Stephen Wardynski nominated his buddy Dave Dempsey for a lake trout caught while perch fishing.
“Caught and released on a hand-tied tinsel jig on [6-pound line test] at Navy Pier,” Wardynski messaged on Instagram.
It’s been an active winter for lakers and steelhead caught by perch anglers, both at Navy Pier and the South Side slips.
FOTW, the celebration of big fish and their stories (the stories matter, as this one shows) around Chicago fishing, runs Wednesdays in the paper Sun-Times. The online posting here at chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors goes up at varied days of the week, depending on what is going on in the wide world of the outdoors.
To make submissions, email (BowmanOutside@gmail.com) or contact me on Facebook (Dale Bowman), Twitter (@BowmanOutside) or Instagram (@BowmanOutside).
