Best in years? Excellent fishing pattern developing for fall walleyes in 2014
Site Staff
September 20, 2014
Jig-n-minnow, crankbaits, and live-bait rigs all provide top presentations for autumn walleyes
Illinois
Whitetail Alliance suggests restraint
Site Staff
September 18, 2014
A growing and determined group of hunters in Illinois is borrowing strategy from a national waterfowl organization as part of an attempt to resurrect the state’s slumping deer herd.
Northern Illinois Fishing Report- September 19th, 2014
Site Staff
September 18, 2014
Chain: The panfish bite is very consistent. Fish small jigs tipped with spikes or waxies under a slip float. Fish the weedbeds and set your depth to just above the weeds. The largemouths have moved
Trapping licenses will be subject to new law
Site Staff
September 18, 2014
As veteran trapper Neal Graves put it, “trapping is no longer stuck in the 1960s and ‘70s.”
Southern Illinois Fishing Report – September 19th, 2014
Site Staff
September 18, 2014
Crab Orchard Lake: Crappie action has improved most 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
Flyway Vision: ducks may not use rivers to navigate
Site Staff
September 18, 2014
What we long assumed about ducks and how they navigate their way south down the Illinois River Valley each fall may not be true.
Central Illinois Fishing Report – September 19th, 2014
Site Staff
September 18, 2014
Lake Bloomington: Hybrid stripers are fair, with best action early and just before dusk when fish are chasing shad on the surface and hitting jigs or Roadrunners. Bass best on jigs, chatterbaits and soft plastics
Illinois Rivers Fishing Report – September 19th, 2014
Site Staff
September 18, 2014
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
Illinois Cuffs & Collars – September 19th, 2014
Site Staff
September 18, 2014
Region I A District 7 CPO conducted a boat safety and sport fishing compliance check of two men fishing from a boat near the dam at Oak Run Lake in Knox County. When asked for
