Wednesday Stray Cast: New Year’s late

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It only seems apt to run the Stray Cast here.

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Afterall, this Web log is named for Stray Cast, which has snapped off the end of the outdoors column in the Sun-Times on Wednesdays since April 2, 2003.

Here (a couple days behind because of holiday stuff) is Wednesday’s:

Vinny Del Negro has become to Stray Casts what largemouth bass are to fishermen at Emiquon Preserve.

That’s Emiquon in the photo above, much earlier in the year.

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