Homewood native and international fishing star Mark Zona headlines Stray Casts No. 11. That's him in the photo below and right. We have...

STRAY CAST: Telling the Boat Show from the Cubs Convention is like deciding longear sunfish or bluegill. BTW, click here for a good...

STRAY CAST: If politics were hunting, Donald Trump would be a poacher. If football was fishing, the Bears would be cut shad. (This site...

​STRAY CAST: John Fox is to time management what filamentous algae is to pond management; BTW, ``Go! Cubs! Go!'' is as ubiquitous and...

STRAY CAST: Jay Cutler is the same to Chicagoans as snagging salmon. (This site and our outdoors media company are named for the Stray...

STRAY CAST: Derrick Rose talks at news conferences like a propeller-scarred muskie swims Fox Lake. (This site and our outdoors media...

STRAY CAST: In the beanball battle with the Cardinals, Joe Maddon showed he swims with all the other old baseball sticklebacks. (This...

STRAY CAST: The Bears season emerges like a mudpuppy pulled up at Navy Pier. (This site and our outdoors media company are named for the...

STRAY CAST: Finding Meryl Streep in a movie role I enjoyed watching (Ricki and the Flash) is like finding a goldfish I enjoyed watching...

STRAY CAST: The Cubs season reminds me of an old float down the Vermilion River; the dam at the cement plant ahead. (OK, paddlers will...

STRAY CAST: Finding out Chet Coppock contributed to a book with the late Doug Buffone is like finding a free-raning Maine Coon house cat...

STRAY CAST: The White Sox are like the last twitching shad after largemouth bass corralled a school. You know what is coming. (This site...

STRAY CAST: Gov. Bruce Rauner is like the guy who thinks pulling yourself up by the bootstraps means upgrading Silver Sonic Waders; and...

STRAY CAST: The fake arty trees fit 31st Street Harbor about as well as gobies do the Great Lakes; and are nearly insulting as the...

STRAY CAST: Baseball season is like night fishing for flatheads: you're never quite sure if the line twitch is current of a flathead...

STRAY CAST: With a royal blue Lund Tyee with red and white trim powering north to Belmont Harbor, it is time to call the mouthy guy who...

STRAY CAST: Getting a noogie from Nolan Ryan is one thing, that s like a 30-pound muskie throwing a Pounder Bull Dawg at the boat; but...

STRAY CAST: Jeff Samardzija’s retaliations remind me of finding out an admired dry-fly fisherman tips his Royal Coachmans with maggots....

STRAY CAST: The Examiner hiring Jay Mariotti at the management level is like the Shedd Aquarium planting a northern snakehead in a Great...

STRAY CAST: James Shields looks like a poster child for a week-long hunting trip. (That's a compliment.). (This site and our outdoors...