Have a Beer and Eat a Minnow Too-- Part 1

This past week we were happy to see an old bar reopen on the Chain of Lakes, the Aquarium. It is on Nippersink Lake in the Village of Fox Lake.

It is one of only four remaining bars on Nippersink which at one time had at least ten. The others are the American Legion, Blueberry Hill (the old Old Style Inn) and El Puerto Mexican Restaurant.

The Aquarium is an old bar and one that is well-known, but had fallen on hard times the last several years. It had been closed for a year and a half, but reopened last season, but was closed because of health issues regarding the people living upstairs.

We had been noticing this season that there was a sign announcing it would reopen with new owners, but nothing came of it and we were beginning to think it wasn't. The piers were still in horrific shape as well. The outside was painted as well.

I had seen an announcement in the local Advertiser that it reopened last weekend. Wednesday, we were out boating and went over to Castaways on Pistakee Lake and after passing under Beer Can Bridge, I remembered it and we cruised over to the Aquarium, making a careful check of the piers which had been repaired well enough to attempt to dock.

I was wondering if they kept the old tradition where you had the opportunity to swallow or munch a minnow or two.

I Wonder? --RoadDog