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On a weekend when half the anglers of northern Illinois make their customary trek to the Wisconsin walleye opener, almost no one is paying attention to Shabbona Lake. But this little state park within ...

Last week Rich Komar and I hooked up the trailer with my kayaks and hit the road for Shabbona Lake. Fishing out of a kayak is fun, different and quite appropriate for this lake. Shabbona has a ...

Shabbona Lake is sizzling when it comes to big fish. A muskie angler, who didn’t leave his name boated, a 49½-inch muskie Monday at the only public lake in Illinois built specifically for fishing.