Here’s to doubling down on top-end predators for Fish of the Week.
Eric Stark messaged last week from ChiYak Adventures camp, “Shore camp this week. . . . This kid probably deserves fish of the week.”
Yes, Jakub Stachura, 11, does. He caught a muskie from the Fox River, “somewhere between St. Charles and Batavia.”
The muskie, which became the record big fish for ChiYak Adventures camp, came on a live bluegill.
“We didn’t measure, wanted to release good. . . . I’d say 34 [inches],” Stark messaged.
Chris Johns holds a big flathead catfish he caught Friday from the Kankakee River.
Then there was Chris Johns, who knows flathead catfish, catching a 43-pound flathead Friday night on the Kankakee River below the Kankakee Dam.
“The big one bit right when I was packing up to leave,” he messaged.
It also hit a live bluegill.
FOTW, the celebration of big fish and their stories (the stories matter, as this one shows) around Chicago fishing, runs Wednesdays in the paper Sun-Times.
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