
Jeremiah Haas: Mother Nature doesn’t follow ‘the book’
According to the outdoor rule book, walleyes spawn at 42 degrees on wind-swept shorelines over rock on a full moon! Big fish eggs are no good because they are from old females. Ducks and geese

According to the outdoor rule book, walleyes spawn at 42 degrees on wind-swept shorelines over rock on a full moon! Big fish eggs are no good because they are from old females. Ducks and geese

Improving Lake Michigan’s Chinook fishery was the goal of volunteers who showed up at Indiana’s East Chicago Marina to release three- and-a-half-inch-long salmon into pens built for the young fish.
Until the middle of

Deer hunters keeping score at home may instinctively place Ford County as No. 20 on the state’s chronological list of counties with at least one confirmed case of CWD.
It is actually No. 21.

Scientists at the Illinois Natural History Survey have found clues to determine when the state’s timber rattlesnakes emerge from their cold-weather underground dens.
Just in case anyone wants to spy them sunning themselves in

While hunters have been seeing fewer and fewer Canada geese from blinds along the state’s rivers in the fall, people living in Illinois cities and towns are noticing more and more of the birds –

Saugeyes and muskies appear to be doing quite well in what some consider to be the “cozy” Lake Carlton.
Actually, except for a few pauses in the crappie and largemouth bass populations, all fish
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Illinois published in the May 3, 2024, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.

Illinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Illinois Conservation Police CPOs. These reports are from the May 3, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it will invest $1.5 million and work with Illinois DNR to remove two dams – the Riverside and Color Plant Dams – located on the Sangamon River at
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