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January 15, 2009
Illinois – Fishing – Crappie and Bass

Great fishing packages on Rend Lake, Lake of Egypt, Crab Orchard Lake and Kinkaid Lake. They guide for crappie and bass on all three lakes with tremendous success. For crappie, they usually fish Rend Lake, as the lake has an abundant population of fish in the 10 to 12 inch mark and several up to 15 inches.

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January 15, 2009
Most Popular Calibers For Big Game

From the Boone and Crockett Club: Although the venerable .30-06 and .270 remain among the favorites, Boone and Crockett Club big-game records show that hunters with one of the various .300 Magnums are taking decidedly more North American trophies than any other caliber. Surprisingly, the second-most-popular trophy-taker isnt a firearm ” its a bow. Boone and Crockett compiled the data from its records book entries from 2007 through 2009.

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January 8, 2009
Illinois – Whitetail Hunt – Trophy

Whitetail deer hunting on 4000+ privately owned and operated acres throughout Jefferson county in Southern Illinois.

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January 8, 2009
Feds officially move to ˜relist wolves

Washington ” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made official the œrelisting of gray wolves in the Midwest, where theyd been removed from the Endangered Species List just a year and a half ago.

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January 8, 2009
Feds to Blagojevich: Put DNR funds back

Springfield – The federal government has sent a letter to Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office, demanding the state return millions of dollars it “swept” from a handful of DNR accounts last year.

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