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April 17, 2025

Wisconsin’s fishing opener not set by a calendar; ‘It’s a time of the heart’

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Wisconsin /

As I write this, it’s the 30th of December. My next year’s calendar tells me Opening Day of the Wisconsin general fishing season is Saturday, May 3.
Do I look forward to it? Of course. That doesn’t mean I’ll actually fish on that day. Opening Day, for me, is a lot more personal than a square on the calendar. When I was younger and more foolish, I treated opening day almost the way a good Catholic boy treats a Holy Day of Obligation. That mostly brought me misery.

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Gretchen Steele: Redbud blossoms are spring’s tangy little treat

Featured, Home Page News, Illinois, Nature Page & Night Sky /

You know spring has finally arrived in Illinois when you see all the redbud trees burst into color all of a sudden – in addition to all those birds singing their hearts out and all those muddy puddles, that is.
It’s one thing to have bare tree branches and then another – bam! – bright pink flowers everywhere, even on the trunk!

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Illinois trapping season ends, fur marketing begins

Featured, Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting, National News, News /

Now that the beaver season is over, trappers are fully into marketing mode and have a range of options.
As for how Illinois trappers did during the 2024-25 season, it’s a bit early to determine. A quick look into one species, the river otter, reveals that a preliminary count from the DNR as March ended showed about 1,050 otter harvested throughout the state. The final count will go up some, but not much.

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