Chicago fishing: Weighing big ones

Click here for my Sunday column about growing difficulties with weighing big fish on certified scales; and trying to come up with ways to weigh big muskies then release them.

This discussion was started late last month when Eric Lichamer had trouble getting his 72-pound grass carp weighed.

That’s when I found out that there were thoughts of having a scale somewhere on the Chain O’Lakes so muskies could be weighed and released.