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Fishing Guide Forest Preserves of Cook County Fishing Guide Forest Preserves of Cook County fpdcc.com Take a Kid Fishing! Enjoy the outdoors with kids! The Forest Preserves of Cook County offers family events The Illinois Department of Natural Resources also and fishing derbies throughout the year to introduce provides information about kids and family fishing. children to the joys of fishing. Visit fpdcc.com/events Visit dnr.illinois.gov and ifishillinois.org R-18 to learn about all of our events. 1 Table of Contents Guide to Fishing in The Forest Preserves Guide to Fishing in the Forest Preserves 3 of Cook County Rules & Regulations, Illegal Actions 3–4 This guide lists lakes and waters open to public fishing Over 2,000 acres of fishing water, in over 40 areas, in the Forest Preserves of Cook County. Fishing at are now available. The District conducts an ongoing Boating 5 lakes not listed in this book is prohibited. Individual program of fisheries management, stocking, shoreline maps show the location and depths of each lake, improvement, nuisance aquatic vegetation control, and Countywide Map of Fishing Lakes 6–7 and list principal fish species. other projects to enhance fishing enjoyment. Individual Index & Location of Designated Fishing Lakes 8 lakes may be closed at times for stocking, or other Accessible fishing areas are located at Busse management activities. Reservoir–Main Pool, Busse Reservoir–South Pool, Lake Maps 9–58 Flatfoot Lake, Maple Lake, Saganashkee Slough, Management focuses on providing the best possible Fishing Guide Table 32–33 Skokie Lagoons, Tampier Lake, and Pogie Lake. shoreline fishing, while offering boating on designated See individual lake maps for more details. lakes. Limited nuisance vegetation control improves Used Fishing Line 59 aesthetic values and makes shoreline fishing easier. As part of the mission to preserve and protect natural Other management activities include periodic sampling Common Fishes of Cook County 60–61 lands for the education, pleasure and recreation to determine populations, reproduction and growth, of the public, the FPCC provides a variety of fishing and species relationships, and stocking. You, the Fish Consumption Advisory & V.H.S. 62 opportunities for families and individual of all ages angler, can help by obeying size and creel limits, and Aquatic Nuisance Species 63 and abilities. Some fishing waters are natural, some other regulations that contribute to good fishing for all. have been created by damming streams, and others Please pick up all bait containers and other litter, and Asian Carp 64 were dug during highway construction. Sale of fishing remember that discarded line and hooks are a serious licenses and federal taxes on fishing equipment have hazard to wildlife and other people. Contact Information 65 provided funding for District fishing programs. REGULATIONS The District works with the Illinois Department A valid Illinois hook and line fishing license of Natural Resources to provide quality fishing. is required except for persons under age 16, All state laws and rules apply to District waters, disabled, or blind. A State Inland Trout Stamp with some additional restrictions: bow and is required with each license, when fishing for arrow fishing is not permitted in District trout in Forest Preserves’ trout lakes. Fishing preserves, and all forest preserve waters and boating regulations are subject to change. are designated fish preserves,each fisherman is limited to two lines with no more than two hooks per line, and no trolley lines. This includes Check fpdcc.com for current rules and ice fishing. regulations. The Forest Preserves of Cook County would like to acknowledge and thank the following agencies for their help in the creation, design and content of this publication: Cook County Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Bureau of Technology, and the Cook County Department of Public Affairs and Communications, Office of the President, Cook County Board. 2 3 Size and creel limits pertaining to District Waters: Boating GENERAL REGULATIONS: Permitted on designated or state of residence and must display registration in SPECIES LIMIT PER DAY MINIMUM LENGTH water bodies: non-gasoline powered watercraft of either accordance with the regulations and laws of the State traditional construction, or multi-chambered inflatables of Illinois or the state of residence. All watercraft must Largemouth & Smallmouth Bass 6 14 Inches with a factory installed floor and hull identification carry the appropriate personal floatation devices for number, including sailboats, rowboats, canoes and that watercraft as dictated by Federal and state laws. Walleye 6 18 Inches kayaks. Radio controlled boats, and floatplanes on ILLEGAL FLOATATION DEVICES: It is illegal to use or Channel Catfish 6 No Minimum designated lakes only. bring into or upon any of the waters under the exclusive MOTORBOATS RESTRICTED: No person shall, at any control of the Board of Commissioners; any watercraft Northern Pike 3 24 Inches time, bring any gasoline or other fuel powered boat or floatation devices other than those listed under White, Black, Hybrid Crappie 15 No Minimum or outboards into or upon any waters under exclusive the General Regulations above. Prohibited floatation control of the Board of Commissioners. Electric or devices include but are not limited to inner-tubes, Bluegill, Redear, Pumpkinseed Sunfish 15 No Minimum battery powered trolling motors shall not be used fly-fishing float-tubes or pontoons, sail-surf boards, Muskellunge 1 42 Inches in or upon waters except at such place or places as and stand-up paddle boards, towables or inflatable may be provided or designated for such purpose by pool toys, lounges or rafts. Trout 5 No Minimum administrative order of the General Superintendent BOATING WATERS: No private watercraft is allowed of the Forest Preserve District. on District waters, except as listed below. No private TROUT FISHING is closed from March 15 to the first ICE FISHING is permitted on designated District All such watercraft must be registered and titled watercraft is permitted on District waters overnight. Saturday in April, and from October 1 to the third Saturday lakes on a FISH AT YOUR OWN RISK basis. Ice with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources in October. conditions are not monitored by the District. A Boating regulations are subject to change. Check fpdcc.com/boating for current rules and regulations. minimum of 4 inches of solid ice over the entire lake is recommended for safety. Two-pole limit. Acceptable Watercraft Illegal Actions OUTBOARD MOTORS ALLOWED ELECTRIC MOTORS ONLY Des Plaines River: All watercrafts. (Gas motors must be removed from watercraft) It is unlawful to release any fish, including minnows animal or vegetable material, into the waters or on the One ramp: Plank Road Meadow, Ogden Avenue and Beck Lake: Canoes, kayaks, rowboats, sailboats; and goldfish, in any Forest Preserves of Cook County ice of any waters of Cook County, or in any place on the First Avenue, Lyons. Central & River Rd, Des Plaines waters, except in the waters from which they were banks of waters in the County, where it shall be liable Carry-in launch ramps: Allison Woods, Prospect taken. It is illegal to abandon, deposit or throw Big Bend Lake: Canoes, kayaks, rowboats, sailboats; to be washed into the waters by storms, floods or other Heights; Stony Ford, Lyons; Columbia Woods, Willow any wire, can, bottle, glass, paper, trash, rubbish, East River Rd, south of Golf Rd, Des Plaines causes.Tournament fishing is prohibited. The use of a Springs; Lemont Landing, Lemont; Irving Park Road cardboard boxes, wood cartons, trees, parts of minnow seine is not allowed, except for bait collecting Canoe Landing, Schiller Park; Maywood Grove, Busse Lake: Canoes, kayaks, rowboats, sailboats trees, brush or other insoluble material, including in the Des Plaines River. Maywood; Dam #2, Mt. Prospect; Northwest Woods, permitted in Main Lake & South Pool, ramps in both. Boat It is unlawful to enter the water for any reason, including wading or swimming, unless authorized by administrative Des Plaines rental at Main Lake. Higgins Rd & I-290, Elk Grove Village order of the general superintendent. Salt Creek: Maple Lake: Boat rental, no private boats; Wolf Rd. Carry-in launch ramps: Bemis Woods North, & 95th St, Willow Springs Accessibility Westchester; 26th Street Woods West, LaGrange Park Powderhorn Lake: Canoes, kayaks, rowboats, Chicago River: sailboats; Brainard Ave. east of Burnham Ave, Chicago Please see page 32 to learn more accessibility options. Carry-in launch ramp: Linne Woods, Morton Grove Saganashkee Slough: Canoes, kayaks, rowboats; Little Calumet River: All watercraft. canoe/kayak rental; boat launch at west parking lot, Two ramps: Little Calumet Boat Launch north 107th Street, between Archer Ave. & Willow Springs Road of Jackson St. east of Ashland, Riverdale; Beaubien Skokie Lagoons: Canoes, kayaks, rowboats, sailboats; Woods Boat Launch south of 130th St, west of Bishop canoe/kayak rental; between Dundee & Willow Roads, Ford Expressway, Chicago. east of the Edens Expressway Carry-in launch ramp: Kickapoo Woods, Riverdale Tampier Lake: Canoes, kayaks, rowboats; boat rental; 131st Street, west of Wolf Road 4 5 DESIGNATE FISHING LAES 53 arrington Potawatomi Glencoe ills Pond eer Wheeling Northbrook Skokie rove agoons ake Tower Road Palatine Allison oat aunch Tower Road Woods RENTAL anoe Kayak Penny Glenview everly Road Arlington am 294 Rental ake Pond South eights No. 2 arrington Woods eck ount 94 Wilmette Prospect ake
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