Bait shop changes around Chicago, record crossbow usage by Illinois bowhunters, pink salmon records, cougars in Illinois and northern pike on the Chicago lakefront are among the top stories in the outdoors around Chicago during 2022.
A velvet buck spotted while hunting mushrooms, a would-have-been Illinois record white sucker, a pending Illinois-record pink salmon, and a quote on white suckers statewide are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.