoping to get familiar enough to get us on some good fish.@HoLeChit you are young you can take it.
It's not all that bad on the lake as the water is cooler than the "concrete jungle"
And the wind blowing helps.
And if you get too hot then jump in.
My car seats will dry.
Hoping to hit the lower Illinois again this weekend.
I noticed that temp difference on my finder last time. Even ran across some 55° water coming in from some creeks or drainage. I’ll have to poke around the structure more, I was honed in on the holes near the Arkansas trying to get the striper to bite, but they just weren’t having it at all.Here is something really fun to do on the lower portion of the river where it meets the Arkansas river.
Find the parting line where that Illinois hits the Arkansas get out of the boat and swim on one side then the other.
One side will be cool and the other warm.
You can usually spot the area because one will be clearer than the other.
Up the Illinois from the Arkansas there are many trees and you can get close in by them and put the hurt on sand bass along the shoreline.
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