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Muskellunge Fishing in Illinois
21 Illinois lakes on Bitespan have muskellunge on record from state fish-agency survey data. Open any of them for that lake's computed fishing report — modeled bite windows, depth and the species on record.
This page lists waters; it does not rank them. Bitespan holds no catch rates, creel surveys or stocking figures for Illinois, so it states none — the lakes below are in alphabetical order.
Illinois lakes with muskellunge on record
All 21 of them, alphabetically.
- Argyle Lakenear Colchester
- Busse Lakenear Elk Grove Village
- Canton Lakenear Canton
- Diamond Lakenear Mundelein
- Evergreen Lakenear Kappa
- Gladstone Lakenear Gladstone
- Heidecke Lakenear Morris
- Kinkaid Lakenear Harrison
- Lake Carltonnear Morrison
- Lake Georgenear Edgington
- Lake Pananear Tower Hill
- Lake Pittsfieldnear Pittsfield
- Lake Shelbyvillenear Sullivan
- Lake Storeynear Galesburg
- Lake Sulenear Rochelle
- Otter Lakenear Palmyra
- Pierce Lakenear Loves Park
- Schuy-Rush Lakenear Rushville
- Shabbona Lakenear Shabbona
- Spring Lakenear Macomb
- Sterling Lakenear Wadsworth
Muskellunge in other states
Every other state where enough waters hold muskellunge on agency record to be worth a page.
Other species in Illinois
What else Illinois's surveyed waters hold.
More on muskellunge
Seasonal depth, feeding windows and how wind and pressure move the bite — the muskellunge guide covers the behaviour behind every report linked above.
Read the Muskellunge guide →