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Walleye Fishing in Illinois
20 Illinois lakes on Bitespan have walleye 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 walleye on record
All 20 of them, alphabetically.
- Busse Lakenear Elk Grove Village
- East Fork Lakenear Olney
- Heidecke Lakenear Morris
- Kinkaid Lakenear Harrison
- Lake Bloomingtonnear Hudson
- Lake Clintonnear De Witt
- Lake Decaturnear Decatur
- Lake Georgenear Edgington
- Lake Pittsfieldnear Pittsfield
- Lake Shelbyvillenear Sullivan
- Lake Springfieldnear Southern View
- Lake Storeynear Galesburg
- Pierce Lakenear Loves Park
- Shabbona Lakenear Shabbona
- Siloam Springs Lakenear Kingston
- Spring Lakenear Macomb
- Sterling Lakenear Wadsworth
- Tampier Lakenear Orland Park
- Whalon Lakenear Bolingbrook
- Wolf Lakenear Burnham
Walleye in other states
Every other state where enough waters hold walleye on agency record to be worth a page.
Other species in Illinois
What else Illinois's surveyed waters hold.
More on walleye
Seasonal depth, feeding windows and how wind and pressure move the bite — the walleye guide covers the behaviour behind every report linked above.
Read the Walleye guide →