ILLINOIS PERMITS/SEASONS

Monday: Deadline, second lottery, free site-specific dove permits, illinois.gov/ dnr/hunting/dove/Pages/OnlinePermitApplication.aspx. Aug. 1: Squirrel-hunting season opens. Aug. 1: Applications begin for free upland game permits.

DALE’S MAILBAG

“Most of my summer days began with a bike ride to the bait shop on Belmont at Clark to pick up a carton of crabs and then back to Belmont Harbor to enjoy my day with my bamboo pole. Though I do not remember catching any jumbos as big as

[Danny ‘Taks’ Borgert] does, I guarantee I enjoyed my success every time out. Then, too soon, it was back to Nettlehorst and fishing took a back seat to school.” — David Gates, Mount Prospect Wonderful memory. I didn’t find it easy to refocus on school after a summer outdoors as a kid.

BIG NUMBER

9 pounds, 15 ounces: Michigan-record quillback carpsucker caught April 28 from the Muskegon River by Owen Seay.

THE LAST WORD

“I also think it needed to be said that her clientele needs the lakefront to fish for food. Boaters, walkers, joggers, birdwatchers, bikers and runners are all nonessential.” — A veteran lakefront angler (asking anonymity), on Stacey Greene-Fenlon and Park Bait at Montrose Harbor