took a ride, saw some open water. too much shore line ice to access the open water so that temptation was removed.

today it's too cold for me to even consider putting the waders on

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I'm older than this one

River is about normal flow, a lot more ice building up. If the weather report for next week is right, it will be frozen over for the most part. The spot I really wanted too fish was just to dangerous to get to with all the ice and the steep, big rock strewn shoreline. No sense busting a leg ...

Got a smallmouth on Christmas day and New Years Day, nothing on the Eves. Symmetry there , groove and dig it.

River a tad over normal flow, off color, still a lot of ice on slack areas. Second day of a warming trend, nice not to have ice in the guides or chips flying off the line in your face. Overcast, ended up with some rain. As I was driving to the area I was going to fish I saw some herons feeding in an ...

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37 miles one way , Bourbonnais to Homewood, about 45 minutes. 5 to 20 minutes to just about any place I want to fish on the Kankakee. used to be 10 minutes to work , about an hour to the river. i'll take the longer commute to work , besides I work 3 to 11, traffic isn't really an issue. more ...

I've had trips like that.