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,
Springfield – DNR announc-ed Aug. 28 that it will close 11 state parks and lay off 39 or 40 employees before the end of the year. Details of the closings were still being sorted out
Springfield – The floor – and the door – has opened for Illinois’ deer hunters. As promised, DNR and the state’s Joint Deer Population Control Task Force scheduled a series of public meetings to discuss
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
Crab Orchard Lake: Fishing traffic has been fairly light. Crappie anglers are holding in water 8-10 feet over cover or around bridge pillars. Minnows and jigs have been equally effective. Catfish are hitting throughout the
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
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