Bass in Chicago’s harbors maintain trend in latest assessment
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Smallmouth bass swimming in Lake Michigan’s harbors received another boost of notoriety last April when angler Kyle Danhausen pulled one out of Monroe Harbor weighing 7 pounds, 2 ounces – a mere ounce short of the Illinois state record.
The standing record is a smallmouth caught in Monroe Harbor in 2019. While those two smallies were not caught in harbors sampled annually by DNR, the fish did represent a trend fisheries biologists and anglers have noted over the past decade or so.
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