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There's something to be said for meandering. Didn't you meander as a kid, simply walking with friends, picking up rocks and pennies, not knowing exactly where you would end up? Riff on the meandering mode of family fun in a canoe or kayak, picking u...
Updated: May 20, 2011 at 08:49 AM
The Fox Waterway Agency announced Friday that no-wake restrictions have been lifted from the lower Fox River between the Algonquin Dam to the Stratton-Bolger Lock and Dam in McHenry. The announcement comes a day after the same restriction was lifted...
Updated: May 06, 2011 at 05:48 PM
Fox Waterway Agency Executive Director Ingrid Danler will leave the agency at the end of May, officials said Friday.
Danler, 45, who has led the FWA for 13 years, announced during a Thursday board meeting she will step down May 24. She is taking a ...
Updated: May 01, 2011 at 10:46 AM
A no-wake restriction has been imposed on the Chain O’ Lakes and Fox River north from the Algonquin Dam, because of high water brought on by long periods of heavy rain in Illinois and Wisconsin, the Fox Waterway Agency in Fox Lake announced Wednesda...
Updated: Apr 28, 2011 at 06:08 AM
Spring has finally shown its lovely face to anglers. Here’s what’s happening on the home waters:
Fox River: Good bass and panfish angling on the main river as well as channels downstream from the McHenry dam.
Fox Chain: Crappie and bluegill ...
Updated: Apr 14, 2011 at 09:16 PM
It appears that industry ramrod Keith Ogulnick will be riding range again when the National Marine Manufacturers Association kicks in to high gear as the owner of the 2012 Rosemont Sportfishing, Travel and Outdoors Show.
Jim Sugarman, former owner o...
Updated: Mar 31, 2011 at 07:15 AM
Lake and McHenry county officials are watching the Fox and Des Plaines rivers as recent heavy rain has caused the waterways to swell to the month.
If current forecast models remain true and the rain slows down and turns to snow as expected, the Fox...
Updated: Mar 22, 2011 at 05:37 PM
I never thought I would utter the words “good riddance” to the cold weather gear and the ice tent, but it has been a long and arduous spell of fighting off the cold, snow and frustration.
Of course the harsh weather we just experienced was the same...
Updated: Mar 16, 2011 at 01:21 PM
When you jump around in the water at Harold Hall Quarry Beach in Batavia, your feet don’t land on the bottom of the former quarry.
Your toes are on 1 to 2 feet of beach sand. Below that is a fabric membrane, below that there is supposed to be a 4-in...
Updated: Mar 16, 2011 at 12:38 PM
It was one of those chilly, rainy days, and I decided to invest some time tying flies.
In between concocting my own styles of streamside creatures, I moved between the fly desk and the computer. And as luck would have it, there was a rather lengthy...
Updated: Mar 02, 2011 at 08:58 PM