Fishing report

Fields full of flowers and butterflies and fishing so great that I had to pull my line out of the water just to eat a bite of lunch; that's how my fishing day went at the Kankakee River.

My first cast yielded a 13 1/2 inch large mouth. A large mouth slightly smaller appeared on my second cast and so went the morning until about 12:30 when the fish suddenly and abruptly quit biting.

So I hiked up the path and found a shady spot where I could dip my toes in the water and keep cool while I casted my line among some small pan fish. After a while a group of small mouth bass moved in. The biggest was around 12 inches. And so this is how I wiled away the afternoon in heaven.

This is how fishing is this week down the river from the site where they plan to build the trash to ethanol plant; the plant that they plan to build right there in the flood plain of the river.

How long will heaven be here? Where will future fisherpersons cast lines to catch large mouth and small mouth bass all afternoon?    

Garbage to fuel or fool?

Why is Lake County building a trash to ethanol plant in the Kankakee River flood plain even against the advice of the builder?

Has Lake County filled up to such a point that there is not one vacant existing industrial lot that can accommodate the trash to ethanol facility?

Must the facility be built in one of the few areas where deer, coyotes, and wild turkeys still roam; one of the last few areas that has really great fishing and the fish are relatively safe to eat?

There are three major rivers in Lake County. The Kankakee is the last unpolluted river. Trash to ethanol is an unproven technology that has not been done on a large scale. Some existing ethanol facilities are notorious polluters.

Is the plant in the proposed area worth the risk?

You don't know what you've lost.....

Today a few pictures of the area around the LaSalle Fish and Wildlife Area on the Kankakee River:

Some deer:

A Quail

A fawn

Some Sandhill Cranes

 

The Water full of fish and beautiful in any season

Hope you enjoyed this pictures. The area may soon be so badly affected that these pictures may be gone....more Monday.