Check out our Interactive Fishing Maps! HENNEPIN, Ill. It's madness I tell you, pure madness. The madness I'm talking about is the sauger-frenzied Illinois River in March. March Madness on the ...

After a six-year closure, the popular winter fishery for walleyes and saugers will resume Dec. 1 below the Mississippi River dams at Dubuque, Bellevue and Clinton. The experimental closure, from Dec.

Check out our Interactive Fishing Maps! PERU, Ill. The Illinois River is known as the sauger capital of the world, and December is typically the time when the river's sauger bunch up in small schools ...

"What is that?" a young angler asks inquisitively as he reels in a fish from the rain-swollen waters below Wheeler Dam in north Alabama. A light drizzle is falling on this early December day as the ...

It’s difficult trying to keep up with all the fishing, hunting and birding activities in the Coulee Region. Walleye and sauger fishing is improving below the locks and dams on the Mississippi River, ...

Bill Guerrini was shaking his head when we arrived at the Henry boat ramp Wednesday morning. An explanation required only a gesture toward the muddy, fast-moving Illinois River behind him. “You should ...

TRI-LAKES AREA — A cold, rainy day in January isn’t my usual idea of a good time to fish. But when I heard saugers were biting below Murray Dam at Little Rock recently, I grabbed an ultralight rod and ...