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Light festivals have become an essential activity for the winter holidays and there's a huge one with a Christmas market near Toronto. Holiday Nigh...

Provided by Ryan Merkel ILLINOIS’ LAKEFRONT CHINOOK Hi Dale, Pete Merkel, my cousin, caught a new boat record for us today out of Winthrop Harbor. (Two photos of the fish are attached below)This king was 28 lbs and 42” long. Hit on a green/white flasher with an Aqua Howie’s fly behind a rigger. We were in 125 feet of water and the rigger was set 110 feet down. Fish took a massive initial run pulling 500+ feet of line off the reel. Great day on the water, we also got a 23 lbs king a just few minutes prior. Not a lot of bites but the two we got were awesome.

Big largemouth bass being caught from local lakes and ponds, big smallmouth bass being caught from area rivers and the Chicago lakefront, and a big walleye caught from Heidecke Lake are among the reports in the sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.