The Rend Lake Search and Rescue Team says 63-year-old Terry Calvert from New Baden jumped into the lake after his 13-year-old and 11-year-old grandkids fell in during a fishing trip.

According to officials, the Corps of Engineers employees, Illinois Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologists, and volunteers will place bundled and weighted Christmas trees into Rend ...

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. What's ...

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.

FRANKLIN COUNTY (WSIL) -- The Rend Lake's Kids Fishing Derby was a big hit on Saturday. It was a collaboration between 4-H and the Army Corp of Engineers at Rend Lake.

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.

REND LAKE — When the third or fourth slab crappie hit the bottom of Rick Eskew’s livewell, the veteran Rend Lake fishing guide said for anyone to hear, “Not all bushes are created equal ...

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 ...

The Rend Lake Resort and Conference Center, which opened in 1990, has 104 hotel rooms, suites, and cabins adjoining the lake, and a conference center including meeting rooms and banquet facilities.