Laurance Reed walks a historic path of shore fishing for salmon and trout in Chicago.
Since mid-August, he has caught a pink salmon in the hump mode, a Chinook and, last week, a coho while shore fishing on the North Side with a K.O. Wobbler.
“Same spot, same lure, same rod and reel, same knot (not recommended - should retie) same time, same hat, only it’s a coho this time,” he emailed last week. “Oh, and same `I just caught a fish!’ smile.
“Now we need a steelhead and a brown trout next?”
Why not go for all six and hope on a lake trout, too?
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.
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