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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
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
Devils’ Kitchen: Bass improving on spinnerbaits. Crappies slow but improving. Bluegills biting in shallows on worms and crickets. Crab Orchard Lake: Anglers are taking some crappies in shallow weedy areas, but others are being caught
Springfield – As expected, DNR will be implementing a number of changes in deer regulations for the 2009-10 hunting season. The changes were made as a result of input from landowners, hunters, deer management professionals
Washington – The latest version of legislation that would increase the price of the federal duck stamp, enabling stamp funding to keep pace with current land prices, hit a load of buckshot earlier this month
Chain: According to fishing reporter Cory Yarmuth (www.chitownangler.com), the fishing has really slowed down for the walleyes with the warmer weather and water. Bouncing jig and minnow combinations around the pilings has been putting some
Springfield – As the ongoing budget battle threatened parks and services across Illinois, some sportsmen took solace in a proposed law that would have prevented the pension bump fiasco involving short-time DNR Director Kurt Granberg.
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