Sey Jay came close to his 2020 goal, catching a 19.5-pound lake trout on New Year’s Eve.
“It was my goal this season to bag a 20-pound laker, but I came up slightly short,” the Skokie man emailed.
On New Year’s Eve, he bottom fished with goby fillets on slip-rigs on the outside of Diversey Harbor for burbot and lakers. He caught two lakers, first a spawned-out 13.3-pound fish with a big head; the second weighed was 19.5 pounds and 37 inches long.
I like that he came close to accomplishing a goal such as that in 2020.
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