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Fish of the Week: Sign of big Chinook

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
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Chinook are running so big on Lake Michigan this summer that Bob McKay (center) needed two guys to show off the 29-pounder he caught last week.

He was fishing with Capt. Mike Smith on CO-CHI 1 out of North Point Marina. Smith (left with baseball cap) is one of the longest-tenured captains on southern Lake Michigan.

Could it be a fall when we see some 30-pounders again, like the glory days?

Send nominations for FOTW, the weekly celebration of big fish around Chicago fishing on the Sun-Times outdoors page, to straycasts@sbcglobal.net.


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