Dale Bowman
Outdoors Columnist
Another sign that this might go down as the year of big coho salmon on southern Lake Michigan with a catch of a 18.4-pound coho out of Waukegan.
Bret Cavanaugh and Alex Bielfeldt will be the first to reach Nationals in any sport out of Reed-Custer High School when they fish the Bassmaster High School National Championship Aug. 1-3 on Tennessee’s Chickamauga Lake.
A photo of a night heron on the Chicago River, a question on a bee in Bourbonnais and a note on grouse drumming in Wisconsin are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Capt. Ernesto Amparan on his Thin Blue Line Fishing charter Saturday found a dead 5-foot sturgeon, which they first thought was a body. It brought up other notable sturgeon encounters in the Chicago area and what the species’ status is in Illinois.
The year of the coho keeps rolling on southern Lake Michigan and summer patterns for bass and catfish settle in to lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.
Andy Mironov caught his personal-best largemouth bass in heavy weather Sunday to earn Fish of the Week.
A big dead sturgeon was originally mistaken for a body Saturday near the R4 buoy off the north suburbs.
Animals have faults and frailties, too, and often do not live up to our idealist vision of them in the real wacky world of the outdoors.
A black morph of a red fox kit in Lockport and butterfly close-ups in Villa Park are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.