Evergreen Lake, McLean County (all postings)

Went fishing on Saturday. Was on the lake from about 10:30 - 4:00. Caught about 20 crappie, all in the 8-10" (most about , and all released. Caught 4 saugeye in the 12-13 inch range also (just a little too small). Spent most of the time fishing dropoffs adjacent to the flats. Tried trolling, drifting, and vertical jigging. Almost all fish were caught vertical jigging in 18-25 feet of water with a 1/8 oz jig and Gulp minnow.

On thursday I ended up with one nice catfish and a musky that was just shy of 40" - yes, all on the 1/8 oz jig and soft plastic.

Good Luck everyone!

fished this morning and only caught 8 crappie the biggest being 11in and the smallest being 8in, turned them all back for another day, i thought it was suppose to be sunny and 70 but was cloudy and windy, still a good time. there was a bass tourney going on and saw a few people at the dock and that didn't have anything. anybody else do any good this weekend?.

Another practice, same amount of kids. A few more fish were caught this week. A few days of warmth and the lake should be ready to turn on.

First practice for Normal West. Fished 10 till noon. Launched out of White Oak ramp. 7 boats, each of us had 1 or 2 future state bass fishing champions! 1 fish total? Next practice will be better!

Any reports with all of the rain and runoff ?

I had two freinds on Evergreen ALL DAY yesterday they moved around anywere from 8- 30 fow no crappies gills or saugeye , one little bass thats all, It has been a tuff lake this ice season .I have been sticking to the smaller lakes and ponds with good fishing , Be safe happy hooking

fished there last friday it was the worst day icefishing ive ever had if anyone knows some good spots please let me in on them

Yea that was me sitting outside the blue shack that brush pile were you seen us has been hot all season. I will start a new board for heritage lake

Haven't made it out on the ice at Evergreen yet this year. I live out at Heritage Lake in Mackinaw so fishnforfive's post is encouraging. Was out on Sat but only found dinks on the back side of the lake. Fishnforfive, care to share any locations? Unless you were in the blue shanty I seen out there Sunday, in which case I know pretty much where you were at.

Evergreen was horrible saturday(Deer Island). We marked a ton of fish on the flasher that would come in and out but only hooked 2 small crappie. went to lake Bloomington in the afternoon and caught 4 small gills and a 10in crappie. fished heritage lake in mackinaw Sunday ended up with 25 nice gills (two gills were 10+) and a 14in crappie

I didn't walk across the entire lake, but the bays that I drilled holes had over 10" a week ago, so the ice should be good on most of the lake.

Lake Bloomington is safe for ice fishing , anyone been on Evergreen ?

Has anyone checked out the ice depth recently?

Fished Evergreen On 7-2-08 and 7-5-08, small saugeye , a few 10 1/2 inch crappie, alot of small crappie and a few gills , also caught a 26 in Muskie and some largemouth .

Fished from 9a-3p. Tried the deep end of the lake under the power lines from deep to flat to deep. Drifted with minnows & nightcrawlers. Only caught 4 fish the first 3 hours. 3 small saugeye, 1 small crappie. Went to the shore/bays and caught several nice gills and 1 nice 9" crappie. Not a very productive day fishing. Who knows where the big crappie are in this lake. They now put a 15 limit and must be 9" on the crappies here. Good luck to all.