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Chicago Fishing School Class instructor and club founder John Wilkins plays a large fish in Prospect Heights, IL

Learn Fishing Chicago!

Fishing lessons around Chicago this Spring & Summer for 2009! Our club is a great place to learn to fish Chicago waters and the Chicago suburban waters. Chicago Fishing School offers fishing lessons to all levels of anglers as well as guided fishing sessions and club fishing events all over the Chicago area. Remember last year how you didn't catch fish near home? We promise to put you on a lot of fish as well as big fish right near your home within 20 minutes of Chicago in parks, forest preserves and park district ponds.
Chicago Fishing School
remember those hours out trying to catch a bass and end ending up only with a few small fish. How about 100 fish and a couple of 4 lb. fish the next time you go out? Fishing events featuring instruction, demonstrations and timed fishing derbies will help you learn methods not shown on TV and not in books. An average day fishing for our club members fishing on public waters of Chicago's suburbs, will probably be better than your entire month fishing. Join our fishing club or find out where to take our fishing seminars and catch more or larger fish guaranteed! Click Here

MAC Fishing Club is back, Featuring Chicago Fishing School Classes

Chicago's exclusive fishing school (MAC or Chicago Fishing School) will take you through a season of learning with a 3- season rotation of events built to add the skills you need to have big success fishing around Chicago. The skills you learn will improve your catch much like this video:


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Chicago Fishing School - Chicago, IL

The MAC (Midwest Angler Chicago -Fishing Club) offers the chance for new anglers, Jr. Anglers and adults in the Chicago area to register, learn how to fish, meet new friends and improve your catch- right near home! The MAC Fishing Club is the event-arm of the Chicago Fishing School Our philosophy is - to the power of 8. Every angler we meet and who joins the club will improve your catch times 8. While some of our anglers improve their catch 100 times over, you will:
1. Catch more fish
2. Save money with simple gear, baits
2. Cherish local waters & ecosystems
3. Drive less, fish more
4. Build angling in Chicago area
5. Appreciate all fish
6. Pass what you learned on
7. Support USA Angling team & tradition
8. Have a lot of fun catching fish

The MAC is a Chicago Fishing Club dedicated to American Angling and teaching U.S. Anglers living in the Chicago's suburbs. With educational events around Chicago, the MAC's dedicated members will show you the best of the local fishing scene.

ARE YOU?

  • New to fishing?
  • Wishing to teach your children or family how to catch fish?
  • Wanting to catch more or larger fish near your house?
  • Frustrated in your fishing success?
  • Desiring to defeat your buddy on your local pond?
  • A seasoned angler looking for a fun, semi-competitive fishing league?

The MAC will open new doors to you! If you are a seasoned angler, but don't fish Chicago, but are thinking about it - we can put you on a lot of fish & big fish nearly all the time. Learn to fish the baits that work the best so you actually catch fish and experience the Chicago fishing scene at its best. Catching fish using our methods will make you deadly at landing big game fish in Minnesota, Wisconsin & Canada - or anywhere you might go.

The techniques I learned in Chicago from a fishing teacher and master US Angler, helped me to personal bests landing huge walleye, blue fin tuna, carp, northern pike, king salmon, channel catfish and rainbow trout that I might have lost. With local Chicago fishing practice, help me hook up with more fish and help me to land many more fish. My teacher, Mick Thill added skills to my game the first time out in which I hooked and landed 5 straight 4 - 6 lb. fish in the period of an hour without losing a single fish.

Joining is simple
You may visit one of our free events or mini-seminars and then decide to join after. You might just want to purchase our seminar series or a one-on-one session, many packages are available.

Our events are very simple, the cost is below $60 annually with many discounts for family, friends, seniors, military, teachers & public servants (police, fire, elected officials as well as 2nd year members!).

What is required?
1. Attend one or two fishing events a year
2. Be environmentally sound, protect local waters
3. Pledge to US fishing ethics
4. Either volunteer for 1 kid's fishing event- or help organize
5. Fish, Learn & Have Fun
6. Keep membership dues current
7. Pass on what you learn to one new member each year


Contact me for more information here

John Wilkins- angling instructor
630-235-2162

Chicago Fishing School's MAC Fishing Club
Learn to use lures, jigs and how to use live bait to catch fish in the Chicago Area. DuPage County, Cook County for family, kids and local fishing for bluegill, carp, catfish, walleye, bass, crappie fishing in Northern Illinois. Our fishing events include fishing outings, fishing seminars in Chicago area for beginning anglers, intermediate & advanced.
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First Free Fishing Seminar:
Visit our Chicago Fishing School Schedule
Downers Grove


VISIT OUR SCHEDULE PAGE HERE!
Fishing classes this Spring will include:
Basic Casting, Rod, Reel Components & Basics of fishing local ponds (still waters).
The angler will learn the best methods to cast, rig up and fish baits. Included in this class will be
- live bait rigs
- fishing on a $3 budget
- getting fish to bite
- playing & landing fish
- defeating wind
- fishing plastics for local ponds
- fishing crankbaits
- small jigs, big success

Limited to first 12 reservations.
Sites: Downers Grove & Prospect Heights, IL-rain or shine.
(Other fishing seminars will be added as well as group lessons.)
Individual sessions available.

If you are new to the area, the MAC is Chicagoland's Fishing Club for anglers wishing to learn how to fish Chicago waters & suburban ponds. The methods of fishing that we use are many but most consistent catches come through finesse bait tactics using fine bite indicators. Fishing in Chicago is fantastic if you use proper bank angling gear (even from the boat).

Anglers interested in fishing our outing in the Chicago area can contact us and find further information about the club here: Learn More Here


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2009 Club for Learning Fishing Chicago area Fishing Classes, fishing events and derbies.
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2009 Illinois Trout Opener-
Spring catchable trout season opened the first week of April. The Chicago area trout fishing season allows urban anglers to legally take (harvest) rainbow and/or brown trout from Cook & DuPage waters which receive catchable trout or hatchery stockings of rainbow trout. Anglers must have a fishing license and inland trout stamp, unless they are under 16 years of age, blind or disabled, or Illinois residents on leave from the Armed Forces. A daily limit of five trout per angler is enforced. Remember that on these ponds, the rule is this species can't survive summer pond temperatures and lower oxygen level, their purpose is for catching & eating and they are a temporary stocked fish.

2009 Illinois Fishing Regulations Book
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Places we fish -
Arlington Heights
Bloomingdale
Chicago
Downers Grove
Naperville
Prospect Heights
Wheaton

Fishing Tackle Review
2009 Mitchell Fishing Reel on deck

US Match & Fishing News
AMFA no longer sanctioned by MAC due to tampering with US Angling, actions against US Angling team, Clubs & US Team- MAC recommends avoiding any AMFA events.

 

Article: 2006 Cook County Trout Opener Late Again- trout anglers fishless!
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Site Updates:Updated April 12, 2009



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Free fishing information, fishing show schedule, coupons, tips on bluegill, carp, channel catfish, bass, crappie, walleye and man more species of fish. Featured information about Chicago Fishing clubs, urban fishing tactics and fishing activities.

Midwest Angler is based in the Chicago area and is a fishing club that offers information on Chicago's park districts, forest preserve parks, public fishing lakes and great kids fishing information. Learn about places like Lake Arlington, Busse Woods, Plum Grove. This site is an excellent site to find Chicago Fishing information from top anglers.

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Midwest Angler is also home of the Midwest's only fishing magazine for beginners & intermediate urban anglers. An educational fishing magazine dedicated to the newer angler, intermediate angler and match fishing bank angler. The Club Newsletter is available to all who wish to pick up key tips on urban bank angling and catching more fish in Chicago's waters, rivers, creeks, lakes and reservoirs. Subscribe Here

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