Zona, Echterling, Shimano, Chicago River: Stray Casts 11
Homewood native and international fishing star Mark Zona headlines Stray Casts No. 11. That's him in the photo below and right. We have...
top of page
Search
Dale Bowman
- Jan 13, 2016
- 1 min
Boat Show & Cubs Convention: Stray Cast
STRAY CAST: Telling the Boat Show from the Cubs Convention is like deciding longear sunfish or bluegill. BTW, click here for a good...
2 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Dec 9, 2015
- 1 min
Trump, Bears: Stray Cast
STRAY CAST: If politics were hunting, Donald Trump would be a poacher. If football was fishing, the Bears would be cut shad. (This site...
1 view0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Oct 21, 2015
- 1 min
Fox, filamentous algae & Cubs song: Stray Cast
STRAY CAST: John Fox is to time management what filamentous algae is to pond management; BTW, ``Go! Cubs! Go!'' is as ubiquitous and...
3 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Oct 14, 2015
- 1 min
Cutler & snagging salmon: Stray Cast
STRAY CAST: Jay Cutler is the same to Chicagoans as snagging salmon. (This site and our outdoors media company are named for the Stray...
1 view0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Sep 30, 2015
- 1 min
Derrick Rose & muskie: Stray Cast
STRAY CAST: Derrick Rose talks at news conferences like a propeller-scarred muskie swims Fox Lake. (This site and our outdoors media...
0 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Sep 23, 2015
- 1 min
Maddon & stickleback: Stray Cast
STRAY CAST: In the beanball battle with the Cardinals, Joe Maddon showed he swims with all the other old baseball sticklebacks. (This...
4 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Sep 18, 2015
- 1 min
Chicago Bears & mudpuppy: Stray Cast
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...
30 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Sep 11, 2015
- 1 min
Meryl Streep, goldfish: Stray Cast
STRAY CAST: Finding Meryl Streep in a movie role I enjoyed watching (Ricki and the Flash) is like finding a goldfish I enjoyed watching...
1 view0 comments
By Dale Bowman
- Sep 4, 2015
- 1 min
Cubs, Vermilion River float & dam: Stray Cast
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...
3 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Sep 3, 2015
- 1 min
Buffone, Coppock, Maine Coon cat, gray fox: Stray Cast
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...
2 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Jul 2, 2015
- 1 min
Sox, bass & shad: Stray Cast
STRAY CAST: The White Sox are like the last twitching shad after largemouth bass corralled a school. You know what is coming. (This site...
0 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Jun 25, 2015
- 1 min
Rauner & Potter: Stray Cast
STRAY CAST: Gov. Bruce Rauner is like the guy who thinks pulling yourself up by the bootstraps means upgrading Silver Sonic Waders; and...
3 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Jun 18, 2015
- 1 min
Fake arty trees, Picasso & Chicago: Stray Cast
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...
2 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- May 13, 2015
- 1 min
Baseball & night fishing flatheads: Stray Cast
STRAY CAST: Baseball season is like night fishing for flatheads: you're never quite sure if the line twitch is current of a flathead...
3 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- May 6, 2015
- 1 min
Time to change boat drivers (or something): Stray Cast
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...
1 view0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Apr 22, 2015
- 1 min
Pounders, noogies & managing: Stray Cast
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...
5 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Apr 8, 2015
- 1 min
Stray Cast: Jeff Samardzija, Royal Coachman & maggots
STRAY CAST: Jeff Samardzija’s retaliations remind me of finding out an admired dry-fly fisherman tips his Royal Coachmans with maggots....
1 view0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Apr 1, 2015
- 1 min
Stray Cast: Jay Mariotti & northern snakehead
STRAY CAST: The Examiner hiring Jay Mariotti at the management level is like the Shedd Aquarium planting a northern snakehead in a Great...
2 views0 comments
Dale Bowman
- Mar 25, 2015
- 1 min
Stray Cast: James Shields & a beard
STRAY CAST: James Shields looks like a poster child for a week-long hunting trip. (That's a compliment.). (This site and our outdoors...
2 views0 comments
bottom of page