Trapping tag drawings set at Illinois sites
Staff Report
October 14, 2025
Trapping permit allocation drawings will take place at several sites this month, DNR announced.
Illinois
Illinois Mixed Bag: Wayne Farm Bureau continuing its raccoon roundup program
Staff and News Reports
October 14, 2025
Increased raccoon population levels and related property damage has led the Wayne County Farm Bureau to continue its “Raccoon Roundup” program during this year’s Illinois trapping and hunting seasons. The organization is offering a $3
Illinois hunters can get automated CWD test results
Staff Report
October 14, 2025
Just as Illinois bowhunters were starting to man their stands earlier this month, DNR announced it will use an automated notification system for a faster and easier way of giving deer hunters results of CWD
Illinois Letters to the Editor: Angler inspired by generosity of Alaskan couple
Illinois Letters To The Editor
October 14, 2025
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 17, 2025 edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
Ralph Loos: Deer hunting times, they are a-changin’ – albeit gradually in Illinois
Ralph Loos
October 14, 2025
Alterations to the Illinois deer season have been less drastic than expected, and it’s already been more than 15 years since DNR biologists and managers stood in front of hunters at public meetings around the
Allure of the rut tantalizes Illinois archers
Ralph Loos
October 14, 2025
William O’Daniel went into the second day of bow season with high hopes and ambitious plans. Humbly, the McLeansboro hunter admitted he almost blew up those plans by releasing an off-kilter arrow.
But give
Nearly 46 million pounds of carp removed from Illinois River
Anthony Candia
October 13, 2025
At the halfway point of 2025, DNR and partner agencies had removed about 46 million pounds of invasive carp from the Illinois River.
That large number is the total haul that came from two
Illinois trout stocking delayed until possibly Halloween
Ralph Loos
October 10, 2025
The only luck a trout fishing die-hard will have when the season opens
Oct. 18 will be to maybe land a carp dressed up for Halloween as a rainbow trout.
That’s because DNR’s
Illinois’ statewide fishing report on Oct. 10, 2025
Outdoor News
October 10, 2025
Walleye, sauger bites reported on rivers, bass slowing. Here’s the Illinois fishing report from across the state on Oct. 10, 2025.
