Watch footage of an absolutely incredible buck being raised behind a fence at the Flees family’s Wilderness Whitetails in Wisconsin. The buck’s rack is rumored to have grossed 406 5/8 inches as a 2-year-old. Click here to learn more about the deer called Sudden Impact.
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County: Cook
Size: 6 pounds, 5 ounces; 22 inches
Date: April 25, 2009
Notable: Smallmouth two ounces short of state record.
Every spring there’s a brief window of opportunity when nearly every fish species bites well. In central Illinois, the window is open.
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Illinois fishing report 4-30-09Anglers can expect to find a little bit of everything biting this weekend. Crappie are still good in most of Illinois, bass are spawning, bluegill are moving shallow and catfish are active.
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Turkey totals mixed so farThe wet spring appears to be impacting hunting in Illinois' North Zone but is less of a factor in the South Zone.
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Turkey Tales: A break from bassFour years of frustrating turkey hunts finally paid off for Jason Walschmidt, who took a break from bass fishing to bag a 23-pound gobbler.
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Welcome two new PSO.com bloggersWe are happy to announce that Adam Johnson and Andrew Ragas will now be writing fishing Web logs for Prairie State Outdoors.
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Tales from the Timber: Nikki’s birdSitting in mud for seven hours pays off for Nikki Walton in the form of her first gobbler, a bird she shot without ever making a sound.
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