Stray Casts

Stray Casts will intelligently report and observe, hopefully with a touch of wit, on daily occurrences, reports and releases related to Chicago-area outdoors from bucks to bass to birds to bugs


stormtight.jpg Mulling things on my morning ramble

with Storm, the family's mixed Lab.

It only seems apt to run the Stray Cast here.

Hints of shoreline perch, spawning fish all around and the opening of muskie season in northern Wisconsin lead this lakes section of the Midwest Fishing Report heading into the holiday weekend.

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turkeybeard.jpgThe cold wet spring

put a downer on Illinois' spring turkey season.

Jim Reed talks paddling in general and about his decades of experiences in providing paddling opportunities for thousands along the mighty Kankakee River this afternoon on Outside.

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Mulling things on my morning ramble with Storm, the family's mixed Lab.

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Mulling things on my morning ramble with Storm, the family's mixed Lab.

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