Early Sunday morning Capt. Ernesto Amparan of Skinny Blue Line Fishing LLC stuck an enormous northern pike whilst scouting for smallmouth bass close to the Playpen on Chicago’s lakefront together with his friend David Vasquez.“I used to be casting a three/8-ounce smokey pearl jig plastic tube and began round 5:30 a.m. alongside the northwest wall,” he emailed. “On my fourth forged, the jig was once overwhelmed. The usage of 12-pound fluorocarbon, I briefly loosened the drag to steer clear of a break-off. My friend David controlled to web this monster.”After the photograph, it was once launched. The 43-inch pike had an unofficial weight simply heavier than 20 kilos.FOTW, the birthday celebration of huge fish and their tales (the tales topic) round Chicago fishing, runs Wednesdays within the paper Solar-Occasions.To make submissions, e-mail (BowmanOutside@gmail.com) or touch me on Fb (Dale Bowman), X (@BowmanOutside), Instagram (@BowmanOutside) or Bluesky (@BowmanOutside.bsky.social).
