Articles filed under Outdoors
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New website offers fly fishing featuresSep 12, 2012 5:32 pm - Continuing to share the legacy of fly fishing as well as to expand the sport, the American Museum of Fly Fishing (AMFF) has launched a new and informative web site at ww...
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Drinking on the Fox Chain ruining the experienceSep 12, 2012 5:03 pm - Old-timers can remember when a gallon of gasoline was in the 18-20 cents a gallon range. That meant a couple bucks would do the job until the vehicle reached somewhere ...
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Drought fueling deer disease in Illinois, MidwestSep 06, 2012 4:15 pm - CHAMPAIGN — The drought that’s dried out much of the Midwest is now fueling an outbreak of a disease often fatal to deer in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri, the Ill...
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Thriving river otters fair game for trappersSep 06, 2012 4:14 pm - SPRINGFIELD — River otters are fair game for Illinois trappers for the first time since 1929 now that the population is back from the brink in a big way. A loss of habit...
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Plenty of mileage left in the boat-towing debateSep 05, 2012 8:31 pm - Outdoor scribe and longtime friend of the outdoors Frank Sargeant penned this piece the other day. I thought it was appropriate to bring you some excerpts. “The recent a...
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Fishing’s greatest reward: A shared memorySep 05, 2012 11:04 am - I am a moody and very judgmental chap. I’m qualifying the following column because there are only two television fishing shows I’ll watch on any given day. I enjoy both ...
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Helpful terminology for the fishing soulAug 29, 2012 4:04 pm - I enjoy most of the email I receive every week. Notice that I said “most,” which acknowledges a couple cookies who have laid claim to the muskie population on the north...
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Ease your burden, and point the vehicle NorthAug 29, 2012 11:04 am - STEPHENSON, Wis. — It’s like being in northern Canada, only it’s much closer and overall less expensive. Even with high the price of gasoline, it is somehow easier for m...
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Committee wants to reduce salmon stocking in Lake MichiganAug 27, 2012 4:34 pm - The number of salmon stocked in Lake Michigan would be reduced sharply for three years under a proposal that experts say is necessary to maintain a balance between sport...
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What a whopper! Hawaii woman reels half-ton marlinAug 23, 2012 8:42 pm - HONOLULU — A Hawaii tournament angler fought a 12-foot, half-ton marlin in the Pacific Ocean for more than four hours before she and her teammates got the monster fish o...