Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 31, 2025 edition of Illinois Outdoor News.

This is why live fishing sonar should be banned—jerkbaits destroyed cold front bass. I Sat Next To A Gun 'Fanatic' On A Plane. When I Told Him What My Job Is, Things Got Interesting. Tim Curry’s wry ...

BABBITT — A fishing boat cruised across Bear Island Lake on July 3 to an undisclosed honey hole where Joe Kane, head of design at Vexilar, planned to test out some of the fishing sonar electronics ...

Milliken Fishing shows how to transform a smartphone into a fishing sonar. Senate Approves Banning Unemployment Benefits For People With More Than $1m Income Whiskey Vs. Rum—We Asked A Nutritionist ...

Be it Garmin LiveScope, Lowrance Active Target 2 or Humminbird Mega Live 2, live sonar seems to have popped up on bass boats overnight, but saltwater anglers have not adopted it in similar numbers—at ...

DULUTH — Students in the University of Minnesota Duluth's department of theater have been getting in touch with the longtime Minnesota tradition of ice fishing as they prepare to present "The Ice ...

CATO TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The World Ice Fishing Championship has wrapped up, and one country is taking home the top prize. Lithuania was ranked No. 1 in the final team ranking posted by USA Ice ...

LAKEVIEW, MI — Chad Schaub rigged a small fishing rod amid a symphony of hand augers chewing through the ice on Lake Tamarack Friday. Dropping a thin line through a icy porthole, the Morley native and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Lizzy Pashinski, left, shows off the large mouth bass that won her the youth division title at the ...

WILMINGTON — Police believe a propane-fueled heating device used in an ice shanty at the time of a flash fire on Harriman Reservoir may have had a faulty propane cylinder, but also received new ...