You'll have a Delavan time fishing this lake

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: August 25, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

DELAVAN LAKE, Wis. -- For Chicago fishermen, Route 50 across the Wisconsin line feels like home. To the east of Interstate 94 is Kenosha and all-night orgies for salmon and trout. To the west are the multispecies heavens of Geneva and Delavan lakes.

Once part of the fun of Route 50 was savoring the tidy dairy and truck farms. That's fading to a memory. The berry farm where I often stopped on returns to Chicago is being bulldozed into a subdivision.

One thing hasn't changed. Delavan gets my vote as the top multispecies lake near Chicago. The 2,072-acre lake was reopened to fishing in 1992 after ...

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