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Banner Marsh: Bass are fair on plastics, spinnerbaits or chatterbaits and fair at East Point Access. Bluegills are slow to fair and small on wax worms. Crappies are fair on minnows or jigs with many
Banner Marsh: Bass are fair on plastics, spinnerbaits or chatterbaits and fair at East Point Access. Bluegills are slow to fair and small on wax worms. Crappies are fair on minnows or jigs with many
Chain: For walleyes, troll stickbaits at night across the tops of the shallow weed flats to find active feeding fish. Try spinner rigs and bottom bouncers with night crawlers near the weedlines. The panfish bite
Springfield – The number of ducks on the continent’s main breeding grounds increased 13 percent from last year and is 25 percent above the long-term average, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Habitat
Devils’ Kitchen: Bass improving on spinnerbaits. Crappie fishing is slow but improving. Bluegills biting in shallows on worms and crickets. Crab Orchard Lake: Catfish are the best bet. Anglers are taking good numbers of cats
Chicago – A proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency has boating organizations up in arms. The National Marine Manufacturers Association and the Boat Owners Association of the United States have taken serious exception with a
Sterling, Ill. – Two weeks after it celebrated a successful “KingKat” catfishing tournament, the Rock River dealt with a mysterious fish kill that state biologists are still trying to solve. DNR estimates that more than

Belleville, Ill. – The first big bowfishing tournament on the lower Kaskaskia River was such a hit, more events of its ilk may be on the way. Ten boats containing two or three anglers each
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