Plan drafted in Missouri to save hellbender — North America’s largest salamander

Any fisherman who says he can’t remember if he or she has ever seen an Eastern hellbender is certainly telling a fish story, because it’s a specimen impossible to forget.
“Not pretty” is how the hellbender is typically described. There are only a few records of the amphibian species ever being present in Illinois – the last verified hellbender was caught by a commercial angler on Wabash River in White County in 1989.

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