Notes come from round Chicago open air.
WILD OF THE WEEK
Curt Pazdro despatched this bear picture from final weekend on a fishing journey together with his All-American son Wyatt to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. I’ll seize any probability to run a bear picture.
WOTW, the celebration of untamed tales and images round Chicago open air, runs most weeks within the particular two-page open air part within the Sun-Times Sports Saturday. Send nominations to @BowmanOutdoors on Twitter or Instagram, to Dale Bowman on Facebook or electronic mail BowmanOutdoors@gmail.com.
WILD TIMES
HUNTER SAFETY
Oct. 11-12: Dyer, Ind., (219) 515-2197
Oct. 12-13: Joliet, (815) 727-4811
Oct. 19-20: Tinley Park, (708) 342-4200
TRAPPING CLASS
Saturday: Sept. 28: Joliet, (815) 727-4811
DUCKS UNLIMITED
Friday: Sept. 27: Fox River Valley dinner, Gaslite Manor Banquets, Aurora. Contact John Tricoci, (847) 456-7641
U.S. COAST GUARD AUXILIARY
Today, Sept. 23: Des Plaines, Chas. Hague, sailnrails@gmail.com
DALE’S MAILBAG
File picture of American white pelicans on Lake Dale.Provided by Bill Peak
“For about three weeks in August, we noticed a flotilla of pelicans on the pond alongside the Old Plank Road bike path, the one between Central and Ridgeland Avenues, the headwaters of Butterfield Creek. . . . They disappeared, however a lone pelican has been on the pond this week. We’re used to seeing them on the Illinois River close to Starved Rock, however that is the farthest north (and east) we’ve ever noticed them. Does this sound uncommon to you?’’ Patty Houlihan
A: Unusual? Yes. Unheard of? No. Illinois has lengthy been on the jap fringe of their migration. In latest years, Braidwood Lake has even develop into a daily cease for squadrons of American white pelicans. I nonetheless marvel at them.
BIG NUMBER
91.87: Pounds of a blue catfish caught by Tim Spence final Saturday throughout within the inaugural Alton Catfish Classic, in response to The Telegraph. Click right here for the story.
LAST WORD
“Hey you by no means know, particularly presently of the yr. They’re like the great witch in “The Wizard of Oz,’’ they arrive and go so rapidly round right here. LOL.’’
Stacey Greene at Park Bait, on the approaching and goings at Montrose Harbor of salmon and trout in fall.