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Jeremiah Haas: Fantastic spring fishing on Illinois waters of the Mississippi is almost here

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

April is nearly here and unofficially spring is taking place on the river. While this year has seemingly been a year of early warm weather in Illinois, Mother Nature tends to know the calendar and stays on schedule. 
Each spring anglers are treated to a few weeks when the waters warm, yet flood waters have not reached the Quad Cities area. Typically flood waters tend to arrive around the second week of April.

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Jeremiah Haas: Catering to youth hunters can help them build confidence

Featured, Features, Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting /

Youth turkey season begins March 30 in Illinois – Easter weekend.
While this is likely to complicate things with church and travel plans, getting an eventful, encouraging hunt put together for your young one is always more work than hunting for yourself. However, the rewards of such hunts are significantly more meaningful than our own hunts, too.

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Jeremiah Haas: Shed hunting helps keep track of my old friend ‘Blade Runner’

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting /

Working and playing in the outdoors is a real blessing for those of us who are able to do it on a regular basis. And while fall successes in the field bring pictures, meat and a lot of joy, finding those spring jewels also can evoke similar emotions.

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Illinois joins Midwest Walleye Challenge where anglers can win prizes, help biologists better understand fisheries

Featured, Fishing, Illinois, National Fishing, News /

Each year, state natural resources and fish and wildlife agencies invest significant resources to support walleye fisheries. Locally, Iowa’s Fairport Fish Hatchery staff spend several weeks collecting broodstock (adult walleyes) on the Mississippi River for hatchery production.
The LaSalle Hatchery in Illinois does, as well, for sauger on the Illinois River. These activities dominate time resources and minimize population monitoring of waterbodies during these periods.

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Jeremiah Haas: Recent cold and snow in Illinois a reminder of nature’s resiliency

Featured, Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting, Opinion /

As I sit here, it is the last day of the Illinois bow season, my deer summer sausage and sticks supplies are already running low, and I’m looking out the window at the worst weather conditions we have seen in several years.
While I was hoping for a quick doe hunt this weekend, the smarter half of me knows the season is over.

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Jeremiah Haas: Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration programs integral to what we love as hunters, anglers

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, Illinois, National Fishing, National Hunting, Opinion /

Now that we have spent the sporting goods store gift cards we received at Christmas, you might be wondering where does all that money go? While the manufacturers and retailers get much of the price you pay, a percentage of it will be used to help the resources we will likely be pursuing with the new items we purchased.
These conservation programs have a long history, one dating back nearly a century.

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Jeremiah Haas: Fix your 2023 outdoor failures for 2024 successes

Featured, Features, Fishing, Hunting, Illinois, National Fishing, National Hunting /

As we finish up the year and reflect on the successes and failures of the past 12 months, now is the best time to make those 2024 goals and start the process of eliminating what you failed at in 2023. It is OK to admit you had failures.
Guess what? We all have them, so list them to start the process of moving forward. Coaching junior-high-school-age children, I often tell them that we learn more from our failures than our successes, so outdoorsmen and women need to do the same.

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Jeremiah Haas: Success in the deer woods is about showing up

Featured, Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting, Opinion /

Most of us do not get to spend all day and night engaged in the outdoors. Time availability in the field changes during your life as you gain responsibilities and obligations. When I was in college, I was in a treestand 45 to 60 days each fall.
Now it seems like I can count those treestand days on two hands. While the obligations are more important, the draw to the woods is constant and nagging.

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Illinois hunter takes unusual piebald deer in Rock Island County

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting, National News, News /

Paul Sereda, of Coal Valley, Ill., has been hunting this property for around 10 years and had never harvested a buck like this. He hunts a small parcel in Rock Island County where most of the deer are transient, but it does get a fair amount of traffic.
His trail cameras kept him in the loop that deer were using the area, including this particular deer. The funny part, however, is that even though he had pictures of the buck, all were at night and consequently were black and white photos.

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