Rock bass are a waste of time. Go up to Winthrop Harbour, it's only an hour from Chicago. Hit the Nuke Plant's lake front discharge. If you cast spoons and deep divers you will pick up a lot of brown trout. I live in the Chicago suburbs, and it kills me to fish in the city, fishermen weren't meant to be surrounded by skyscrapers and pollution.
Rock bass are a waste of time.
Go up to Winthrop Harbour, it's only an hour from Chicago.