Sugar River Summer Update
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Frank Kapel
Jim Allen of the L.W.S.R.I.A. grabs a Styrofoam bait container followed by a Mountain Dew bottle in his net on the Little Sugar River near Ruben's Cave at the 2015 Sugar River Cleanup. Fallen branches like this are only cut if they impede the safety of canoe and kayak navigation. This branch was left to provide fish habitat.
After another brutal Winter and a Spring with monsoon rains and below normal temperatures that extended through most of June, we welcome the warm Summer weather with the hopes that it will not be cut short by another early Autumn. Regardless of the weather, folks love to get out on the Sugar River and its small man-made lakes like Lake Winnetka. Many times back in May and June we observed folks out fishing in downpours or chilly temperatures. Kayakers, canoeists, and tubers have been observed paddling down the river in torrential rains and unseasonably cool temperatures. They say that y...
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