The 2020 Illinois Fall Trout Fishing Season opens Saturday, Oct. 17 at more than 50 ponds, lakes and streams throughout the state.
An early opportunity at select trout sites – the Fall Catch-and-Release Fishing Season – will open Oct. 3. No trout may be kept during the catch-and -elease fishing period, but anglers can keep trout after the opening of the regular season beginning Oct. 17.
The Illinois catchable trout program is funded by those who use the program through the sale of Inland Trout Stamps and the Illinois Fish Management Fund.
No trout may be taken from any of the stocked sites from Oct. 1 until the fall trout season opens Oct. 17. Anyone attempting to harvest trout before the legal harvest season opening will be issued citations.
All anglers — including those who intend to release fish caught before Oct. 17 — must have a valid fishing license and an Inland Trout Stamp unless they are under the age of 16, blind or disabled, or are an Illinois resident on leave from active duty in the Armed Forces. The daily catch limit for each angler is five trout.
Illinois fishing licenses and Inland Trout Stamps are available at DNR Direct license and permit locations, including many bait shops, sporting goods stores and other retail outlets.
Fishing licenses and trout stamps also can be purchased by using a credit card through DNR Direct online via the IDNR website at https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr.
For more information about all site regulations, anglers should contact individual sites that will be stocked with catchable-size trout.
Participants in Fall Trout Fishing Season are reminded to follow current public health directives, including maintaining social distancing guidelines, bringing with them masks in case social distancing cannot be maintained and hand sanitizer containing at least 60% alcohol.
The Forest Preserves of Cook County has not made a final decision on opening for trout season, due to conditions related to COVID-19.
The locations that will be open for Fall Trout Fishing Season include:
• Bureau County: Hennepin Canal Parkway
• Kankakee County: Bird Park Quarry, Kankakee
• Kankakee County: Rock Creek, Kankakee River State Park
• Kendall County: Big Lake at Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area
• La Salle County: Illinois and Michigan Canal, Lock 14, La Salle-Peru
• Ogle County: Pine Creek, White Pines Forest State Park
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