
Nature Smart: Prairie chicken dancing
I just wrapped up a nine-day northern grouse tour. During this trip I put over 2,000 miles on my truck in an effort to photograph the four grouse species found in the Upper Midwest. These

I just wrapped up a nine-day northern grouse tour. During this trip I put over 2,000 miles on my truck in an effort to photograph the four grouse species found in the Upper Midwest. These

For those looking to introduce youngsters to the joys of angling, bluegill fishing offers the perfect gateway. This hardy and plentiful fish is ideal for beginners, providing plenty of excitement with minimal equipment and a

It’s an age-old question: Of fish and fishermen, who’s smarter? A recent magazine article stated that salmon have an IQ of 130.
Darn. That’s smarter than me. Maybe it’s because salmon are full

Memorial Day weekend has come and gone, and with it, the unofficial launch of summer. If you’re like many folks in southern Illinois, the long weekend was a chance to soak up sunshine, fire up

I’d like to dive a little deeper into the subject of topwater fishing. That’s quite an anomaly, isn’t it? Deeper? Topwater? Ha!
To be honest, I never was a believer in fishing lures on

We all know what to do. Identify legal game, aim, squeeze, tag, drag, skin, eat.
Yet we also know that things often fall apart after the “Identify legal game” part. We shake, we fumble,

Fifth season – or, the fifth and final week of the Illinois spring turkey season – can be a fun, but difficult time to hunt turkeys as most of the breeding is over, hens are

It’s no surprise to Illinois anglers that channel catfish are one of the state’s most popular species.
But take DNR’s word for it: Maintaining channel cat populations in some lakes can be challenging.

The fish in Wolf Lake that got the most attention this winter was not one of the northern pike, walleyes or largemouth bass ice anglers flock to the awkwardly-presented Cook County lake to (hopefully) catch.<br
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