Dan Gapen News Today

Pick-up of the perch bite (with lake trout mixed in) on southern Lake Michigan and ice rebuilding on inland waters lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

Six whooping cranes in Kankakee County, a note from the late Dan Gapen, a "crazy person" (me) asking ice on the Chain and a sequence of the lunar eclipse are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors.