Badder than the BassMasters... (cont. from front)
Have you gone fishing this summer, maybe for the first time in a while? New to fishing? Maybe a relative took you and taught you, but you never seem to catch fish. Live in the Chicagoland area and interested in local fishing seminars that are enexpensive? If there is one yes out of that group, you may want to attend one of the Chicago Anglers Club outtings. We meet twice a month and offer an “on shore” seminar regarding the water we are about to fish targeting mutliple species. The main goal of this club is teaching people how to fish and getting more people out fishing and enjoying our local outdoors.

There are no excuses for not catching fish around here. You don’t need fancy, special equipment and you don’t have to be an expert. After the seminars, we feature a friendly “competition”. While this is sport, it is not life and death. Our club founders and local fishing gurus will be available to help you before and even during the competition.

If you are hard-core or have seen fishing competitions and want to compete- bring it on. There are many levels of angler from brand new anglers who catch one or two fish to anglers who have competed locally and at World Championship level that fish our club. After every competition, the best part is the weigh-in. All fish caught are weighed and then released on the spot so EVERYONE gets a great show and gets to see the fish that are in our local lake.

What’s that? You think there aren’t that many fish in our lakes? Secret is out, there are 1,000s of fish in every lake around Chicago- you just have to fish with what they want to eat! Recent weights from our club events include bags of 26 lb. of fish, 14 lb. of blue gills and local club fishing results have even seen weights of 75 lb. of fish as well as 512 blue gills caught in 4 hours & 44 lb. bags of bluegills! This is 4 hours of fishing the way it was meant to be. Fish flying through the air, soaking wet clothes and a fishing “shoot-out” like no other fishing in the US.

On TV competitions, you might see them swing in one or two fish on heavy line, we consistently CRUSH their weights and catches. What you see on TV is the result of 2 days pre-fishing and then 24 hours of fishing over 3 days.The winning weight of this year’s Bassmaster Classic was 37 lb. 14 oz. Our club fishes 4 hours on little local lakes and ponds and in just 4 hours we have had weights exceed 25 lb. If you do the math, we would be weighing in 150 lb. over 3 days from waters like the Fox River or a little park pond in Downers grove- FROM SHORE! One of our newest anglers was on a pace to break 66 lb. over the three day time period!

TV fishing shows are even worse. Midwest Outdoors is the best of them, but the others feature fishing from far-away places. Fishing shows should show you fish that you can catch around your homes, not some exotic bass that lives in Mexico! You will learn more at this club than you could from watching 10 years of fishing shows (with no commercials even!).

Stop the nagging feeling of going fishing and seeing no fish caught! Get out to our club events and improve your catch.

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A club for Learning & Fishing...
The Chicago Anglers’ Club features local fishing competition with club members from the near West Suburbs and surrounding area. Our purpose is to make use of local outdoors venues and to continue the improvement of the Forest Preserves, local parks and waters within the region.

People shouldn’t have to travel out of state to fish and families should learn to fish our local waters and have success.

Our club serves also to teach local anglers’ techniques for fishing local waters and to have success. Regular fishing seminars and workshops will be the feature of our fishing club featuring members of the U.S. fishing team and local experts, teaching, speaking and educating others in the art of techniques, strategies and methods used in finesse bank angling.

All fish count in our club which makes The Chicago Anglers’ club a little different than the run of the mill single species club. By catching fish within a time period, placing them in submerged keep nets and weighing all the fish after the competition, the day’s success will depend sometimes on most fish and other days on biggest fish caught or a combination of the two. This exciting, educational competitive angling brings something new to local club fishing. Some clubs compete, some clubs teach, but few clubs are formed to provide both teaching to beginners and competition to skilled anglers.

Our club welcomes all anglers from 12 years of age, male and female to fish our matches. A special rule will allow a parent to fish with their daughter or son during the competition as well. Providing a family fishing atmosphere within competition is good for everyone.

For more information on the club and to get an interview, contact John Wilkins at 630-235-2162 or email to press@chicagoangler.com.