I’ll be at the sold-out Wild Things conference in Rosemont Saturday, so I will miss everything else weekend, including the reopening of Braidwood Lake to fishing on Saturday. Click here for my promising preview for fishing the cooling lake in southwestern Will County.
There are other things to do to, including the Illinois Boat Show, the Bronzeback Blowout and the Fish & Hook Sports Show.
- The Illinois Boat Show—”The Largest Boat Show & Sale in Northern Illinois”—runs through Sunday, March 2, at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake.
- The Fish & Hook Sports Show is 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, March 1, at the VFW Post 5788 in Lockport.
- The Illinois Smallmouth Alliance’s Bronzeback Blowout is 3- 8 p.m. Saturday, March 1, at the American Legion in Elmhurst. It will include an “Incredible raffle and silent auction prizes including guided trips, rods & reels, fly outfit, huge assortments of lures & flies, and much more.” Guide and educator Collin Lamkin will present on targeting smallmouth through the seasons. Rich McElligott, who will be formally inducted into the Illinois Outdoor Hall of Fame in mid-March will do the conservation presentation.
