The lull after the regular fall waterfowl season can be frustrating for avid bird hunters. Weekdays normally spent gearing up for weekends jammed with waterfowl hunts become alarmingly quiet.
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge celebrated its 75th anniversary this year, and it has been 50 years since Rend Lake opened.
Sometimes a package of game meat would be thawed and not used, which I promptly put back into the freezer to use at a later date.
Off-season scouting with the use of an app like onX Hunt, HuntWise, or others won’t allow you to score big game the day you’re scouting, but they can help you fill a tag when the
Even a smallmouth just a pound or two will bend a jigging stick in half and won’t give up after the first or second and sometimes third thumping run.
Their tenacity makes them plenty
Reader-submitted letters to Illinois Outdoor News.
An 8-pound largemouth bass from Crab Orchard Lake. A 4.8-pound crappie at Kinkaid Lake. A 51.75-inch muskie caught in northern Minnesota.
What would it take for a fish outside of the “cool species crowd”
Springfield — The Illinois Trappers Association (ITA) will hold a single fur sale in 2023. The sale will be held Feb. 18 at Krile Auction House on Route 32 in Strasburg. Doors will open at
Roughly halfway through the current bobcat season, harvest figures appeared to mirror previous Illinois seasons.
“While numbers can change by the minute, as of January 3 the current harvest was right at 128,” Stan
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