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Frank Bates shared this photo of a coon caught on his trapline.
County: Hancock
Date and Season: Nov. 3, 2008; Bow
Notable: Buck was making scrapes and rubs.
County: TBA
Date and Season: TBA; Bow
Notable: Green score 193 5/8ths weighing in at 250 pounds!
County: Sangamon
Size: 48 pounds, 8 ounces and 35 pounds, 5 ounces
Date: May 2, 2009
Notable: Bowfishing newcomer sets two state records.
Illinois offers free fishing at state parks this Saturday as part of It's Our River Day.
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Mushroom season enters stretch runMorel season so far in Illinois has been a mixed bag: some sackfuls but lots of looking with little success. But there's still hope in central and northern Illinois.
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Gov. Blagojevich wants to increase money in various Department of Natural Resources special funds by $37 million, or 28 percent, a move that would require raising fees.
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The impact of new female hunters may be far greater than just one more hunter spending money on new stuff. Judy Rhodes, a member of a Texas women’s outdoors organization says, “Men tend to stick with the same hunting partner for (about) 70 years. For every woman we introduce to the outdoors, she brings in seven (more).”
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Unfriendly competition: deer hunters share timber with coyotesAre coyotes getting in the way of deer hunters this fall?
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says more DNA from the invasive Asian Carp has been found near Lake Michigan.
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