Dan Libman learns it takes modern technology to enjoy an ancient sport.
Ice fishing is a revered winter sport in the Midwest – as soon as the ice is thick enough, tiny huts start popping up on lakes across the region. But the sight of ice shanties is less common in Illinois than it is in some neighboring states, where ice may freeze thicker and lakes are more plentiful.
Rule #1 of ice fishing: Don’t reveal the site of your favorite fishing spot. Under penalty of being laughed at, don’t even ask.
Dan confesses the extent of his ice fishing knowledge begins and ends with
Fargen named IRAP Landowner of the Year
Canton Daily Ledger
SPRINGFIELD The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) announced Fulton County conservation advocate Ron Fargen has been selected as the Illinois Recreational Access Program (IRAP) Landowner of the Year for 2020.
Nominated for his dedication to conservation, Fargen began allowing IRAP participants to hunt for turkey, deer and squirrel on his property in Fulton County in 2013. In exchange for hunter access, IRAP pays Fargen an annual lease payment, provides liability insurance, and has written a habitat management plan specific to his property. IRAP also provides technical assistance and cost-share to help him implement the management plan and effectively manage his property through prescribed burning, tree planting, brush management and related conservation efforts.
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How many people are eager to sit down to an entrée of slimehead? Or Patagonian toothfish? Or mud crabs? Or oilfish? Or, dare we even bring this up, a sushi delicacy of whore’s eggs?
Not many of us, we would guess. All those seafood entrees sound, to put it mildly, unappetizing. Please pass the peanut butter.
We’d much rather munch on more elegant fare. Give us orange roughy, Chilean sea bass, peekytoe crab, blue cod or Maine sea urchins. Perhaps with a whimsical sea shanty playing softly in the background.
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Except, of course, that the more appealing-sounding entrees are just cleverly rebranded versions of seafood with the names we mentioned up top. It’s a marketing idea that works. With its new description, the one-time throwaway mud crab, er, peekytoe crab, became a culinary celebrity. Similarly, the Patagonian toothfish gained palate popularity when it was reintroduced in 1977 as Chilean sea bass, even though it is not technically a b