Angling for brown trout
Fishermen can find plenty of action along the Lake Michigan shore
By PAUL A. SMITH
Special to the Journal Sentinel
The Lake Michigan shore in Milwaukee is cloaked in a dingy, gray light, the type that keeps secrets well. At the moment that includes the location of my fishing partner, Eric Haataja of West Allis.
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With a U.S. Coast Guard boat in the background, Don Kirklewski of Milwaukee casts into the Milwaukee River in Milwaukee last week.
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Eric Haataja of West Allis holds an 8-pound brown trout caught along the Lake Michigan shore in Milwaukee last Tuesday.
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We're working the edge of a rusty sea wall along the lakefront, the water below us kept free of ice by current. The sky periodically delivers gifts of silver dollar-sized snowflakes and insults of freezing drizzle.
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