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Cold water, hot fishing in the Illinois Walleye Trail finale

JJ DeBernardi of Wayne, Ill., holds up a 4.43-pound saugeye that earned big-fish honors for him and Nate Teauseau of Spring Valley in the Illinois Walleye Trail Championship on Sunday at Hennepin. (Submitted photo)

JJ DeBernardi of Wayne, Ill., holds up a 4.43-pound saugeye that earned big-fish honors for him and Nate Teauseau of Spring Valley in the Illinois Walleye Trail Championship on Sunday at Hennepin. (Submitted photo)

Grady Sandor, an Ottawa fifth-grader, volunteered in Hennepin at the Illinois Walleye Trail tournament, with duties including placing live walleye from the weigh-in into a holding tank until their release back into the Illinois River. (NewsTribune photo)

Chase Rockstead of Shabbona holds up a fat sauger for Illinois Walleye Trail tournament official Scott Trumpinski of Cedar Point to weigh in for the big-fish competition on Sunday at Hennepin. (NewsTribune photo)

Anglers pull up to the dock at Hennepin at the end of the fishing tournament Sunday. (NewsTribune photo)

Max Actis of Spring Valley holds a sauger at the weigh-in during the first of two tournaments over the weekend at Hennepin. Actis and Mike Stuckert finished first in a tournament Saturday sponsored by Hennepin Marine. (submitted photo)