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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WGN) — An Indiana man allegedly cheated in an Illinois bass fishing tournament earlier this month by bringing fish across state lines and trying to pass them off as tournament ...

Since the inception of the Illinois High School Association’s state bass fishing tournament in 2009, Southern Illinois schools have been proving it is the size of the fish, not the size of the school ...

Trey McKinney led from stem to stern. The 20-year-old from Illinois caught five smallmouth bass that weighed 23 pounds, 13 ounces Sunday to clinch the championship and the first prize of $102,500 at ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WGN) — An Indiana man ...