Notes come from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
DALE’S MAILBAG
“Don’t have a buck, haven’t seen one yet this season. However, I was going down the street I saw a doe with some fawns [photo above]. I’ve seen one or two, but never five. Don’t know the doe took on some other doe’s young, unusual.” Bill Peak
A: I’ve seen a couple triplets, but never five.
WILD OF THE WEEK
Andy Knapp spotted this dead emerging cicada at his Minooka home this week. “I’ve never seen this before,” he emailed. Nor have I.
WOTW, the celebration of wild stories and photos around Chicago outdoors, runs most weeks in the special two-page outdoors section in the Sun-Times Sports Saturday. To make submissions, email BowmanOutside@gmail.com or contact me on Facebook (Dale Bowman), Twitter (@BowmanOutside) or Instagram (@BowmanOutside).
A dead emerging cicada.
Andy Knapp
WILD TIMES
ILLINOIS PERMITS/SEASONS
Sunday, Aug. 1: Squirrel hunting opens . . . Applications begin for free upland game permits
HUNTER SAFETY
Aug. 19 and 21: Mundelein, (847) 918-6145
Aug. 20-21: Ingleside, shawnfrey33@gmail.com
Aug. 28-29: Palatine, palatineparks.org
LUNCHTIME LECTURES
Monday, Aug. 2: Patrick McBriarty, author of “Chicago River Bridges,” Bridgehouse Museum on Chicago Riverwalk, free, noon-12:45 p.m., bridgehousemuseum.org/events
DUCKS UNLIMITED
Friday, Aug. 6: Lockport Virtual Event online
U.S. COAST GUARD AUXILIARY
Next Saturday, Aug. 7: Boat America, Chicago, Dan O’Connell, cgaux.doc@gmail.com . . . Boat America, Waukegan, Curt Schumacher, curts402@gmail.com
WINGSHOOTING CLINICS
Aug. 14-15: Shabbona, (815) 757-2949, rakcarlson@comcast.net
SPEARING
Sunday, Aug. 1: Deadline to apply for a sturgeon spearing tag for the Upriver Lakes (Poygan, Winneconne or Butte des Morts), only 500 will be selected.
BIG NUMBER
27-13: Pounds-ounces of Woo Daves winning weight in July, 2000 during the BASS Master Classic in Chicago.
LAST WORD
“Lake Geneva walleye are doing great. We were drop-shotting in 20 feet of water for smallmouth bass and couldn’t keep the walleyes off!”
Roger Jackson, on a good problem to have while fishing with Arden Katz
Geneva Lake walleye.
Provided by Roger Jackson
