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May 24, 2025

Here are the best ways to dodge danger in snake country

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Four of us were heading to the spot where prairie dogs had built a hefty community and the landowner needed them thinned. Halfway there, we heard the telltale sound of a rattlesnake, and – with no one needing to utter a word or a sound – we all froze.
When the group’s movement stopped, so did the rattle, and I asked if anyone knew where the snake was lying. No one was sure, but no one was about to move to find out.

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Illinois high school bass fishing finals set for Lake Shelbyville debut

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An all-time high of 329 teams entered the Illinois High School Association’s state bass fishing series this year – a year of big change for the ground-breaking activity launched in 2009.
A new format structure was introduced this year, adding a regional round feeding into a sectional round. Dates of the state finals tournament were pushed back, too. And there is a logistical change: for the first time ever, the finals will not be at Carlyle Lake.

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Bob Gwizdz: The secret to catching big trout? Just keep fishing

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I’ve been trying to come up with an approach to trout fishing the past few years that maximizes the opportunity to catch big fish.
I’ve considered about every variable that plays into the equation – where and when you fish, type of gear, weather patterns, etc., etc. – and just about every time I isolate a factor that I think might make a difference, something occurs that’s the opposite of what I anticipated.

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Wisconsin Wildlife Federation honors George Meyer for his advocacy of threatened greater prairie chickens

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George Meyer might be retired, but he’s not tired. Well, at least not too tired after 50 years of working conservation causes to challenge what conservation groups see as inadequacies in a proposed 9,000-acre solar farm to be placed right next to the Buena Vista State Wildlife Area in the towns of Plover and Grant in Portage County.
Meyer has guided the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation (WWF) and Dane County Conservation League (DCCL) through almost two years worth of legal hurdles on this project involving Vista Sands Solar, LLC, and its application to the state’s Public Service Commission.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Getting bullish over bullheads

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Nature is loaded with not-quite eureka moments, little items of common things that most of us let simply pass by our view as uninteresting.
That is, of course, until a hint of sorts sets us on a voyage of discovery that reveals just how surprising common can be if we give it half a chance. While many anglers are driven by their interest in Ohio’s glorious and better-known plethora of noble species, I normally spend a portion of April, much of May, and a smidgeon of June chasing lesser fare.

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