Provided by Ryan Merkel
ILLINOIS’ LAKEFRONT CHINOOK
Hi Dale,
Pete Merkel, my cousin, caught a new boat record for us today out of Winthrop Harbor. (Two photos of the fish are attached below)This king was 28 lbs and 42” long. Hit on a green/white flasher with an Aqua Howie’s fly behind a rigger. We were in 125 feet of water and the rigger was set 110 feet down. Fish took a massive initial run pulling 500+ feet of line off the reel. Great day on the water, we also got a 23 lbs king a just few minutes prior. Not a lot of bites but the two we got were awesome.
It s summer fishing, in other words, pick your fish and go; that basically leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report
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The odd and variable weather has made for some interesting fishing inland for bass, catfish and bluegill and on Lake Michigan for coho, lake trout and steelhead; those two threads lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report
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