Articles filed under Outdoors
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Ralph Frese memorial canoe trip is SundayApr 12, 2013 5:25 pm - Forest Preserve District of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, General Superintendent Arnold Randall and Marc Miller, director of the Illinois Department of N...
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First year rowing club a big hit for St. Charles studentsApr 11, 2013 4:51 pm - D. Tyler Miller spent his youth and college years as a competitive rower developing his shoulders, lats and legs. Now he’s got your back. Last August the California tran...
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The verdict is in, and it’s time to go fishingApr 10, 2013 3:31 pm - Yes, ready or not, the fishing season is here and off and running. Some of the angling brethren have been acting a bit like wild children who’ve been sequestered for an ...
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Big fun right now chasing shallow-water brownsApr 10, 2013 11:04 am - Have we angered the weather gods? Is there a possibility some outer space planetary misalignment is causing this country to suffer through the constant, never-ending sti...
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Anglers lose another legend in HannonApr 03, 2013 3:31 pm - We weren’t friends for very long, but the time factor really didn’t matter in this case. Doug Hannon, 66, a legend in the fishing world known as the “Bass Professor” for...
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Suggestions for fishing destinations far and nearApr 03, 2013 11:04 am - I used to keep track of the emails asking me where “they” should go for a fishing vacation? But I lost count after the tally soared way past 500. And here’s the really i...
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Cook County trout season opens April 6Mar 28, 2013 2:30 pm - Trout fishing season opens Saturday, April 6 in Cook County in three locations — Axehead and Belleau Lakes in Des Plaines/Park Ridge and Sag Quarry-East in Lemont. From ...
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EPA reports trouble in river, stream conditionsMar 27, 2013 7:00 pm - Some of us already know that pollution rears its ugly head in many of our streams and rivers. But now the Environmental Protection Agency has taken its well-intentioned ...
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Can't catch whiff of suburban smelt fishermen these daysMar 26, 2013 5:00 am - In March of 1986, fans of the Chicago Bulls were wondering when, or if, their young injured superstar would make it back onto the court in time for the playoffs. The Chi...
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Trout season’s just around the cornerMar 20, 2013 4:31 pm - If the air temperature is below 15 degrees, it must be spring, eh? Spring-schming, it’s colder than a mortgage payment out there. But it also means the catchable tr...