Chain: White and yellow bass hitting Mepps spinners, pinkie jigs or live bait. Pike being caught around creek mouths. Muskie and walleye bite is fair. Catfish are fair on night crawlers. Bluegills and crappies good,
Crab Orchard Lake: A few anglers are still reporting catching crappies, although fish are running small. Most crappies are being located in water 10-15 feet deep. Minnows and jigs are equally effective. A few catfish
Springfield – Jay O’Hara helped his 8-year-old son fill out a FOID card application this past spring, just as he’d done for his older son only a few years earlier. “He’d seen his older brother’s
Illinois River: Near Ottawa, catfish are good. Best on shrimp, chicken liver and shad. Near Peoria, channel catfish good along channel edges. White bass are good on Little Georges. Near Starved Rock, white bass are
Springfield – Waterfowlers will not be hunting canvasbacks this year as federal wildlife officials take action to halt the duck’s seemingly sliding populations. The news comes as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces it
Associated Press Chicago – The U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture division that kills problem wildlife says it will do the math to report how many wolves, robins, and other species it kills each year on a
Washington – Illinois’ upland game received good news July 29 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture backed away from allowing landowners to trash Conservation Reserve Program contracts without penalty. Ducks Unlimited and Pheasants Forever had
Powerton: Smallmouths good in the cool part of the lake, in the back and off of points. Most were caught on crankbaits, some 18 inches and bigger. Channel catfish are excellent in the rocks, hitting
Springfield – If all goes as planned, many of the state’s Canada goose hunters will enjoy higher bag limits during the two-week September season. In recent years, hunters were allowed to take only two geese
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