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WindyCityTavernMy brother and I decided to meet for a week fishing some lakes and ponds in Missouri. Neither of us have ever been there. It's been awesome so far and we still have several days to go! We have access to a canoe. The first evening my brother hooked a 6-pounder on a wacky worm as the first fish...
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Other Rivers/TributariesIt's been cold, slow and rainy unfortunately the past two weeks. I'd like for the rain to hold off but to lower the current but it's not my call. Temps getting into the 30s at night. * Two lost musky on spinning rods, of course nothing but smallies over the past week or so. Maybe 15 or 20...
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TournamentsThis weekend was the IHSA state championship at Lake Carlyle. We prefished for 3 or 4 hours Thursday, which was cut short by a thunderstorm and water pump issue. We managed 4 keepers, which all came on 4 similar pieces of structure on same style baits. We were feeling pretty good about catching...
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Busse LakeIt's been since my last post on Busse that I caught a fish there, rough month indeed. I trekked a majority of the foot-accessable S. Pool over that time as well, skunk city. I decided to work the S as I'd gotten frustrated with the trend of catches in the N. Pool. It'd been a mighty long time...
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