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A mix of outdoors stories, including a new study of prion diseases that suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease from cervids to people.
HAMMOND — Blas Lara was fishing Lake Michigan in Lake County during the Mayor’s Fishing Derby in Hammond on April 21 when he landed a 3-pound, 2-ounce yellow perch, shattering
Anthony Burke was fishing for perch in Lake Michigan on Jan. 6 when he landed a burbot that was 37.25 inches long and weighed 14 pounds, 3.6 ounces.
Anthony Burke caught a 14-pound, 3.6-ounce burbot to shatter the previous record by nearly three pounds.
Burbot are in the cod family and have firm, white flesh, according to the Department of Natural Resources.