Illinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police Officers. These reports are from the Oct. 16, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.
One fish is all it takes. That was the case Sept. 26 on Evergreen Lake, where Gerald Fantin and Jarid Tomnitz needed just one muskie to win the second-to-last regular season Illinois Muskie Tournament Trail
Public drawings for trapping permits have been scheduled at several DNR sites this month.
The Conservation Fund has purchased 346 acres in southern Illinois that will provide public access to the state’s newest fish and wildlife area while expanding opportunities for hunting, fishing and wildlife observation.
The acquisition
The trapping program will include three trappers at Big Bend, one trapper at Morrison-Rockwood and one trapper at Little Rock Creek. Applications will be accepted until the drawing at 10 a.m. Oct. 30. The drawing
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 16, 2026 edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
I suppose it was inevitable. Give Illinois deer hunters a camera, a big buck and a good reason to create some friendly competition, and eventually somebody is going to turn it into a contest.
Put a pointer on a pheasant and the dog freezes.
Put a flushing dog into the same cover. The bird may explode from the grass seconds later.
Now change the pheasant. A wild
You could legitimately question what Illinois fisheries biologists were thinking decades ago when they decided to introduce rainbow trout to a state where cold-water streams are barely more common than mountain ranges.
Still, somehow
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