Out With the Kids
My good friend, Bob Long, Jr., is "The Fishin' Guy!" with the Chicago Park District. He is the Coordinator of Mayor Daley's Fish`N Kids Program. Each year they get over…
Fox River Kayak Chute
Monday morning I had a few errands to run and one of them included sitting. The parking lot that overlooks the Yorkville dam was empty. Snowplows had yet to make…
Fox River Eagles so far for 2011
It seems that the area ponds froze over sooner than usual. December was a pretty cold month that had almost all of the days below normal. This brought a lot…
Fox River Eagles – Winter 2010
I wrote this around the first week of February 2010. The eagle sightings seem to be the highest throughout the month of January. Less open water in the area, but…
Fox River Eagles – Winter 2009
I saw my first Fox River eagle in the winter about 6 years ago. It was drifting lazily on a slight wind above open water somewhere between Montgomery and Oswego.…
Favorite Outdoor Place – Fox River
I have a good half dozen posts, articles, call them what you will, in my head that I should be writing. But they seem to be stuck there. I have…
For my Fellow Iceaphobes – The Plan
Even as adults we have fears, baseless or not. I know many that leave night lights on in their houses even though they have no kids. More lights surround their…
For my Fellow Iceaphobes – The Prelude
Though I'm a bass angler, primarily smallmouth bass from any water of any size that flows, I tend to read more about trout and trout fishing. This is mainly because…
Of Bucket Lists and New Years Resolutions
Toward the end of any given year it seems that you start to read more about making bucket lists and New Years resolutions. I don't recall ever doing either. I'm…