An old favorite of the Chicago River, the common carp, still have “Big Shoulders” downtown
Jesse Gonzalez holds his personal-best carp on the banks of the Chicago River downtown.
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Jeffrey Williams messaged on Tuesday that his brother, Jesse Gonzalez, had upped his personal best carp with a 28-pound common carp caught on corn from the Chicago River downtown.
Carp aren’t the sexiest or most-hyped species in the Chicago River system, but, as far as I know, they are still the biggest.
Plus that photo brings back memories of the Chicago Carp Classic, which drew an international field of anglers when it was a major event in the 1990s.
FOTW, the celebration of big fish and their stories (the stories matter, as this one shows) around Chicago fishing, runs Wednesdays in the paper Sun-Times. The online posting here atchicago.suntimes.com/outdoorsgoes up at varied days of the week, depending on what is going on the wide world of the outdoors.
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