TNM&GB hockey musings IV

rumor has it they're always hitting in the calumet sag. i understand the biggest challenge is getting your line back out of the water fast enough that it doesn't dissolve.

rumor has it they're always hitting in the calumet sag. i understand the biggest challenge is getting your line back out of the water fast enough that it doesn't dissolve.

lol.   I appreciate any furinner that can make a Cal Sag reference.  

If there was an appropriate waterway that could connect the southeastside of Chicago to Gary to Flint, it would be the Cal Sag Channel.    

It's cleaned up now, while still extremely toxic, you could probably fall in and avoid the hospital for hours depending on the time of year.     The newer flourocarbon lines hold up better in the water, but most people still prefer to use high tensile steel chain for fishing line because it's resistant to the corrosive effects of the water and is still able to survive rubbing on the rusted out old cars that decorate the bottom of the channel.    They haven't pulled a body out of there in days now.    

Anglers fish the Cal Sag for the mighty Illinois Muskie, also known as the common carp to the rest of the world.   Snag lines are the true way to fish for them.

On a serious note, the Cal Sag is not safe for swimming yet but the bass fishing is not to bad for an urban body of water (cess pool) if you can believe it.    I was talked into fishing there about 17 years ago or so and pulled out a couple of bass (no carp) fishing like I would any river.    Lake Calumet was a gem of an unknown fishery until Midwest Outdoors did a show there in the mid 90s, then the "urban rednecks" (I relate to them in ways, it's not an insult) hit that @@@@ like a smallmouth bass.     They cleaned it out of the healthy population of Largemouths in 2 years.   The Cal Sag has been gradually improving as a fishery and will continue to until the Asian carp make there in small numbers one of these years.  

I would eat Stripers out of Long Island sound before I ate a fish out of the Cal Sag though. 

The wind was out of the East today, very bad for fishing, it's going to shift to come from the ssw, but I'm not sure if it will be there in time to improve the action tomorrow.   The cooler water shallow should help things out a little bit.     

I'm thinking about bringing my Camo helmet and wallet to the lake, you never know.

When in doubt, I say fish.   



going after my boys i see! haha

lol catfish.    Your boys are safe for now.    Get worried when I go fishing on the mississippi though.     If you're a bullhead, I can't help you there, they're too aggressive not to catch them anywhere.   Flatheads and Channelcats should be safe from me for quite a while. 

lol.   I appreciate any furinner that can make a Cal Sag reference.

in my younger days, i was blessed with repeated opportunities to travel this great land extensively by car, allowing me to see forty-some states up close and personal. (well, ok, i only spent about 5 minutes in west virginia, but it still counts, dammit )

to the punk kids here, if you've never had the chance to get around this country, do it while you can, before you have too many responsibilities, and while you can enjoy it to the utmost. i want to make one more trip to wyoming/montana, while i can still get around the mountains without a wheelchair and oxygen.

but i think the folks from chicagoland could learn something from the shameless self-promoters in south dakota. for hundreds of miles of I-90, and on countless tourist bumper stickers, the question is asked: "Have you dug Wall Drug?"

well, it's never too late. it's time for the people of chicago to ask a question themselves, so let's start the publicity blitz, right now, and right here on CBS Sports.



HAVE YOU SEEN THE SAG???

Good luck, I hope the Blues are hitting. 

Blues would be nice.  So would Kings.  Any other hockey team I can get in here?  Oh, I've been wanting to try dogfish, so I wouldn't mind catching a few Sharks as well.

But yeah, I've been hearing about snapper blues being right in the surf.  Hopefully they're big enough to justify keeping, otherwise I'll use some for bait.  I'll have my ultralight rod handy if there's bluefish action....so much fun to catch them on light tackle.

I like it when people catch fish and give them to me already cleaned and ready to grill.

I live on Lake St Clair in Mi and the water is clear as its been in years because of the Zebra mussels. but the fishing is also bad because of them. I guess freighters from China brought em in a few years back. only got out a few times this year, Im getting low on Walleye so its time to replenish my stock

tark-it's in philly. 8th and market. we do need to grab that beer though.

I like it when people catch fish and give them to me already cleaned and ready to grill

Me too, with rare exceptions.   I find I enjoy fish more when I don't know what body of water they came from.   

So last night, we had our FFB draft at Harrah's Casino in Atlantic City. After we finished we walked around and gambled a bit. Well, I had on my Jon Dorenbos Eales jersey. He's the long snapper, so I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in world (outside of his family) that owns the jersey.

Well, as we were standing in the lobby waiting for the one guy to finish up, this group of smoking hot women come in. My one buddy sees them pointing excitedly over towards us and they walk over asking to take a picture. All the guys are excited and say hell yeah. Then they all point towards me and say "Just him". I'm shocked and I find out that it is Jon Dorenbos' wife and her friends.

How freaking cool is that? What were the odds that she would walk in and see me?

Totally made the night for all of us and I've got a picture to keep. By the way, Dorenbos' wife is extremely hot. Google Julie Dorenbos to take a look for yourselves.

scuba-you should've said "sure you can take a picture if i can bang you silly upstairs." haha

just googled her - she is hot. wow. should've tagged her. haha

Scuba once again reality is better than any fiction. Youy can not make stuff like that up. GREAT story!!!!

Not a bad day of fishing.  We got absolutely nothing from about 8:30 to 12 and I was about ready to leave.  I gave a little no effort cast, barely 30 feet into the water and put it in the rod holder.  After a minute or two, BAM!...the good ol' "I'm a 10 inch kingfish hitting like a semi-truck."  So I got a kingfish and then for two hours we caught spot after spot.  My friend also pulled up a small dogfish.  It was fun though.  A little bit annoying that the spot would hit whatever you threw out before the kingfish could get to it, but they were still fun to catch.

As we were leaving, some girl next to me who could barely cast pulled in a keeper weakfish.  That made tarkus jealous haha.  I should have been going after weakies instead of settling for spot.  Argh.

Fun times though.  Other than my friend and I, the weakfish, and another dude who caught one spot, no one else caught anything, so my friend and I looked like we were fishing masters haha.

Here comes a stringray
There goes a manta ray
In walked a jelly fish
There goes a dogfish
Chased by a catfish
In flew a sea robin
Watch out for that piranha
There goes a narwhal
Here comes a bikini whale

Very fine lyrics.

i have no idea what song that is, but i immediately put the lyrics to Subterranean Homesick Blues

That is the B-52s "Rock Lobster".

Sounds awesome tark. A few friends and myself are going up to Lake Wallenpaupack over Labor Day weekend, hoping to get some good stuff.

Not a bad day of fishing.  We got absolutely nothing from about 8:30 to 12 and I was about ready to leave.  I gave a little no effort cast, barely 30 feet into the water and put it in the rod holder.  After a minute or two, BAM!...the good ol' "I'm a 10 inch kingfish hitting like a semi-truck."  So I got a kingfish and then for two hours we caught spot after spot.  My friend also pulled up a small dogfish.  It was fun though.  A little bit annoying that the spot would hit whatever you threw out before the kingfish could get to it, but they were still fun to catch.

As we were leaving, some girl next to me who could barely cast pulled in a keeper weakfish.  That made tarkus jealous haha.  I should have been going after weakies instead of settling for spot.  Argh.

Fun times though.  Other than my friend and I, the weakfish, and another dude who caught one spot, no one else caught anything, so my friend and I looked like we were fishing masters haha.

Nice, I would have cut the kid's fishing line though, when her whoever was responsible for her wasn't looking. 

Not so good for me.   The fishing reports were bad, and while I was determined to prove them wrong, I couldn't.   Completely skunked, Lake Michigan is still like bath water.    I was hoping it would have cooled down by now but it was still to warm.    Saw a salmon in 8 feet of water when it was that hot yesterday, very odd but did nothing except taunt us. 

This is for you fishermen out there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml9KYH7tfk4

Heywood Banks rocks.