Steve Sarley
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Sarley: The pleasures of a visit to the Upper Peninsula and fishing Lake SuperiorJul 23, 2025 10:20 am - Every year I take a trip with my family to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is one of the most perfect places I have ever been to in my life.
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Sarley: My dream destination is a conventionJul 16, 2025 10:55 am - If I had to pick just one place I’d like to visit before my days are done, it would be making a return visit to the annual ICAST Convention. What? This guy must be out of his mind. Sarley’s gone goofy. Alert the authorities.
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Sarley: Advice for keeping your live bait alive during a hot Illinois summerJul 09, 2025 10:34 am - I’ve talked to you all before about the effectiveness of using live bait when you are fishing. Please realize that the key word in this subject is “live.” Keeping your ba...
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Sarley: Why some captains won’t allow bananas on their fishing boatsJul 02, 2025 11:45 am - The world of sports has a strong connection to luck and superstition.
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Sarley: Why I changed my mind and started using fishing guidesJun 25, 2025 10:00 am - Guides are great for learning a new body of water. Guides are tremendous if you’re interested in learning a new technique. Guides are excellent instructors if you’d like to have an encounter with a species of fish you haven’t caught before. Here are a few local good ones.
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Sarley: The best way to get kids to enjoy fishingJun 18, 2025 5:23 pm - I hope all of you enjoyed a wonderful Father’s Day. I wish I could have gone fishing with my kids to celebrate. My wife and I have three kids and one grandchild, 2-year-o...
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Sarley: Reader benefits from fishing tip, explains why sportsmen are also environmentalistsJun 11, 2025 4:55 pm - I love getting mail from readers. Connecting with a reader enough to get them to open their keyboard and respond to me gives me a charge that is hard to explain. I love e...
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Sarley: Why don’t more people use ‘wacky’ worms while fishing?Jun 04, 2025 10:41 am - Last week we talked about drop shotting plastic baits, and now we will deal with the technique that’s become known as “wacky” worms. These are certainly not new methods. They’ve been around for a while, but it amazes me that there are an awful lot of people who haven’t tried them out.
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Sarley: Recent developments have revolutionized fishing with plastic luresMay 28, 2025 11:19 am - I started fishing with live bait. I grew into using lures on a regular basis. To this day, I still think that live bait out-catches artificials. I think that fishing wit...
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Sarley: The morel of the story? Time is running out for picking this local delicacyMay 21, 2025 4:44 pm - The best season for avid morel mushroom hunters is coming to a close. Our crazy Northern Illinois weather patterns have blessed the morel hunting community with what may have been the best mushroom collecting recently.