Dale Bowman
Outdoors Columnist
Tying together memories, tidbits (blue-eyed freaks) and fishing from this emergence of periodical cicadas and the one in in 2007.
Another observation on the great year for coho fishing, a bush-trimming velvet buck in the suburbs and sandhill cranes on a famous Wisconsin golf course are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Kurt Marks adapted his metholds and caught a string of big carp from the Chicago River, a reminder that the big fish in the system remains the common carp.
Brennan Zimmy, 15, caught his PB largemouth bass and Macky Weathers, 7, caught a big northern pike while trolling for muskie to show the power of young people fishing.
Summer patterns, especially coho and perch, settling in and the start of the Kankakee River Fishing Derby on Friday lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.
Phil Grenchik landed a big walleye while trolling for steelhead last week.
A doe and fawn ambling through the northwest suburbs and signs of a big-coho year on Lake Michigan are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Kelly MacDonald utilizes a broad spectrum approach to teaching and coaching the bass fishing team at Prairie Ridge High School.
A morning of very productive fishing for big fish with new site manager Justin Seibert at Hennepin and Hopper lakes allowed us to talk big fish there and fathers and sons.