{"id":46708,"date":"2016-06-09T12:38:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpms.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/pike-and-muskie-on-chicago-lakefront-perspectives\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T12:38:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:38:36","slug":"pike-and-muskie-on-chicago-lakefront-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/pike-and-muskie-on-chicago-lakefront-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Pike and muskie on Chicago lakefront: Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/sports\/pike-and-muskie-on-chicago-lakefront-perspectives\/'>Pike and muskie on Chicago lakefront: Perspectives<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>\u201cToothy predators\u2019\u2019 on the Chicago lakefront doubled down for me last week.\u00a0Northern pike and muskies.\u00a0First Marcus Benesch, who sends fishing reports for the Des Plaines River, had an aside about guys fishing smallmouth bass on the lakefront, \u201cA buddy of mine hooked into a uppers 30s [inches] musky at Burnham Harbor, with no way of landing it, it bit off at the wall.\u201cA lot of guys started chit chatting and it turns out there has been a pair of muskies that have been spotted a few times in the shallows at Burnham. What\u2019s going on? Some secret stocking or just rogue urban muskies?\u2019\u2019Fair questions. (Plus I like the phrase, \u201crogue urban muskies.\u2019\u2019) On Friday, noted smallmouth fisherman, jig-maker and skateboarder Ryan Whitacre, texted, \u201cJust counted [seven] decent-sized pike at [a lakefront harbor].<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pike and muskie on Chicago lakefront: Perspectives \u201cToothy predators\u2019\u2019 on the Chicago lakefront doubled down for me last week.\u00a0Northern pike and muskies.\u00a0First Marcus Benesch, who sends fishing reports for the Des Plaines River, had an aside about guys fishing smallmouth bass on the lakefront, \u201cA buddy of mine hooked into a uppers 30s [inches] musky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}