Fishing near Joliet, Illinois

Joliet is Will County through and through, Illinois side. It is the sort of town where the water is closer than the shops. By distance from the centre: Lake Renwick a shade over 7.6 miles to the north-west, Puddle Pond a shade over 8.0 miles plus Scuds Lake a shade over 8.1 miles to the east. Gun Club Lake answers to the pipe rather than the rain, so the level moves oddly. Ice here is the exception, not the rule. It is not guaranteed from one year to the next. Standing water makes up nearly all of it. Slow water beside fast water is the place to be. The first on the list, Lake Renwick, measures about 172 acres. Lake Renwick is the easiest to reach with a car. Ice generally clears near mid March in an average year. Fish documented across Will County include common carp, green sunfish, threadfin shad, bluegill and goldfish. If Lake Renwick is busy, everything else on this list is quieter....