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 ...

There is much to be said about late fall fishing on a stream such as the Kankakee. No one else is on the water. ... We were probing what we hoped were wintering places for these fish, ...

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.

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 River carved out its place ...

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 ...