Shabbona Lake Rockfest Saturday, February 1st – Canceled – Rescheduled for February 22nd

The tradition of adding more strategically placed rock habitat will continue on Saturday February 1, 2014 . Rockfest is organized by the Shabbona Lake Sportsman Club with help from many other area fishing clubs. During the past 13 years over 1000 tons of rock have made a great impact on the fishery.

We will create a new pile in the Southwest bay on top of an old gravel road, that has been approved by the Biologist.

Normally this event is finished around noon and a nice cookout is provided for all. That leaves time to do some ice fishing.

We encourage the many fishing clubs that fish Shabbona to bring a group out and lend a hand . Nothing is better than seeing what the Rockpiles look like and you know exactly where they are. The Rock is placed thru large holes cut in the ice so there is no movement on floating ice. Bring your GPS to mark the spots.
We also are in need of people with atvs . Large rock is loaded by tractor onto plywood sleds that are pulled by the atvs over the holes where they dump themselves. The more atvs the faster the event will go. Atvs are allowed for this event only.

Sportsmen will meet at 8 30am , in the parking lot near Lakeside Bait n Tackle. Also check Shabbona lake.com for any last minute changes. I would appreciate anyone that has an ATV , or group of people coming out to contact me so we can better plan for the event. Contact Rich McElligott 815 824 2523 or [email protected] . You can also let them know at the bait shop.