
Bobcats lose race to otters
A river otter trapping season could be in place by the fall. And muskrat fans? Your extended trapping season may be popping its head out of the proverbial den in 2013.

A river otter trapping season could be in place by the fall. And muskrat fans? Your extended trapping season may be popping its head out of the proverbial den in 2013.

Good news: More people in the state have apparently become gun-friendly.

Fatal accidents served as proverbial wakeup calls to both the state’s angling and hunting communities in January.

There have been unverified sightings of wolves in northern Illinois over the years since the population was entirely wiped out in 1860, including a handful in 2011. But it’s unlikely the gray wolf will make

Springfield – Hunters and anglers in the state apparently grew weary of “Blago Babble” this past year. At the end of each of the past three years, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his follies could

Springfield – The Alabama Rig, the latest craze in the bass fishing world, must be modified to be used legally in most of Illinois’ waters, according to DNR assistant fisheries chief Dan Stephenson. The rig

Springfield – With late winter totals still to be tallied, it appears as though DNR’s prediction of a “status quo” deer season was right on target, so to speak. sta-tus quo n: 1. the existing

Usually cautious about declaring new state record fish, DNR surprisingly is planning to send out a press release today heralding a new Illinois record walleye that was caught over the weekend. “The Illinois Department of

There’s paperwork to complete, and DNR must still officially confirm it, but a 50-year state record appears to have been shattered this weekend on the Pecatonica River in Winnebago County. Rumors have been floating around
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