Illinois Outdoor News- 50 inch club of Illinois

[Nathan]

I was really surprised to see Storey on the list that many times. I have fished it a few times when I was up at WIU as a student. It has really good cabbage weeds in it and decent water, but when talking with people no one ever seemed to do really well fishing for muskie. It's also a relatively small lake with only a 10HP limit.

[Bob T]

Lake Storey is an electric motor only lake last i heard. It may have changed this year but I doubt the city of Galesburg would do that.

[Nathan]

When I was up at Western I thought it was a ten horse limit, but I could be wrong. I do remember talking to the biologist about the muskie in Storey and he said he asked the people who give the fishing report to not put too much in about the muskie to try and keep the pressure away from them.

I did hear that about a week ago another 50 came out of McMaster. That's another lake I'd really love to go fish some weekend. I love fishing that clear water.

[Bob T]

I was out with a client on McMaster the day the 51.75"er was caught on a plastic worm. We raised 4 fish in the mid 40" range that day and some smaller fish but no takers. I believe the fish that was caught by the bass anglers was one we raised an hour or so before they caught it. We had raised a very large fish in the same area the fish was caught.
Oh well...maybe next time.

Lake Storey is an electric motor only lake & gives up large fish regularly. I have heard basically the same thing about the locals wanting to keep the lake a secret. After fishing lakes like Shabbona that get more publicity & seeing whats happened there, I can't say as I blame them for wanting to keep quiet.