
Where do fish come from in Illinois? Let’s have a talk
This isn’t designed to be a talk about sex, but in a way it is, I guess, so maybe glance around the room to make sure nobody is peeking over your shoulder.
Fact: Fish

This isn’t designed to be a talk about sex, but in a way it is, I guess, so maybe glance around the room to make sure nobody is peeking over your shoulder.
Fact: Fish

Crappie fishing buddies Tom Henske and Bill Royce both call the annual Let’s Go Fishing Show “a meeting of the minds.”
Not that they agree on why – or much of anything else.

Illinois DNR fisheries biologists broke a new fish collection record this month, earning much-deserved applause.
But is it actually good news or bad news? The 10-day harvest operation in the Starved Rock pool

Southern Illinois again dominated the list of top-harvesting counties during this year’s firearms deer season, but a slight drop in the number of deer taken overall puts to rest a notion that allowing single-shot rifles

White bass, catfish continue to bite up and down state. A look at the Illinois fishing report on Dec. 22, 2023.

After trekking hundreds of miles across Wisconsin and into Illinois, a male elk died after it was struck by a semi-truck southwest of Chicago.
The bull elk was four years old and part

There’s not a time in my life when I don’t remember enjoying fishing.
Camping with my family as a child, I remember escaping down to the lake at the soonest possible moment and fishing

Most of us do not get to spend all day and night engaged in the outdoors. Time availability in the field changes during your life as you gain responsibilities and obligations. When I was in

As Winter Solstice nears along with the end of the year, I seem to always become more introspective. It’s as if this particular season serves as a poignant juncture for said introspection, particularly when contemplating
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