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Ice Fishing

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Add the Punchline to Our Fishy Mitt and Newt Cartoon

If you've got wit, add your punchline to Patch's weekly comic and win a personalized print.

Are you blessed with insight and good humor? Or just bored today? Share your wit with your north suburban neighbors by entering Patch's comic caption challenge. Just add your dialogue for today's comic in the comment section of this post. Our only requirement is that you keep it clean! At week's end, we'll pick the winning punchline based on how many of us here at Patch giggle and smile at your contribution. The user who produces the winning punchline will get a personalized proof of the comic, with the winning words and a credit line, from cartoonist Chuck Ingwersen and Patch.

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9:02 am on Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Out of touch, out of mind and a Penguin, Let's change bait and try this again!   more ›

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Have You Noticed Something Moving on the Lake?

Those specks aren't ants, they're ice fishermen.

As long as the weather is cold, the ice fishermen come out everyday. They pick a spot, drill a hole into the ice to fish from and set up a hut to keep warm.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Winter Sports Hotline Provides Current Conditions

Lake County Forest Preserves offer sledding, snow mobiling, cross country skiing, ice skating, ice fishing, winter hikes.

The Lake County Forest Preserves' winter sports hotline provides current winter sports conditions 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at 847-968-3235. A recorded message conveys current trail and ice conditions for sledding, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, ice fishing or ice skating at Lake County Forest Preserve locations. Condition reports, maps and other winter sports information are also available on the Lake County Forest Preserves' website at www.LCFPD.org. Sledding Sled hills are located at Lakewood Forest Preserve (Wauconda) and Old School Forest Preserve (Libertyville). The Lakewood hill is part of a dedicated Winter Sports Area at that site, and is lighted, allowing for winter fun until 9 p.m., daily. The Old School hill is …

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