Fox river fishing (Carpentersville IL) Multi-species Action!! 

Such a great fight for such a small fish👍

Let me know when your out next!

What town do you like to fish in? I go to Yorkville, Oswego and St. Charles, all produce !

@@John_Montefalco I believe you, I should venture out more but have limited time. The Elgin area is great all the way down to the South Elgin dam and beyond. Carpentersville and Dundee is also a great area, all through Dundee there are a lot of rocks, that's where the smallmouth are going to be. All the mudflats and mud eddies hold channel cats into the evening there too. I caught 15 smallmouth bass in the 2lb range in Elgin wading in the river last Sunday. In the heat of summer all the guys are catching the larger smallmouth holding tight to the rocks off the bottom in the middle of the river. 👍

@@scottwilliams3481 I’m trying to watch these type of videos to see what I should throw, hiking to the fox this weekend

@@John_Montefalco right now all the guys catching smallmouth are using soft plastic crayfish or swimbaits bouncing off bottom in little hops. Also sqaurebill cranks retrieved with the current bumping rocks will produce all throughout Cville and Dundee. With all the cicadas out now I hit them right at sundown on top water heddon torpedoes. For the cats I use a lot of nightcrawlers off bottom because I can also catch a big carp or whatever is biting. I usually enhance my gob of crawlers with a spritz of crayfish attractant has noticeably upped my odds on the crawler bite. Hope this helps.

@@scottwilliams3481 awesome, thanks!!

Go early in the day or night fish, wayyyy to crowded during the day.

Got any good spots in aurora?

It is a very underrated fisherie

Thanks👍

@@_MidwestAngling_ oh yea g there are so many muskies, walleye, and smallies. Loaded to the brim.

Can you bank fish by the dam as well?

Yup water temps below 50-55 and they are delicious

They are all over, especially this turn of year. My favorite way of targeting them is just with a few 1/8 oz split shots up from a floating jighead and a crawler. Fishing upstream of structure.

I used to have really good luck with channel cats right by OTTO, not sure if that bridge is still intact but that little island was a great spot

I catfish this river alot. I stopped using drum for bait years ago. They just don't seem to like it very much. Any panfish species is better. Smaller chunks do better here. The fish are mostly channels with a few flathead. I catch more flathead walleye fishing

Summer time the dam holds a lot of “trash” fish. Cats, carp, and drum. With the occasional big smallmouth and spotty white bass. The game fish don’t really start coming in until late September early October at the dam

It’s the Carpentersville dam. I would recommend going early morning or at night right now as it gets very crowded during the day.