Illinois Letters to the Editor: Let’s expand muzzleloader hunt
Illinois Letters To The Editor
July 22, 2024
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 26, 2024, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
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Ralph Loos: Significant wild turkey research makes its way to states that include Illinois, Iowa
Ralph Loos
July 22, 2024
There are plenty of good reasons I became a journalist instead of a biologist, engineer or chemist – and I am reminded of those reasons each time I stumble across a phrase like, “spatiotemporal variation
Report: U.S. hunting license sales for 2022-23 reflect slight decline
Staff Report
July 22, 2024
The Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports in collaboration with Southwick Associates recently released its annual report on hunting license sales, revealing a relatively steady trend for the 2022-2023 license year.
According
Here’s how to build a steady dog for the duck blind
Steve Piatt
July 22, 2024
Chances are pretty good, if you’ve done a lot of upland bird or waterfowl hunting, you’ve seen a great hunting dog in action.
Chances also are pretty good you’ve seen an out-of-control canine that
Illinois squirrel hunters remain positive with season opener near
Ralph Loos
July 22, 2024
Days leading up to the much-anticipated Aug. 1 opening of the Illinois squirrel season often get dampened by depressing numbers depicting declines in participation and harvest.
So let’s start with this: Hunters harvested 265,000
Here’s how to beat the mid-summer bass lull
Site Staff
July 21, 2024
During late May and through pretty much all of June, bass-fishing action can be expected from dark to dark. As the middle of the summer settles in, that all seems to change.
While there
Progress on EHD benefits the Illinois deer herd
Tim Bunton
July 20, 2024
These days, there’s a bit of apprehension in Tom Collings’ stride when he begins his annual inspection of hunting property along the Illinois River.
His weekly walks begin in August and continue through September,
Lake Michigan fisherman: ‘Holy crap – it’s a sturgeon’
Anthony Candia
July 19, 2024
Ernesto Amparan has been fishing Lake Michigan since he was just a tiny tot – yet despite ongoing jokes about Chicago shorelines, he’s never come across a dead body.
He’d never seen a sturgeon,
Illinois’ statewide fishing report on July 19, 2024
Staff Report
July 19, 2024
Summer lull yet to hit largemouth bass, catfish. Here’s a look at the Illinois fishing report from across the state on July 19, 2024.
