A Simple Afternoon of Fishing
The last I heard, here in the Chicago area this was the mildest winter in 75 years. You would think this would be an ideal setup for the creek fishing…
Blackberry Creek Dam Removal — Day One
To play catch up, you can read the past progress reports here. ____________ From my vantage point on the south side of the Fox River, I could see that there…
Attack of the Killer Gnats
Yes, I know they're midges. If I would have used that word instead, everyone would think this had something to do with teenage girls from the early 60s named Midge…
Blackberry Creek Dam Removal
To play catch up, you can read the past progress reports here. ____________ The following article on the Blackberry Creek Dam Removal and the fixing of the River Road bridge…
I was going fishing,
the fish would be there
On March 1st, the start of meteorological spring, winter decided to make an attempt to assert its presence. Something it had pretty much failed to do for the previous three…
The things in my yard, or…
...why my neighbors avoid me. For some reason my wife agreed to this. Some vague plan to use it as a planter, or something like that. With the river muskie…
Gobble, gobble, gobble…
Was out driving around the other day when a bunch of black specks out in a field, close to a tree line, caught my eye. Of course I had to…
Fishing on the Extra Day of This Year
The morning wake up from my wife coming home from third shift working hell started with "it's nice out there." This was enough to get me crawling out of bed…
A Little Premature
At 10 am this morning I went for a walk in the neighborhood. My wife saw some flowers growing on the side of a hill around the corner from where…