The extreme cold finally brought a belated start to ice fishing around the Chicago area, but ice fishing is going now and leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.
Warm weather has left ice in McHenry County too thin for anglers for most of the winter so far. The peak ice-fishing season in northern Illinois is January and February. In a good year, there may be a week or two in December or even into March if the weather stays cold where the ice is strong enough to support both people and a shack.
Coho starting on southern Lake Michigan and getting ice fishing in while you can around Chicago fishing lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.