Despite a two-hour, five-minute delay for dense morning fog, Lake Shelbyville looked strong in its first time hosting the Illinois High School Association’s state finals for bass fishing. St.

SHELBYVILLE, Ill. (WCIA) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Lake Shelbyville and Friends of Lake Shelbyville are holding a fishing tournament for kids in June. The tournament will be held at ...

Mounce said a review of current rules at the 11,000-acre Lake Shelbyville came after complaints over the past few years from anglers who said they were not catching as many legal crappies at the ...

SHELBYVILLE, IL (WCIA) — There aren’t too many lakes in Central Illinois, but Lake Shelbyville is a big one. At 11,100 acres in size and 172 miles of shoreline, it is only behind Lake Michigan ...

After 15 years at Carlyle Lake, the Illinois High School Association is finally moving the state finals for bass fishing . . . to Lake Shelbyville for the next five years.

Lake Shelbyville isn’t natural, rather, it is a reservoir as a result of the Kaskaskia River being dammed up in Shelby and Moultrie counties. This is for flood mitigation purposes. So while we are all ...