Setting Illinois Shooting Complex free may be its silver bullet
The World Shooting and Recreation Complex in Sparta is still chronologically a teenager, but the State appears ready to pack it up,…
The World Shooting and Recreation Complex in Sparta is still chronologically a teenager, but the State appears ready to pack it up,…

The 11.4-pound Indiana burbot blew away the current Illinois record. In November 2020, Luc van Brenk broke the Illinois burbot record with his first ever burbot catch during a trip to Diversey Harbor.

When Am Vets Outdoors was founded in southern Illinois almost four years ago, the goal was to help 20 to 25 veterans each year “get out to do some hunting and fishing.”
Those turned
A western Illinois couple died at a hospital Feb. 4, hours after a sheriff’s deputy pulled them from a farm pond following an apparent ice fishing accident, police said.

Field reports from Illinois Conservation Police CPOs.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District recently received $1.5 million from the states to continue advancing the engineering and design of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project on the upper Illinois Waterway.
Upcoming outdoor-related events from around Illinois.

Fishing – especially bass fishing – in both Centralia-area lakes is very good. Centralia Lake has a maximum depth of 23 feet, and a mean depth of 10 feet.
Outdoor news items from around the country.
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