Check out our Interactive Fishing Maps!. BENTON, Ill. Standing at 18,900 acres, Rend Lake in Southern Illinois is a pretty well known largemouth bass lake for most anglers in the Midwest.

The man-made lake two hours from St. Louis offers fishing, boating, camping and cycling. Rend Lake's water-filled fun will hook you Skip to main content Skip to main content ...

The lake is located in Franklin and Jefferson Counties in southern, Illinois. At Rend Lake, fishermen can catch large mouth bass, crappie, bluegill, channel catfish and white bass.

Rend Lake is a popular fishing lake for a variety of sport fish. Hooe says 35 percent of largemouth bass sampled during the most recent survey were 14 inches or longer.

Notes from the field. Rend Lake fishing guide Cyril Bowlin of Benton has been named to the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as a “legendary guide,” and the Illinois Department of ...

WHITTINGTON - I've been fishing for six years and consider myself an avid angler. My biggest catch: a 12-pound flathead. So as I approached Rend Lake, less than two hours southeast of St. Louis ...

REND LAKE, Ill. (KFVS) - Fishermen from all over the Heartland hit the waters of Rend Lake in Illinois for the 16th Annual Bass Fishing Tournament in memory of fallen soldier, Kyle Price. The ...

BENTON, IL (KTVI) – A Collinsville family is in shock after boating accident on Rend Lake kills a teenage and grandfather. Rend Lake is in Benton, Illinois, about a 100 miles southeast of St. Louis.

The Rend Lake Resort offers rooms, a restaurant, a general store and places to dock your boat on the shore of the nearly 19,000-acre reservoir in southern Illinois. (Courtesy photo/U.S. ARMY CORPS ...

INA, Ill. (WSIL) -- Rend Lake officials are giving us an update to a boat ramp which is being built. The Rend Lake Visitor’s Center said concrete has been poured for the new Jackie Branch boat ramp.