Outdoors Sports

Kid & big, really big, muskie: Fish of the Week

By Dale Bowman

Erica Peterson of Genoa boated a 45-inch muskie Sunday while fishing with her dad Eric at Shabbona Lake.

The photo line says it all, “Yes, I did catch it.”

And yes, that is a big muskie.

FOTW, the celebration of big fish and good stories around Chicago fishing, appears Wednesdays on the Sun-Times outdoors page.

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