 
No, not the guy, the fish! A 29-pound Asian Carp. Caught in Illinois? Nope. Try Minnesota.
Minnesota hasn’t seen (fortunately) many of these beasts, this one was caught in a wide area of the Mississippi called Lake Pepin, near Lake City, about 40 miles from where I grew up. At Lake Pepin, the Mississippi is very similar to the way the Illinois widens north of the Peoria Narrows. Except Pepin gets about six miles wide at it’s widest spot, with all the marshes.
(Trivia: the sport of water skiing was invented on Lake Pepin in 1922.)
Also, as you read the story, notice the photo below the main pic and to the right, with the cutline referencing Peoria, IL.
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