There’s finally a bit of buzz in the state’s trapping community – just as the Illinois Trappers Association prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary next month. Final approval of a river otter trapping season was
With Chinook salmon stockings in Lake Michigan on course to be halved next year, it appears Illinois is on track to take the smallest reduction among the four states bordering the big lake.
Chain The walleye action is picking up. Fishermen have been reporting good catches in the river channels and mouths of the creeks in the early morning or late evening. Jig and minnows or jig and
Crab Orchard Lake Crappie action has improved recently. Most fish are being located in 8-10 feet of water over submerged cover, rip rap or bridge pillars. Minnows and jigs are equally effective. Catfish action is
Teal hunters have enjoyed plenty of shooting in their brief season – especially in southern Illinois, where both green-wings and blue-wings have been plentiful.
Spring Lake Catfish are biting on bluegills and shad. Bass being caught on spinnerbaits. Crappies biting on minnows and jigs at the south end bays. Lake Bloomington Catfish biting good on dipbaits, doughs and crawlers.
A group of bowhunters scouting places to set up shop near Lake of Egypt this archery season were in for a surprise when they found carcasses of a half-dozen deer grouped in a small creek.
Illinois River The sauger bite is slow with fish being caught near the tailwaters of dams or on the flats vertical jigging jigs with minnows or pulling “three-way rigs.” The white bass are starting to
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