JACKSON COUNTY (WSIL) -- A man died while fishing in Murphysboro Wednesday. The Jackson County Sheriff's Office says a welfare check was requested for Benjamin Sigman, 36 of Freeburg, after failing to ...

Ryan Povolish of Carbondale and Josh Jackson of Cobden never intended to go crappie fishing at Kinkaid Lake on Tuesday, March 28. They had planned to bass fish. Those plans were put on hold ...

The way the rod resisted, Dianna Seymour at first thought her hook was snagged on something at the bottom of Kinkaid Lake. But, she recalled, it didn’t take more than a moment to realize that was a ...

MURPHYSBORO, Ill. -- A 19-year-old man is dead and one person is in custody after an incident at Kinkaid Lake on Friday. The Jackson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO) reported they are investigating what ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - A missing boater’s body was recovered from Kinkaid Lake hours after he went fishing alone. Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a request for a welfare check on ...

Fishing was one of Connor Kincaid's passions. The lifelong Lake in the Hills resident, who died at the age of 22 last August from injuries suffered in an automobile accident, grew up near the ...

Illinois’ mythical 50-inch muskie “barrier” might have been broken quietly last fall when a reputed 53-incher purportedly was caught and released on Downstate Kincaid Lake. The feat was reported in ...

MURPHYSBORO — Jackson County Sheriff's Office released the name of a man who drowned Friday morning in Kinkaid Lake in a news release. The victim was identified as Larry Huffman, 64, of Cape Girardeau ...

JACKSON COUNTY, IL (KFVS) - A Carbondale man did not land the bass he was after when he was fishing on Kinkaid Lake on Tuesday. But, Ryan Povolish did land an unofficial new state record crappie!