Kev-mo

Wow! ! That's pretty messed up, the link is live and quite the massive fire!

"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." Dr. Seuss

17 hours ago, Terry Dodge said:

Plus it’s Illinois FREE Fishing Weekend.

My bad. 🙄

That may not be the ideal weekend for an outing....could be pretty crowded

Down! Might guilt the youngest into joining me for dad's day.... lol

What John said!! 

Who's the music by?

The really sad part (aside from maiming the planet.....) is the amount of food that is thrown out every single day. So much waste 😥

Sweet!!!!!

Thanks for posting Eric!

Thanks for putting this together Paul and Terry!! Nice to see everyone and spend some time on the water. Looking forward to the next one.

So,,,, I'll be there

2 hours ago, Scott Ferguson said:

I got a message from Kevin Daly who wants to participate but there is nothing there to tell people exactly where the launch is. Hopefully, someone can post the location. 

Should be Bauman Park based on the float I did several years ago. Assume Paul or Terry will confirm

I won't know for sure until Friday afternoon. Sorry i can't commit before then, stuff..... 

I'll try to make this one.

I really wish they would do this earlier. I mean they probably wait til it';s warmer and more comfortable but so much plant growth hides a lot of the garbage by this time. Along with poison ivy and other nasties having already emerged.

I guess it's good that's it's even being done and so consistently!

Not sure they'll be this far north, this isn't the brood that hits northern illinois. I don't think that brood is due till 2024.

With that said the torpedo sounds like  an excellent idea!

I'm interested, will check back in when it's closer

totally spaced on this. glad you recorded!!!

11 hours ago, Terry Dodge said:

Unfortunately there was a glitch, and recording of Gordon’s seminar was not completed. We now know what the glitch was and we feel confident that the problem will not occur again. Sorry.

Thanks Gordon! Job well done.

ohh man that's a bummer, i couldn't make it live and was looking forward to the vid. glad you figured out the issue!

On 2/5/2021 at 9:45 AM, Mark K said:

Does anyone know how far they have made it yet?  Are they already in the Des Plaines? The electric fence on the Sanitary and Ship Canal is at 135th Street (Romeoville Rd.) and visible from the bridge over it. I don't know how true this is but someone told me that you can see them from there.  Also east of there are is 12 miles of physical fencing (from 135th street to Romeoville rd. to at least Willow Springs rd. ) that the Army Corp installed.  I think this is to keep potential invasives in the Des Plaines from getting into the canal. .  Are they already there?  

the 2018 Des Plaines basin survey from the idnr/iepa says no

36 minutes ago, gordon p said:

Sad but necessary choice.  Hope by late Spring we see signs of hope for normalcy.  

x2 on the sad and necessary

woo!!!

happy new year!!!

7 hours ago, Terry Dodge said:

Reading is not always a good thing.

agreed 

i saw that also. the Linders sure did a lot for fishing and it sounds like Ron did a lot for the community. 

you could also look back on past posts on this site and others

here's a book that has been mentioned before; Stream Smallmouth Fishing - Book by Tim Holschlag

thanks for the memory jog Scott. we took a family trip there when i was a teeneager and we swam below the falls and i think we even body surfed over them

maybe some prominent wealthy people need to go fish the menominee.....

and what's the deal with this? "Mine supporters say the project would bring year-round jobs to an area that badly needs them and provide minerals the nation needs." do we really have a mineral shortage? maybe find whoever is hoarding all the coins and melt those down as i'm sure this is the beginning of the end of currency. and maybe some areas just shouldn't have that many year round jobs?

i don't know.... it hasn't been working too well so maybe we need to do it differently?