
“Coolest fish for me was a river redhorse that hit a crankbait early Saturday morning, leading to about a four-minute battle before it was landed,” Vince Oppedisano mentioned in a September report on the Fox River. “This was the biggest of three redhorse I’ve caught so far this year on the Fox River (in the Elgin, South Elgin and Batavia pools).”
I loved his respect of redhorse, but the rarity of river redhorse in the Fox made me check with Olaf Nelson, who identified it as a silver redhorse.