Bass can be widely distributed through the vegetation, but cooling water often triggers more active feeding.
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More than any other collection of like-minded individuals, hunters tend to get stuck in their ways — and I say that as a hunter who tends to get stuck in his ways.
There’s comfort in tradition, doing things the way they’ve always been done. The same shotgun is pulled from the gun cabinet first each year, and the same roads are taken to the woods. The same trail to the deer stand is walked. We even have favorite places to sit – and favorite places to mull bad judgments we’ve made.
Ralph Loos: Michigan’s reliable hunting traditions got an update (upgrade?) this season Read More »
We all live in the past because it’s one of the few things we’re truly confident in – good or bad, sweet or sour, we can give the past a solid thumbs up or thumbs down with little doubt or hesitation.
But the future? It’s just a wild guess. I say all that to say this: There was a time when the DNR’s director’s office seemed like a place where conservation experience mattered. And I say that to follow up with this: Gov. JB Pritzker’s recent appointment of Jim Montgomery to lead the agency is only the latest chapter in a long-running pattern that should make hunters, anglers, trappers and other conservationists at least a little skeptical.
Ralph Loos: Another Illinois DNR director, another test for state’s natural resources Read More »
In the mid-1970s, a pair of southern Illinois men with an interest in duck hunting and conservation shared a common thought: would it be possible to start our own Ducks Unlimited chapter?
Much discussion and bits of exploration later, with a handful of others working alongside, the thought exploded.
“We lit the fuse, but we didn’t really know where it would lead,” is how Dave Wente explains it.
There are some lakes you visit because you want to catch fish, and there are others where you go because you never quite know what might be tugging on the other end of the line.
Cedar Lake in southern Illinois falls into that second category.
Crappies, catfish in focus at Cedar Lake in Jackson County, Ill. Read More »
Trey McKinney has spent much of his young fishing career proving that an angler from southern Illinois can compete with – and beat – the best bass fishermen in the country.
After finishing second in the Bassmaster Angler of the Year standings in each of his first two Elite seasons, he finally claimed the title this year – making history doing it.
Illinois native Trey McKinney makes Bassmaster history Read More »
It took 32 years, an electrician’s sharp eye and a painstaking Boone and Crockett Club verification process to reveal what Illinois hunter Sam Aiuppa had been keeping in his basement. The largest typical whitetail ever taken in the United States.
The B&C Club officially certified Aiuppa’s 1991 LaSalle County buck at 207-7⁄8 inches, putting the long-forgotten Illinois deer ahead of the legendary Jordan buck by 1-6⁄8 inches and into second place worldwide among typical whitetails, behind only Milo Hanson’s 213-5⁄8-inch world record from Saskatchewan.
For anglers in southwest Michigan looking for late-summer fishing opportunities, Cass County’s Diamond Lake offers plenty of options.
From stocked walleyes and northern pike to bass, bluegills, crappies, and yellow perch, the 1,020-acre lake near Cassopolis remains one of the region’s most diverse warm-water fishing destinations.
Diamond Lake: late-summer options for curious anglers in southwest Michigan Read More »
Bird hunters may or may not agree with me on this – depending on whether they hunt with a dog or don’t – but I submit to you that the “flush” is the most exciting and rewarding part of a day in the field.
I dream about it. To me, the “point” or the “set” come in a very close second. Shooting and downing a bird? ’Tis merely a nice bonus.
Ralph Loos: Michigan DNR’s ‘flush report’ offers bird hunters something to dream about Read More »
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