Hunting News
Before 2025
- Illinois’ Rock River produces another state-record shovelnose sturgeonThe Rock River’s “shovelnose shuffle” in Illinois took a break in 2023, but has started 2024 with a new step: Steve Pohlmeier’s 12.95-pound catch. Three...
- Illinois returns to National Deer Association’s Top 5 list for ‘deer harvest with a bow’Illinois regained its Top 5 ranking as a bowhunting harvesting state, at least according the National Deer Association’s annual Deer Report. In the 2024 repor...
- Delta Waterfowl’s Hen House Program aims to help boost nest success for mallardsDelta Waterfowl is expected to install 2,218 new “Hen House” nesting structures during the next couple of months, while also performing annual maintenance o...
- Three Sandhill Wildlife Area deer hunts in Wisconsin gather a ton of ‘science’There is at least one place in Wisconsin where in-person deer registration is required, and that’s at the Sandhill Wildlife Area near Babcock in central Wisco...
- WI Daily Update: Catching winter walleyes when the bite is toughHere are some techniques to make the walleyes come to you when the bite is tough. The post WI Daily Update: Catching winter walleyes when the bite is tough appe...
- Creel survey from New York’s Lake George shows bass, laker fishing is solidPreliminary results of a recent angler creel survey on Lake George show that the lake’s bass and lake trout populations are fishing well, but landlocked Atlan...
- MN Daily Update: Catching winter walleyes when the bite is toughHere are some techniques to make the walleyes come to you when the bite is tough. The post MN Daily Update: Catching winter walleyes when the bite is tough appe...
- Dustin Connell wins Bass Pro Tour’s season-opening tournament on Toledo BendThroughout his brief professional fishing career, 31 year-old Alabama pro Dustin Connell has shown that he can do many things on the water. He qualified for a B...
- Fishing team from southern Illinois pulls injured anglers out of water during college tournamentA pair of anglers from McKendree University in southern Illinois paused their competitive spirit during a practice round at the recent Bassmaster College Series...
- Illinois Letters to the Editor: Support for crossbow hunting, one buck limit per hunterReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 9, 2024, edition of Illinois Outdoor News. The post Illinois Letters to the Editor: Support for cro...
- World Shooting Complex lease extended through 2036, keeping big trapshooting championships in southern IllinoisSome of the uncertainty surrounding the state-owned World Shooting Complex was cleared Jan. 30 when the Amateur Trapshooting Association and DNR finalized an ex...
- Brent Manning, the man behind Illinois DNR’s ‘glory days,’ dies at age 70The Illinois DNR director position has been open more than a half-dozen times over the past two decades – and each time one name was instantly and automatical...
- Illinois’ statewide fishing report on Feb. 6, 2024Ice finally arrives, then quickly departs in much of state. A look at the Illinois fishing report from across the state on Feb. 6, 2024. The post Illinois’ st...
- Lake Ontario’s Irondequoit Bay in New York: Fine fishing, with or without iceYes, Irondequoit Bay is part of Lake Ontario and is managed as such under Lake Ontario-specific angling regulations. But keep in mind, too, that at 1,660 acres,...
- New York’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across New York published in the Feb. 9, 2024, edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York’s Outdoor C...