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Article: SMALLMOUTH BASS ARE THRIVING IN ILLINOIS WATERS
- Article from:
- The News-Sun - Waukegan (IL)
- Article date:
- April 2, 1999
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Last week, I wrote about the growing smallmouth-bass fishery that exists along the Illinois shoreline of Lake Michigan.
What many inland fishermen already know is that the state of Illinois is also developing a smallmouth-bass fishery in its inland rivers and streams.
Illinois is not blessed with a myriad of inlands lakes and streams like states such as Minnesota and Wisconsin.
As a result, Illinois has never had the reputation of being a fisherman's paradise.
However, this situation may be changing.
Our state does have a few large rivers and a number of small streams and some of these have always had smallmouth bass.
The problem for many years has been pollution -- industrial, ...