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‘Learn to Hunt’ program hitting its mark in Illinois

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Lifelong hunters in Illinois may not recognize or understand it, but attracting new hunters in the state is a formidable task. Try this analogy: it’s sort of like hunting for quail in a cloud of field sparrows.

According to a recently-released report on the LTH effort, 4,685 potential new hunters attended in-person events between 2017 and 2022. Counting workshops, webinars, online seminars, individual mentored hunts, group events, podcasts and a host of social media interaction, the program revealed that it had more than 1.3 million contacts during the 5-year period. 

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Early turkey season began wet, snowy for Illinois youth hunters

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Snow, sleet and frigid conditions greeted hunters at the top of the state on both days of the first weekend. Heavy rains and threats of flooding affected hunting in southern parts of the state. The second weekend was a bit better, but missed opportunities in the first weekend is expected to lead to a lower statewide harvest.
Youth hunters typically set the stage for the regular season. Last year’s four-day harvest of 1,264 was a disappointment after the 2021 harvest of 1,321 and the record-setting 2020 harvest of 1,733.

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Testing for CWD without thinning the deer herd? A ‘better way’ indeed

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They’re hunting for new tools to detect CWD in deer without relying on deer culling.
Lindsay Thomas, Jr. of the National Deer Association recently addressed three separate research projects. One, at the University of Pennsylvania, involves training dogs to detect CWD prions through sniffing. Another effort at the University of Minnesota is looking at detection of prions on the surfaces of materials at deer feeders.
More promising and pragmatic is work at Mississippi State University’s Deer Lab focused on detecting CWD prions in whitetail scrapes.

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Illinois angler now shares Minnesota pike record after this winter

Featured, Fishing, Illinois, National Fishing /

Brecken Kobylecky’s solo spot atop the Gopher State’s record books lasted about 18 months.
He now shares the Minnesota State Record northern pike. The Geneva resident landed a 46 1⁄2-inch northern pike June 19, 2021, while fishing Basswood Lake in Minnesota, giving him the record. But about six weeks ago, on Jan. 22, Brad Lila pulled a 46 1⁄2-incher through the ice on Lake Mille Lacs.

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With opener on the horizon, Illinois trout anglers have options due to DNR stocking

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When the 2023 Illinois spring catchable trout season opens April 1 at 58 sites, more than 80,000 DNR-stocked rainbows will be up for grabs.
Again this spring, a special catch-and-release portion of the trout season opened two weeks earlier, this year on March 18. During this period, which was implemented with a focus on fly fishermen, no trout may be kept.

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