tag:www.chicagonow.com,2011:/blogs/illinois-outdoors//222/tag:www.chicagonow.com,2010:/blogs/illinois-outdoors//222.45386- Comments for Report (and short story) on Devil's Kitchen Don Dziedzina brings you the latest in outdoor news with entertaining and informative posts on fishing, hunting and the outdoors. Movable Type 4.261 tag:www.chicagonow.com,2010:/blogs/illinois-outdoors//222.45386 2010-03-15T00:50:34Z 2010-03-15T02:40:45Z Report (and short story) on Devil's Kitchen Devil's Kitchen has been giving up some nice fish. Fishing is good in southern Illinois Don Dziedzina http://www.chicagonow.com/profiles/DonDziedzina
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Gotta give these guys some lessons on taking photos....

Ron DaRosa from Carbondale sent over a report from Devil's Kitchen in southern Illinois.

Did you know that this lake was built back in the days of President Roosevelt?  When the war came, work was stopped and the facilities there were taken over by homeless people.  Back then, they called them hobos.

Well, after the war was over, Roosevelt and his wife Eleanore went to southern Illinois for a tour to see how the work was progressing at the lake.

The hobos took over one building and used it for their cooking.  It was quite a mess. When Eleanore walked into the cook shack, she said, "This truly is the Devil's kitchen."  From that day on the lake had a new name.

Here's Ron's report...

Glad to report several big fish were caught today. I elected to fish DK (Devil's Kitchen) to catch some eaters as did Gibby. Hogan and Strat took Cedar Lake patrol today and it paid off !

They reported catching several over the 18" limit and 20 fish over all.

Hogan and Strat had a couple in the 5lb range. I brought home a limit of eaters. Both lakes had fish caught on jerkbaits and I caught a solid fish on a jig also.

A friend of Gibbys was an DK today and caught a 8.8!  Fish was beautiful. Gibby and Hogan will forward pictures of the 8.8 and the Cedar fish.  RD    

And here is the report from Brandon Gibbs with the photo of that big bass.

Here is the 8lb. 8 oz. toad that RD spoke of that came from DK today.  Fish was caught by Steve Powers (a fishing partner of mine from years gone by) of Carbondale.
 
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Nice fish, no doubt. And a good photo too.

Fish was caught on the south end of this very deep and very clear lake.  Steve went to muddy water looking for water that was a bit warmer trying to get ready for a club fish off that is next weekend.  He caught several fish (next biggest was 3.5 lbs.) in dirty water on a 200 series bandit in less than 6 ft. of water that was 45-48 degrees. 
 
This fish was beautiful and obviously released back into the lake.  Good times on the water today.  They're going to do nothing but get better from here!    Take care boys, - BG
 
 And here is a photo of Kevin's fish that he got today.  No doubt about it, with southern Illinois being only about 4 hours south of Chicago on I-57, Great Fishing is not that far away.
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Kevin Hogan with some nice bass.

Thanks for the photos guys.
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