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Article: Tracking Lake Michigan bass via radio waves
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- Courier-News (Elgin, IL)
- Article date:
- December 23, 2000
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Outdoors head: Tracking Lake Michigan smallmouth bass via radio waves bline: By Mike Norris body: In the late 1980s, Bob Hicks chased salmon and trout on Lake Michigan.
These days, he's chasing smallmouth bass.
Hicks, a 49-year-old Crestwood resident and retired fishing charter boat captain, has fished Lake Michigan all his life.
Back in his chartering days, hardbaits, dodgers and flies were the tools with which he frequently found fish.
Nowadays, with the help of Loyola University biology professor Dr. Jan Savitz, he finds Lake Michigan smallmouth bass with a radio receiver.
Dr. Savitz surgically implanted radio transmitters of varying frequencies in eight captured Lake Michigan ...