Northern Illinois: Dave Kranz from Dave’s
Northern Illinois: Dave Kranz from Dave’s Bait, Tackle & Taxidermy in Crystal Lake reports: “Catfishing on the Fox River has been very good. Use a large sucker or cut bait for flatheads. Use stink bait or night crawlers for channel cats. Dropshot with a spinshot hook, a ¼-ounce weight and use a Roboworm or Big Bite straight tail worm for largemouth or smallmouth bass. This has been working well ...
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Freshwater fishing report
May 18, 2012
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Fishy weekend
A fishermen shows the crowd his albino catfish which he caught during Saturday's Bass Pro Shop's Big Cat Quest Tournament at New Madrid. There were 25 teams taking part in the event, which Ken Freeman, the promoter for the event, described as a "shootout of the big guns" in catfishing.
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Fishing this week
HOT SPOTS 1. ARKANSAS RIVER (MAUMELLE POOL) Bream fishing is excellent using crickets and red worms around cypress knees and in lily pad fields. Crappie fishing is good using yo-yos with live minnows. Anglers are catching bass flipping creature baits and topwater baits in the mornings. Try Rattlin’ Rogues or buzzbaits. Catfishing is excellent using chicken hearts, cut shad, skipjack or rice ...
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Outdoor adventures: Coping with Mother Nature's inconsistency
Eric Klett, a 20-year-old angler from Rock Falls, caught this 8-pound, 3-ounce shovelnose sturgeon – his first – near the Lyndon roadside boat launch on the Rock River. The fish was just 3 ounces shy of the state and national record. It was 34 1/4 inches in length.
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