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February 20, 2025

Gretchen Steele: Illinois legislation that hunters, anglers should know about

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One thing we can always count on this time of year is a flurry of introduced bills in Springfield that affect outdoor enthusiasts in Illinois. This year is no exception.
We’ll look at the standard bunch of firearm-related bills in my next column, but otherwise there are bills for a little bit of everything. I’ve pulled the ones that I think folks would be most interested in.

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Looking for a winter blues buster? Upgrade your fly fishing gear

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Christmas money still jingling in your pocket? Anglers who buy a fly line, rod, and reel designed for the task of bass fishing will find more success next summer.
We’re stuck right now in the midst of a long, cold, dreary winter. That makes this an excellent time to buy a new fly reel and a bass-taper fly line to place on it. What better way to fight the wintertime blues, eh?

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Minnesota’s Pope County pheasant group keeps conservation local for over 40 years

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Gary Weber has trained six hunting dogs since 1982, the year he helped form Pope County Pheasant Restoration, a conservation/hunting nonprofit organization that predates the arrival of Pheasants Forever.
He said he remembers all of them – five Chesapeake Bay retrievers and his current Labrador – fondly.
“Time flies, doesn’t it?” said Weber, the organization’s current chairman. “We had a lot of fun together.”

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Steve Piatt: Good to be back on hard water in New York

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When my wife, Paula, and I left the Adirondacks in the late summer of 2013, it was a painful move in more ways that one.
Loading up our rented U-haul for a trio of Labor Day weekend trips back to the Pennsylvania-New York border made for an exhausting and backbreaking effort. But even before that, there was pain beyond leaving so many friends and the home and life we built in the North Country.
I sold my ice fishing equipment.

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