How about a 17-point buck weighing out at 290 pounds taken by a Manteno hunter in Grundy County?
Or a nice 10-pound, 3-ounce walleye, this week’s best catch on the Kankakee River at Momence.
Hunters might want to check the recall on a EXO-Tech tree stand harness and readers will want to know more about the plan to poison fish along six miles of the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal.
That’s just a sample of the stories to be found in Friday’s edition of The Daily Journal’s Outdoors section.
Each week Outdoors provides the most complete coverage of hunting, fishing, environmental and conservation topics in northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana.
Sportsmen as well as outdoor groups and organizations are welcome to submit news and announcements. If you’ve got a trophy to brag about, we’d like to hear from you. If your group is planning an event, we’ll help promote it.
Submissions can be sent to Bill Byrns at bbyrns@daily-journal.com or by calling (815) 468-2732.
I just recently came across some astounding numbers on the amount of information overload available to those who surf the Internet.
According to Pete Cashmore, a networking and technology columnist for CNN, social networking fans are flooding sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube with more information than anyone could possibly read.
Twitter has approximately 25 million “Tweets” posted per day according to Cashmore.
Facebook users post around 45 million updates daily.
YouTube says that 20 hours of video is uploaded to its servers every minute.
Seems to me that it is time for a lot of people to step away for the computer, take a deep breath and go outside.
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