A former Illinois DNR director who is now a lawmaker said out loud what deer hunters have been thinking since Senate Bill 2756 began creating confusion and frustration.
In a committee meeting, State Rep. Wayne Rosenthal suggested the bill be amended to “eliminate any reference to handguns.”
A bill that passed the Michigan House would increase individual fish possession limits – but anglers in the state shouldn’t see it as a need to buy bigger live wells or stringers.
The limit would apply to fish that have been canned, cured, smoked, dried or frozen.
Michigan bill bumps preserved fish limits Read More »
Not many years ago I found myself sitting at a table with fisheries biologists, hatchery managers and a handful of “specialists” and “technicians” – vague job titles that state and national wildlife agencies give folks who get the dirtiest.
Or, in the case of fisheries staff, the “wettest” and, probably, the “smelliest.” Discussion was about the cost of hatching and raising fish that would eventually be placed in lakes and rivers.
Ralph Loos: Incidents, accidents part of managing fish Read More »
A fish kill in 2024 dampened expectations that Ramsey Lake would soon become a “top tier” fishing lake in Illinois.
Dampened them, maybe – but it didn’t defeat them. Bass and catfish remain strong in the cozy 54-acre Fayette County lake.
Panfish hit by kill, but Ramsey’s catfish and bass thrive in Fayette County, Ill. Read More »
There are short stretches of down time in a fishing boat that set people like me up for long stretches of random thoughts typically shared with our annoyed fishing partners.
Such as, “What could possibly be more exciting than an overtime playoff hockey game?” That’s a random thought I cast toward a partner during a recent stretch of fishing boat down time.
Amid threats to push Illinois out of the project, federal funding has been released to build part of a barrier system to keep invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan from the Illinois River.
Management of the project was moved from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District in Illinois to the Detroit office in Michigan, but how that will impact the embattled project is still unclear.
Illinois River invasive carp battle bit by politics, but vital funding released Read More »
Three new counties have confirmed cases of CWD in deer, pushing the Illinois DNR to upend its unpopular sharpshooting program and once again refocus its approach to managing the expanding disease.
Effingham, Scott, and Stark join 25 other counties in the state with at least one confirmed case. More alarming, Effingham and Scott counties follow Adams County as having the first documented cases outside of the CWD “hot zone” – formally known as the northern Illinois CWD endemic region.
Sharpshooting program suspended by Illinois DNR after three counties added to CWD list Read More »
As with everything else we dig into our pockets to pay for, the idea of reaching in and pulling out a bigger wad of dollars to hunt and fish – without any sort of obvious added benefit involved – tends to make a lot of arms sore.
Even those belonging to folks who acknowledge fee hikes are overdue in Michigan.
Ralph Loos: Sore arms and all, Michigan hunters, anglers throw out funding ideas Read More »
Channel cats, redear sunfish, and rainbow trout have been the focus of DNR stockings at Beaver Dam Lake the past five years – evidence of what anglers are looking for when they visit the cozy Macoupin County spot to camp, explore or, well, fish.
Redear sunfish, channel cat stockings boost Beaver Dam Lake in Macoupin County, Ill. Read More »
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