Dupage 5/1 & 5/2

[Frank Macikas]

Well plans didnt work out like I thought they would; turns out both pontoon boats had valve problems with one of them being completely broken and unable to hold any air at all. This on top of a late night Saturday turned Sunday into a short but still somewhat productive day on the water. I was out in the Shorewood and Channahon areas Saturday and Sunday and picked up quite a few nice fish. Saturday I was in the Hammel Woods area; smallest fish was 13.5" and the largest just over 17". My buddy picked up two the first lost at hand and it was a NICE fish the second wasnt bad either that pic is below. Sunday I fished off of Canal Rd. in Channohon for about an hour and picked up 4 fish most around 13" and one around 16" (I forgot my tape). Right now water levels are up slighty but still perfect for wading. Water on Saturday was gin clear but after the rains Saturday night have clouded up the water a little but still have a good 3 feet of clarity or more. Majority of fish right now I found are either in slowmoving or slack water next to deeper water or still guarding nests. The fish that are not on the nests are getting very agressive and willing to chase baits. I had a couple follows from a real pig on a rebel craw coming through the deeper water but couldnt get her to strike. The algea is REALLY bad all up and down the river so best baits lately are weedless rigged plastics; berkley power craws in watermelon flake are working best for me. Here are a couple pics from Hammel and the last from Canal rd. Only took one pic at Canal I was by myself and too tired to be messing around with trying to use the timer.

[MattC]

Nice job out there, too bad about the pontoons.

[Ken G]

I saw on Chitown that a few guys would like you to keep your mouth shut about the DuPage. I would ignore them.

Really, from the two branches to the Illinois, how many miles is that?
How much is accessible from shore?

Let's see, 12 years of writing about the Fox, guiding, fishing classes . . . Dale estimates maybe 100,000 read his Wednesday report in the paper. Then there used to be the 50,000 a month that would read about it in Outdoor Notebook.

I've been talking about and showing Orchard Road for 10 years. The other day I finally ran into a couple of other guys fishing the area. That's after almost 4 years of not running into anyone.

Oh the poor river. It's ruined. The horror of it all.

[Ken G]

Here's one of your images resized and cropped. 8" X 6" or 576 X 432 pixels at 72 ppi. That's all you ever need for posts. Bigger is just wasting bandwidth.



My daughter showed me something called picnik.com

It's an online photo editor that looked pretty cool. Had a lot of the Photoshop features I use available to use with one click. Check it out. I'm tempted to use it. Photoshop is a dog by comparison and for picture posting, picnik seems to do everything you need.