Girls catching good fish, earning Fish of the Week: Maybe there is a trend building in fishing

Good to see more young girls coming up with fishing love and success. Here’s two examples from earlier this month.

Howard Rynberk emailed, “Carly Rynberk catching her first muskie, a 29-incher, a tiger muskie at a local pond.”

Michael Jotzat sent a photo of his daughter Michayla’s solid smallmouth bass from the Fox River.

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It feels like a trend is growing in fishing with more girls and young women becoming involved.

I know at the IHSA’s state finals last week, two of the teams were all girls and a smattering of women were coaches and/or boat drivers.

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. The online posting here at https://chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors goes up at varied days of the week, depending on what is going on the wide world of the outdoors.

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