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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Dale Bowman

The quest to catch a steelhead every month on the Chicago lakefront

Danny “Taks” Borgert with his personal best steelhead from the Chicago lakefront, caught in October. (Provided)

“Without a doubt I am infatuated with the beauty of a steelhead,” Danny “Taks” Borgert messaged on Instagram. “The colors of a colored-up buck or a fresh chromer with a turquoise back is amazing to me. The way they fight is heart pumping exciting. To see them jump 6 feet out of the air and take drag peeling runs. ... There is nothing like it.

“They constantly motivate me to come up with new jig patterns and be creative in that process. I make pretty jig for pretty fish. Well, even my ugly jigs work sometimes. ... LOL.”

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