
Has catch and release gone too far? There’s nothing wrong with catching and eating fish
Not long ago, a buddy of mine showed me a picture on his phone a buddy of his had sent. It was a massive brown trout – at least six pounds by my eye –

Not long ago, a buddy of mine showed me a picture on his phone a buddy of his had sent. It was a massive brown trout – at least six pounds by my eye –

To protect clean water in the wake of weakened protections triggered by the Supreme Court’s Sackett v EPA decision, the Izaak Walton League has endorsed H.R. 5983, the Clean Water Act of 2023, which was

This newspaper printed a story last week about the American Ornithological Society’s plan to rename 80 species of North American birds named after people. We’re talking feathered friends like the Wilson’s phalarope, the Cooper’s hawk,

It’s hard to escape the attention that the decision by the leadership of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) to change any bird name that was coined to honor a person to something more descriptive about

On the opening weekend of firearms deer season in Illinois, I made the rounds, checking in to hear all the great deer stories.
I stopped at processors to see how the numbers looked and

Buffalo Grove’s Orrin Brand has passed away at the age of 79. Illinois fishermen are more familiar with the other name that Brand used – Mike Jackson.
Jackson once told me that he elected

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Dec. 1, 2023, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.

In an example of Illinois getting in the way of Illinois, one of the state’s most effective and productive fishing organizations may disband in the coming year. This after it spent 40 years helping DNR’s

By the time you read this the trapping season will have been open almost three weeks in Illinois. The first week at least was pretty mild, so I’m sure many trappers took advantage of this.
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