Duck Hunting in Illinois?

Lol nope, no waterfowlers in Illinois. It looks like that is a burb of Chicago? Tons and I mean tons of local geese around there. There's a lot of parks, golf courses, etc. where they can find open water and feed all year so they never leave. They have issues with them all the time. My grandfather lives in Peoria and hunts 3-4 times a week even at 80. They shot 100 or so local geese during the first season and 40 had bands :). They allow the state to band every year on their club and then shoot the heck out of them that fall.

Certainly try knocking on doors but that area has a ton of libs and I'd think most good places would have hunters. Generally speaking the birds will have very strict patterns until it freezes further north and you get some migration.

Again you are talking about Chicago, one of the most liberal cities in the country. Go a little further south and they duck and goose hunt a ton especially along the rivers.

Those native birds in the big cities are very tough to hunt. They have their patterns and unless you want to sky bust them they are hard to decoy unless something makes their pattern change. It's also peak bow season for the next month. After first gun season is when it picks up, plus that's around when th first freeze is that moves the birds.

You gotta realize when you have 150" bucks walking around in prime time they take a precedent over a sub prime duck time.

If the lake stays down, you just gotta find em stacked up.

But you know that

These midwesterners dont know the lengths to which ive gone just on the remote promise of big ducks. Ducks i can see off the road??? I might just get in trouble :lol:

Pie face in action

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I keep seeing ducks and Canadians flying around and it seems like nobody wants to kill em.

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Probably illegal to do that even if they're here illegally