Ben Gorashchenko looked down at the long, twisting, wriggling creature he just reeled in on the Chicago River and was not sure what he had hooked.
Turns out, he was pulling in an American
DNR’s separate samplings of lake trout in the Illinois waters of Lake Michigan last spring and fall yielded very different numbers – but the same response from fisheries biologist who study the fishery.
Things
The single-shot rifle appears to be a thing of the past for Illinois deer hunters.
Assuming Gov. JB Pritzker signs Senate Bill 2756 into law, deer hunters will soon be able to use rifles
Largemouth bass spawning season at the hatchery begins with a turn of a wheel.
In nature, spawning season begins as soon as the water is warm enough to let the bass know that it’s
Speaking from his home in Algoma, roughly 30 miles east of Green Bay, Lee Haasch knows his days are numbered before he begins working seven days a week, starting each day at 3:30 a.m.
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows turkey hunters checked 45,475 birds during Missouri’s 2026 regular spring turkey season, which ran April 20 through May 10.
Top harvest counties for the
A southern Illinois man with a history of outdoor accomplishments came just a few ounces shy of breaking the Illinois state crappie record.
Not that the numbers mattered – he was actually fishing in
Chicago’s piping plovers have some competition for attention. For the first time in more than 100 years, a bald eagle has been born inside the city’s limits, the Chicago Park District egg-statically announced Wednesday.
Springfield — The Illinois Muskie Tournament Trail kicked off its 2026 season on April 25 with the Spring Classic Tournament on Wheel Lake at Banner Marsh.
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