Spring signs come for area fishermen--walleye in the rivers, and coho and brown trout on the Lake Michigan lakefront. Witness North Sider Tyler Peterson with a good start on Sunday at the south wall of Waukegan Harbor.

``He nailed two brown trout--3.4 pounds and 4.6 pounds--in three hours of fishing,'' his buddy Tim O'Meara emailed. ``Not a bad start to the 2012 fishing season! GO CUBS!''

It's good to be half right in life.

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