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

From the antics and honor of making the annual Jay The Joke Holiday Cookbook to goose pastrami for the holidays, I think of food from the...

When I find it is a week or more between Rambles, I know I am too busy. Tis the season for that. Between hunting--goose, duck, deer--and...

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: Kan Harrelson? Hawk out of kee-eeeee-arr. Joe Maddon? Fox at the rabbit hole. Willie Young? Fish out of water. Specials...

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

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: 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...

The steady spread of lake whitefish in southern Lake Michigan is of major interest to Solomon David, an aquatic ecologist at the Shedd...

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

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

STRAY CAST: Kris Bryant is like that kid who makes his dad take him along on dad’s get-away fishing trip. (This site and our outdoors...