Fly Tying and Fishing Show
I've been remiss in mentioning this and it's coming up this weekend, Saturday, January 21, 2012 from 9 A.M to 4:30 P.M. The Illinois Smallmouth Alliance is putting on a…
The Smallmouth Brook Trout Bass
As far as I can tell, the rivers and streams where trout live flow through all of the states in the U.S. except for Illinois. Which is where I live.…
Last Fish of the Year
Apparently my intolerance for cold is long standing. I remember hating it as a kid. December of 2001, I wrote this in a post: In my nightmares, hell has 3…
A Drive Down Memory Lane
The first week of September I purposely decided to take myself out of the loop. I let my writing drop off. I decided for the rest of the year I…
Fishing Reports for the Refined
Over the past 15 years I've got to know some of the best anglers that fish the rivers and streams, the lakes and ponds in the Greater Chicagoland Area. From…
Night Time, Cold Water, Fox River Walleye
It's that time of year when anglers that are still out angling on the Fox River have turned there attention to Ol' Marble-eye. That's right, it's walleye time. The air…
Funny How? Funny Like a Clown?
Well, I thought it was a little amusing anyway. No, not the picture. Nine months out of the year my car has everything in it that I could possibly need…
Up a Creek, Again
The plan for the day was to go out to Marseilles State Fish and Wildlife Area to do some squirrel hunting. Only I had forgot that it was closed on…
Fishing the Fox in the Wind and the Rain
You got the river, a relatively thin strip of shoreline, a bike path, sometimes a guard rail and the road. It goes on like this for a couple of miles,…