Bruce Landwehr of Peoria caught this 2 pound, 1 ounce crappie at a private strip mine outside Farmington.
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Local carp hunters’ TV spot set to airThe Animal Planet show that spent four days filming on and around the Illinois River last summer for a feature on the acrobatic insanity of everyone's least favorite invasive fish, the Asian carp, will be shown Sunday.
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Permits for the 2012 Illinois youth firearm deer hunt to be held Oct. 6 - 7 are still available for purchase over-the-counter. Young hunters not yet 16 years old by the first day of the hunt are eligible to participate.
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It’s time for some new Big Buck StoriesIt's that time. Hunting season. Time to share your successful hunt with the readers of Prairie State Outdoors.
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Old guns are like old friendsGeorge Little: "The pump shotgun that comes out of my safe first during hunting season is showing its age. If that old gun could talk, what tales it would tell."
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Mike Wefer isn’t sure how the drought of 2012 will factor in to the number of quail and pheasants that hunters see this fall. “The short answer is we’re not sure,” he said.
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Turkey federation joins efforts to bring back bobwhitesBobwhite conservation efforts are getting a lift from the National Wild Turkey Federation. The NWTF has agreed to lend its organizational muscle and habitat restoration experience to efforts to bring back the Northern bobwhite.
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