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Former Whitman County Commissioner Nora Mae Keifer-Olfs died Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at the age of 89 in Spokane at Faith Adult Family Home after a brief illness.
Credit: Dale Bowman
I never thought I would see a year like 2020 on Lake Michigan.
Chinook and coho salmon records in Illinois stood unchallenged for more than 40 years but anglers came close in 2020.
I wondered what 2021 might bring (assuming the weather will break).
On June 20, 2020, Dale Rehus and Chris Ranney went out of Waukegan in Rehus’ boat, ‘‘Delirious’’ and set up on South Reef as the sun rose.
Then lost six straight big fish, until Ranney landed one on a meat rig on a downrigger. They estimated it at as a Chinook around 17 pounds. But when Ranney was prepping to clean it, all their friends said it was a coho. Ranney jumped on a scale with and without the fish and had 18.6 pounds, close to the Illinois record (20 pounds, 9 ounces) caught by Carry VandeVusse on May 24, 1972, in Lake County waters.