Fishing at Home Lake, Tazewell County, Illinois

• Overview

  Within Tazewell County, Illinois, you have Home Lake. The bank gives way to pine and birch. Small at around 3 acres: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Our Tazewell County list holds plenty of bigger water. Marquette Heights sits 2.2 miles from here and is the nearest stop. Then North Pekin, 2.5 miles, and Pekin, 2.7 miles. This one sits near enough to a boundary to be worth checking.

• Where to Fish on Home Lake

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. Inflow corners move water, and moving water gathers fish. Rip-rap along the wall holds fish that the open bank never does. Survey and observation records for Tazewell County include common carp, white perch, goldfish and bluegill. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. Home Lake fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 76°F at the top of summer and 23°F at the bottom of winter. Hard water is a season in its own right here. Ice-out usually falls in mid March, and the weeks after it fish hardest. In an average year the thaw lands around mid March and the freeze near late December. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. It holds true on Home Lake more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Boat access is recorded roughly half a mile away. The nearest car park we can see is half a mile out, so expect a walk with your gear. There is a toilet block some half a mile out. John T McNaughton Park covers this ground, which means extra rules to check. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Failing this one, try Lutticken South Pond, 0.1 miles away. Confirm before you fish Home Lake.