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12-13-2013, 09:53 AM #1
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Midwest fishing
Alright here goes, I'm an exiled high country kid living in the greater Chicago area. Anyone have experience out here. I've fished Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa but tying to lit travel time. Any pointers would be helpful
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12-13-2013, 11:01 AM #2
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Andy and his crew at Chi Fly Outfitters are good dudes and super helpful. Check them out.
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12-13-2013, 11:07 AM #3
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Isn't there some sort of lake nearby? I lived in Chicago for about 6 years and my only real exercise was biking the lakefront trail up and down Lincoln/Grant Park. I used to see plenty of anglers along the breakwaters and the numbers would soar into the hundreds (maybe thousands) when the salmon were milling around the shore. I wasn't fishing in those years but I'd stop and watch guys pulling in some big fish. My friend who fly fished out of Chicago went to the creeks and small rivers of Indiana and southern Michigan for the runs of lake salmonids. Said some of the creeks got so stacked with small steelhead that he'd get up to 30 takes in a day of nymphing egg patterns under an indicator
http://www.ifishillinois.org/lmich/Last edited by neckdeep; 12-13-2013 at 11:24 AM.
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12-13-2013, 06:33 PM #4
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Yeah, I'm straight on a trout stream, I've been reading up on fishing in the area bit looking to link up with someone with a little know how in big water Great Lakes fishing.
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12-13-2013, 07:42 PM #5
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Thank you though
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12-13-2013, 07:56 PM #6
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Left coast of the mitten. Big Man, Muskegon, winter chrome.
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12-17-2013, 02:30 PM #7
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Great Lakes Chrome.
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04-23-2014, 09:48 AM #8
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Bump.
I'm going on my second summer in Chicago and want to get back into fly fishing. Snapt, I'm planning on going to see Andy at Chicago Fly Outfitters to get setup and hopefully get more educated on fishing in the area. I would appreciate any other local tips that the collective may have.
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04-23-2014, 07:58 PM #9
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Summer skamania action on the St. Joe!
Are you looking at staying local, or doing a little traveling as well?
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04-24-2014, 12:37 PM #10
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Looking to stay local for the most part since I'm on the road pretty much all week. That said, I'm open to a weekend trip once a month or so.
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04-24-2014, 02:17 PM #11
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just moved back to Midwest and have been having good times chasing browns in the Driftless Area. not local from chi but not far
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04-24-2014, 11:53 PM #12Hugh Conway Guest
snapping turtle fishing? those fuckers got teeth
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04-26-2014, 11:03 AM #13
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Good to know. Thanks, Brizz.
It definitely looks like an area worth exploring.
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05-06-2014, 02:33 PM #14
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People using spinning rods/reels are catching Browns and some Coho from the breakwater (and other locations
) in Milwaukee.
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05-09-2014, 10:08 PM #15
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^^^ examples
Couple of browns, around 4lbs each
and a salmon (chinook?) 3-ish lbs
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07-02-2014, 09:54 AM #16
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I've been catching muskies on the Fox Chain.
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09-12-2014, 10:33 AM #17
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Kings will be coming in to the Big Man, Muskegon & other MI left coast rivers very soon.
"Those 1%ers are not an avaricious "them" but in reality the most entrepreneurial of "us". If we had more of them and fewer grandstanding politicians, we would all be better off."
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09-26-2014, 01:08 AM #18
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Joining any community is like a trend in these days sometimes people joined for getting some entertainment but sometime they want to get useful information and knowledge from other community members. I am new in thins forum and want to find out good friends i found this community is highly interesting.
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10-21-2014, 03:59 PM #19
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No fall Chrome pics yet?
"Those 1%ers are not an avaricious "them" but in reality the most entrepreneurial of "us". If we had more of them and fewer grandstanding politicians, we would all be better off."
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