Guide to Carlyle Lake, the largest manmade lake within Illinois with more than 26,000 acres of water and 11,000 acres of land. Guide to fishing, camping, boating, hunting, dining, lodging, and much more. Carlyle Lake offers good fishing for crappie, white bass, largemouth bass, bluegill, channel and flathead catfish, freshwater drum and carp. Other species commonly caught are green sunfish, yellow bass, yellow and black bullheads.

Streamflow Conditions. Streamgages are used nationwide to predict and address drought and flood conditions by monitoring water availability. The USGS and over 850 Federal, State, and local agencies cooperatively fund the USGS streamgaging network, which consists of over 8,000 streamgages.