Not Fishing Related

[radm]

Minnesota boy needs help re: whether a real estate transaction requires a real estate agent or lawyer to be involved by state law. I know states differ on this. Am dealing with a family issue. Thanks for any replies.

[radm]

Come on guys. Is there anyone from Illinois that actually trolls this board????? I've gotten more action on my bucktails this year...

[Bob Horn]

I don't think you need an agent but I would always have a lawyer to dot the I's and cross the T's. Can never be to safe these days.

[Kab Dreamin]

I live in MN and hold a MN real estate license, but was born in Illinois. I just sold the family farm by LaSalle this past year. You do not need to have, by law, a real estate agent or a lawyer involved in a real estate transaction in Illinois (or MN for that matter). But a lawyer is a pretty good idea.

[vermilionfox]

Just cruisin' the board, saw this thread. I was born in LaSalle, small world!

[genegodawa]

I spent a month in LaSalle one weekend.

[radm]

Thanks for the info guys - AND the heads up to steer clear of LaSalle (wherever that is).

[Bob Horn]

LaSalle has some great river fishing and the power plant lake is my favorite place to fish in Illinois. The Kank is a close second.

[Kab Dreamin]

I grew up in Tonica, south of LaSalle about 10 miles and can remember the Illinois River back when all it was was bullheads and carp because of all the pollution. Back in the 60's there would be a wall of foam floating down the river below the Starved Rock dam. Then they started cleaning it up up near Chicago and things improved dramatically. I caught my first Illinois River walleye just upstream of Spring Valley in 1977 and it just got better every year. In the late 70's and early 80's, before I moved to MN, we used to fish below the Starved Rock dam and it was nothing to catch and release 30 or 40 fish per angler in the spring. Now I understand they have jumping carp. Keep them in Illinois.

[Kab Dreamin]

Did you grow up there or move out when you were a kid?

[vermilionfox]

I was born in LaSalle, and left when I was 21 or there abouts. I remember the Illinois being very dirty, but do remember it rebounding. Caught my first Sauger below the Rt. 51 bridge in Peru, first walleye at Starved Rock downstream from the sea wall dragging a jig and minnow from shore. Spring white bass runs at the dam were fantastic! It was a great place to grow up. I know a few people from Tonica, mostly musicians. Did the Boy Scout summer camp at Camp Kishauwau on the Vermilion River. Went to high school at St. Bede, graduated in 1979.

[Kab Dreamin]

No kidding. St. Bede class of 80 here. I was the other tall guy on the basketball team along with Bob Gorman when you were a senior if that helps you identify me. On senior skip day when I was a senior, a bunch of us were parked on shore below the dam on the north side of the river spanking the white bass. We must have caught 100 of them that morning. Later we drove down to the first set of rapids on the Vermillion and caught a bunch more. My mom lives in Oglesby now and I keep planning on coming down and fishing the walleye tournament but never get the chance. Too late now. I just bought a resort in Grand Rapids, MN and now my fishing time will be severly curtailed, I think.

[Bob Horn]

It's more saugers then walleyes.90% saugers. They call it walleye capital but it's the sauger capital. I see 3-3 1/2 lb. sauger a common site.

[vermilionfox]

Does your last name start with a B??

Drop me an e-mail, and tell me about the resort. Maybe we can stop by when we're up in early June next year!

My e-mail address is in my signature.

[Kab Dreamin]

You are right. Usually they were saugers, and some of them were pigs. We were so used to catching little saugers on the Canadian border that we couldn't believe that the Illinois river ones were saugers because they were usually so big. The only place we were ever able to find walleyes was on the sand humps between the Peru boat club and the Spring Valley bridge. And not many of them.