Articles filed under Outdoors
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Struggling to catch fish? Try different colored luresSep 26, 2024 6:00 am - If you’re struggling to catch fish, you might want to try different colored lures.
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Here’s a fishing book that’s hard to put downSep 19, 2024 6:00 am - There aren’t a lot of fishing books available outside of the “how-to” kind of hardcovers you might find at the local book seller. Hard to find one of those places around ...
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The self-appointed social media police should give fishing posts a passSep 12, 2024 6:00 am - I’m a nice guy, I really am. I don’t go out of my way to provoke trouble or arguments. I don’t hurl insults or try to hurt people’s feelings. I try to adhere to the word...
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One last thing about the musky that got away, plus a thought on forward facing sonarSep 05, 2024 6:00 am - I swear I will not write about that big muskie I lost on Eagle Lake in Ontario again after this. After recovering the shock of the lost fish, Spence Petros asked me how I...
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Another high-tech toy taking the fun out of the ancient art of fishingAug 29, 2024 6:00 am - Fishing is an ancient art that has grown from a simple worm on a hook to what we are using today. It didn’t take much to catch fish. Heck, the legendary Lauri Rapala caug...
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Celebrating 100 years: Suburban Girl Scouts to mark centennial of regional campgroundAug 28, 2024 10:22 am - Not every place that’s helped build the childhoods of suburban residents is actually in the suburbs. One such place -- Camp Juniper Knoll in East Troy, Wisconsin -- has been serving Girl Scouts of the Chicago area for exactly 100 years.
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Picking up the fish story of my struggle to land a huge muskyAug 22, 2024 6:00 am - Please allow me to continue last week’s tale of my battle with my monster musky. I was glad that I was in the front of the boat because I followed it when it decided...
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The start of a great fish tale involving a ‘legal’ musky in OntarioAug 15, 2024 6:00 am - My good friend hall of fame fisherman Spence Petros is heading up to Northwest Ontario’s legendary Eagle Lake Friday morning for a week of hunting giant muskies. Sadly, if it weren’t for my current medical condition, I might have been joining him.
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The case for Jim Templin as the best fisherman in IllinoisAug 08, 2024 6:00 am - From loyal reader and rabid fisherman Michael Sopocy: “I saw you were looking for the top fisherman from Illinois. Jim Templin is by far the best fisherman to hail from I...
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A few tips for catching more fishAug 01, 2024 6:00 am - I get asked by a lot of readers for tips on how they can catch more fish. That’s fair, since this is an outdoors column, isn’t it? Take a look at this in a different way,...