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September 5, 2025

Ryan Rothstein: Three mast crops to focus on for early-season whitetails

If you’re still working on a plan for opening day of the whitetail bow season or, if you’re like me, constantly looking for new spots, then the last-minute scouting agenda is simple: Focus on food.
But I’m not talking about ag fields. On private land, beans and alfalfa can be outrageous in the early season. If you’re hunting public land, however, odds are you won’t have the option of sitting over a manicured beanfield. What’s more, even on private ground with ag fields, sitting over the top of them isn’t my first choice for early-season hunts.

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Gretchen Steele: Big year for Kaskaskia River Delta Waterfowl Chapter in Illinois

There’s a certain kind of magic that happens along Illinois’ Kaskaskia River before dawn.
You know it if you’ve ever been there – when the mist rises off the water, the air holds its breath, and a handful of hunters lean forward just a little, waiting for the first flock to swing in. That feeling – that mix of anticipation, tradition, and camaraderie – isn’t something you can explain easily to folks who’ve never shouldered a shotgun in the half-light.

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