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Walleye time comes on area rivers

River walleye time is here, which Capt. A.J. Cwiok and John Carlson showed from a Michigan river and the Fox River, respectively. They share Fish of the Week honors.

Cwiok caught a his personal-best walleye of 32 1/4 inches and 12.7 pounds last week.

“Been searching for a fish of this caliber all season,” he messaged. “I’ve broken my personal best three times this season. I’m starting to get the hand of this walleye things since I really started fishing for them five years ago.”

He added, “[It] came off one of the Raddletail plastics. I am pro staff for Fish Bum Tackle. I’m gonna be putting a beating on the fish in Chicago on these new baits when I come home for charters this year!”

John Carlson holds the big walleye he caught from the Fox River on Saturday.

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Carlson was fishing the Fox in in the wind Saturday and caught a 26.5-inch walleye with a 15.5-inch girth, weighing 7.9 pounds.

He messaged that was the “only bite of the three-hour trip [and caught and released in] 3 feet of water.”

FOTW, the celebration of big fish and their stories (the stories matter) around Chicago fishing, runs Wednesdays in the paper Sun-Times.

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