oak creek gives up a brown trout

Fishing with Damien is always alot of fun. He is top notch at knowing exactly when to give a fly that subtle twitch. He proves it again with a nice (estimated 8 pound) brown trout taken from a deep bend on an egg sucking leach. taken on the twitch oak creek brown trou...

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ice fishing lake geneva part 2

As my friends in the fishing world grow so do the number of reports that get sent to me via email and text. I've been fishing with Randal (a long time friend of Neal) for 3 years and would put him toe to toe with the best of them. He always seems to be the first who is calling the jig color that puts the rest of us on the bite. On his last trip to Lake Geneva he came back with some real toads...

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the pike river in early spring

Neal sent over some photos earlier of the pike river just a short walk from home. Looks like almost all the ice gone and the river was as cold as he had ever felt it. No Fish sighted but steelhead conditions look promising. pike river in racine wisconsin ...

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another local blogger steps up to the plate

Nick from Brookfield Angler is another local blogger from the greater Chicago-land area that is just starting to establish a name for himself. I just recently came across this site from a local fishing forum and spent some time giving his site a read. Even though the site is in its early stages, I found the content and writing thoughtfull and to the point.  brookfieldangler.com Being...

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ice fishing lake geneva wisconsin

Our friend Randal sent these shots over this evening from his trip today to Lake Geneva, Wi. Looks like he got a nice mixed bag with some good size fish... a nice lake geneva bluegill a lake geneva pike lake geneva crappie ...

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tip up bass - hardwater angler 4

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angler in training - hardwater angler 3

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late winter sunfish in northern illinois

Plans were made with the attempt to give us the shortest walk to reach a decent fishing destination this weekend. If Neal and I were going to fish then we wanted to pull our cumbersome sleds the shortest distance through the 2 foot snow drifts as possible. This was a small lake that had its main point just a couple minutes from good parking . This is one of the few times we have actually gotten...

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late winter panfish on petite lake

Sorry for the late report but all is well here in Northern Illinois and we survived the Blizzard of 2011. With work early this week and digging out of the nearly 24 inches of snow dumped on us Tuesday and Wednesday I’ve been admittedly quite busy. Nonetheless, I was a part of a large group of friends that made it out on Petite Lake for some late winter ice fishing just prior to our big storm. petite...

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