Pipher, a grandfather who lives in Smithton, a small town that sits on the edge of suburban Belleville, just 25 miles east of St. Louis, was fishing Jan. 25 at Sellers Lake, an 840-acre body of water in central Florida’s Marion and Lake counties.
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That’s something to keep in mind as the 2024 season arrives April 8 in the south zone and April 15 in the north zone.
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To borrow and wreck lyrics from the late musician Gordon Lightfoot, “The legend lives on from Peoria on down, of the big trout they called near impossible . . .“
In wake of DNR’s announcement that the spring trout season will open April 6 at 58 ponds and lakes around Illinois, it’s a good time to answer a common question: what happens to trout stocked by DNR that are not caught by anglers?
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Just a few years ago, high school anglers up and down Illinois dreaded competing against the phenom from the Marion-Carbondale area. Trey McKinney had began winning bass fishing championships at the age of 13 – and it didn’t look like he was ever going to stop.
He still hasn’t. Earlier this month, the now 19-year-old reached a career pinnacle by becoming the youngest angler to win a Bassmaster Elite event.
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Hunters topped the 200 mark for the first time and teamed with trappers to register the largest bobcat harvest since DNR opened the season in 2016.
In all, 389 bobcats were taken during the 2023-24 season, which ended Feb. 15. That was six more bobcats than the previous high, which was set last season. The breakdown this season puts the hunter harvest at 214 bobcats, up from the 198 taken in 2022-23.
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What do we Illinois deer hunters choose to shoot, why do we choose to shoot it – and is there a chance that most of us just wing it and make such decisions on the fly?
If you threw 72 hunters in the back of a stock trailer and asked these questions, my guess is you’d get a handful of answers. But mostly you’d get a stock trailer full of shrugs.
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Bass anglers who frequent Du Quoin City Lake will have to navigate new regulations this spring.
Following a sampling of the lake this past fall, DNR announced, “Given that largemouth bass abundance is relatively low, but size structure and growth are favorable, regulations will be changing to a reduced creel limit of 3 fish per day and a 15-inch minimum length limit, effective April 1, 2024.”
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“The recommended fiscal year 2025 budget includes increased funding to fully support department activities and rebuilds staff ing infrastructure at state parks and historic sites, and continued operation of the Illinois State Museum,” the proposal states.
An Ogle County bowhunter who allegedly harvested six deer from a nature preserve in Lee County, Ill., could be facing heavy fines and up to 10 years in prison.
In all, Brandon Scott Miller, 30, of Oregon, Ill., faces more than 20 counts of illegal hunting activity in Ogle and Lee counties from September 2023 to December 2023.
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