Having guided for smallies for 18 years on the Kankakee, Mullady has found ways to stretch the limits. He actually thinks he can catch those fish as late as the second week of December.

After Northwest Indiana was surveyed in 1834, it took 24 years for the first shovel to dig in along the Kankakee River, a river that owed its birth 17,000 years ...

KANKAKEE COUNTY, Ill. — Ask a random American fly fisherman to envision the ideal angling experience, and he might describe something out of Norman Maclean’s 1976 novel “A River Runs ...

Fishing the Kankakee River is more about life than the fish for Larry Green, here with an early smallmouth bass on Monday. Credit: Dale Bowman Share KANKAKEE — Larry Green and I climbed through ...

There are many great places to camp and fish in Illinois. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources manages 324 state parks, fish and wildlife areas, state forests and other sites. Here is a ...

A morning fishing with Matt Mullady on the Kankakee River was good for catching smallmouth bass on topwaters (and other ways), to listen to and watch the birds and to catch up on family and life.

Lanes were shut down Tuesday morning in Kankakee County after a crash between two truck-tractor semitrailers collided head-on, left one person dead and another injured, Illinois State Police said.