Many Rivers to Cross
As I write this, massive violent looking storms have been tracking north to south over Lake Michigan for at least the last 18 hours. I hear they've been raking the…
Waterdog Journal on ChicagoNow
After a month of false starts and delays, the New and Improved ChicagoNow is up and running. And I'm part of it. Waterdog Journal on ChicagoNow SO, you ask, what…
Closer to the City, They’d try to Kill Them Off
There's a massive bug hatch drifting around my neighborhood this morning. The morning sun streaks right down the middle of the street in front of my house and the bugs…
Hectic Schedules, Summer Doldrums and Fishing Ennui
I think I first noticed something was up in the first week of May when Quill Gordon ended a post without placing a fly on the water. Opening Day! It…
Fox River Creeks
In the 15 years I've been fishing the Fox River and it's creeks, I can't recall a time when they've both behaved the way they have for the past few…
It’s Lunch Time My Friend
A long time ago I worked as a janitor, second shift, in Sears Tower. 90 percent of the janitors were Polish. Lunch time would come around. You have to imagine…
The Summer Solstice Tried to Kill Me – Part Three – The End
...The island was covered in trees and the grass was over 3 feet tall. I tried moving through the grass fast only to start tripping on all the logs and…
The Summer Solstice Tried to Kill Me – Part Two
...All week the weather forecast was beginning to sound a lot like The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Every day there had been a call for severe storms. Damaging winds, torrential…
The Summer Solstice Tried to Kill Me – Part One
To be fair to Mother Nature, she doesn't care if we live or die. We're not even a blip on her radar, just another organism on her planet. She goes…