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As summer approaches, restaurants and bars along the lower Fox River are preparing for a return to -- they hope -- 2019 normalcy with new menu items, live music lineups, and added seating and bar space.

The Wisconsin opener on Saturday, with some ice questions, leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

Even with the extra variable weather, a mix of spring fishing—coho, steelhead, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, crappie, trout—lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

Ice fishing builds to nearly universal coverage around the Chicago area and leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; the ice is limiting open-water efforts by perch anglers on the Chicago lakefront.

Ice fishing, which arrived around the Chicago area and will lock up more waters later this week, leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; plus the perch and lake trout bite continues on the Chicago lakefront.

Fishing for perch on the South Side of Chicago, with some lake trout mixed in, leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; there’s ice to the north while we are waiting on it here.

Perch and lake trout on southern Lake Michigan lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; plus ice-fishing updates to the north.

Perch on Chicago’s South Side, a note from the inimitable Oscar Santos, lake trout on southern Lake Michigan, steelhead on some LM tributaries, and some walleye inland lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

Perch and near-shore lake trout in southern Lake Michigan and the slow creep of ice fishing toward Chicago lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

It’s that time of the year where it is waiting on ice up north and perch on southern Lake Michigan and those threads lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report going into the Thanksgiving break.