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Guided Fishing Trips on Lake Shelbyville

Guided fishing trips year-round at Lake Shelbyville in Illinois. Enjoy the day, fish your limit of white bass, crappie, muskie, and walleye while you learn more about fishing from professional fishing guide, Steve Welch.

2010 Guided Fishing Trip Openings

Please call or e-mail Steve Welch for availability!
E-mail fish@lakeshelbyvilleguide.com
Phone (217) 762-7257
Cell: (217) 840-1221

Book your Lake Shelbyville fishing trip with Steve Welch year-round! Contact Steve Welch today!

For more information, pricing, what you need to bring on your fishing trip, and more, visit our Fishing Guide Trips Pricing & Information page!

NEW! Candystriper Jigs!

Great for White Bass! Candy Striper Jigs are now available in 3/8oz, 1/2oz, 5/8oz & 3/4oz. The colors available are: pure chartreuse, pure orange, blue/white, glow white, glow pink/white, glow chartreuse/white, glow orange/white, and glow red/white. See more information on our Store page!

1st place win at the Crappie USA Qualifying Tournament
Steve Welch won 1st Place at the Crappie USA Qualifying Tournament on Lake Shelbyville on May 10, 2008.

Current Best Bet for
Lake Shelbyville:

White Bass & Crappie

Lake Shelbyville
Fishing Report

The lake is now back to normal summer pool and I am back to my normal routine. Chasing whites on flats and with those whites are hungry walleye. We had eight just yesterday along with the usual hundred plus white bass. Biggest walleye was close to six pounds. A real brute and in less than two-feet of water. Read more of the Lake Shelbyville Fishing Report...

Fishing Articles by Steve Welch
"Lake Shelbyville White Bass "

I am lucky to guide on Illinois’s best white bass lake. Others can try and take the crown but for pure numbers and great size Shelbyville is full of fish. I have only been guiding for them now for just over a month and already we have caught close to ten thousand fish. I have cleaned about half that many and have gone through six electric knives this season already... read more of this article, "Lake Shelbyville White Bass", and more on the Fishing Articles page!

Read more fishing articles by fishing guide, steve welch

In the News
Chicago TribuneRead about Steve Welch in the Chicago Tribune article, "White bass are biting at Lake Shelbyville"

Read about Steve Welch and the Lake Shelbyville Fishing Guide service on the Field & Stream article, "Best Fishing Spots: Midwest"

Fishing guide Steve Welch holds up a good-sized Walleye at Lake Shelbyville.

To see more photographs of great fishing trips and some photographs from recent tournaments, visit the Photo Gallery

Buy Deep Ledge Fishing Jigs Here

Steve Welch is now selling Deep Ledge Jigs. These quarter ounce jigs come in 4 different colors. The Deep Ledge Jigs are sold in packages of 20 jigs for $8.00 per package + shipping. See how to order these deep ledge jigs now!

Book Your Fishing Trip Today!

Book your spring crappie trip now! We are currently taking bookings for spring crappie trips! Fishing should be great and dates will fill quickly!

Gift Certificates for 2009 Guide Trips

To order a gift certificate, email Steve and he will discuss dates and prices with you.

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