Big Apple Angler went on the road last weekend and ended up in a very scenic corner of Northwestern Illinois, near the historic town of Galena. Galena is an old mining town that saw its first boom in the early 19th century. Today it is a popular resort area. Near by is the Eagle Ridge Resort with a beautiful 225 -acre man made body of water called Lake Galena.
At one end of the lake is a spill-out, and after some heavy rains last week we found a nice pool of water in the stream below the Lake Galena dam. A helpful local bait store suggested night crawlers as the bait-of-choice.
And once again we pulled in this beautiful small mouth bass on the first cast of the day. We heard that pound for pound the small mouth bass fish is the scrappiest fish in Illinois, and this happy angler would agree with that statement!
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