Fishing near Mount Greenwood, Illinois

Mount Greenwood is a Cook County town in Illinois. About 18,783 people live here. In the order you would reach them: Lake Marion (0.8 miles), Lake Arrowhead (5.4 miles) to the south-west, Turtlehead Lake (6.3 miles), Lake Cottage Grove (6.9 miles) to the south-east followed by Flatfoot Lake (7.2 miles). Lake Cottage Grove is the plain first choice: find the weed edge, then work the drop behind it. Some winters cap these and some do not. It is not guaranteed from one year to the next. Still water dominates the list. Work slowly along an edge instead of casting about. At 2 acres, Lake Marion is the closest water to town. Parking is recorded at Lake Marion. Expect the lakes here to open about mid March. Across Cook County, recorded fish include common carp, bluegill and green sunfish. Cook County covers most of this list, so one licence usually does....