Lake Michigan: According to Cory Yarmuth, of www.chitownangler.com, the northern harbors are seeing a decline in the number of fish caught, but there are still browns and steelhead out there. Spawn sacks under a float are working well as well as the standard tinsel or white tube jig tipped with wax worms. The steelhead bite […]
Springfield – Illinois hunters harvested a record 97,021 light geese during last winter’s conservation order season. That’s a far cry from the mere 2,254 taken only a decade earlier, and more than double the 44,514 taken in the winter of 2007. Such success – along with a need for control of the light goose population
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Jan. 23, 2009: Lake Koshkonong WTU Banquet, 5:30 p.m., Holiday Inn Express. For more info call David Powell, 608-756-3453. Jan. 27, 2009:_Lower Wisconsin River WTU Banquet, 5:30 p.m., Dorf Haus. For more info call Gene Hausner, 608-588-7780. Jan. 31, 2009:_St. Croix Valley WTU Banquet, 5 p.m., Ready Randys/R&D Banquets. For more info call Steve Lucksinger,
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Springfield – Coming off the second-best harvest on record, spring turkey hunters look at the 2009 season dates with a mix of grins and grimaces. Five one-week seasons are “just fine” to some, while others were hoping to see an extra week tagged on in mid-May. The spring seasons kick off April 6 in the
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Springfield – Deer hunters who utilized recently-closed state parks were given options – including the offer of refunds – according to a DNR spokesman. Two of the parks, Lowden State Park and Castle Rock State Park, were open to hunters who purchased site-specific deer permits. When Gov. Rod Blagojevich ordered the parks closed effective Nov.
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Lake Sara (Effingham): The crappie bite has been hot. The bait of choice is small jigs tipped with wax worms or spikes under floats. Skipping under the deeper docks or finding the submerged timber and green weeds. Evergreen Lake: Crappies are found in 6 and 18 feet of water and running between 6 and 11
In Marinette County, ice was forming on the main waterways, with most sloughs and tributaries basically ice-covered as of last week. A few lakes in the northern half of the county were ice-covered enough for adventurous anglers. Success rates for fishing have been low at this time. Anglers still have been somewhat active below the
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