DOVE-HUNTING OPENER

Ranked prospects/field conditions at nearby and some Downstate public sites. Opening day in Illinois is Tuesday.

Des Plaines SFWA: Best nearby sunflowers.

Jim Edgar Panther Creek SFWA: Permit holders will hunt all six fields daily over sunflowers. Seeing birds.

Iroquois County SWA: Decent sunflowers with some ragweed, doves “using site hard at the moment.”

Matthiessen SP: Sunflowers drying well.

Shabbona SP: Decent crop of sunflowers, millet and wheat, some ragweed.

Kankakee River SP: Decent sunflowers, some ragweed.

Silver Springs SFWA: Optimistic, some birds, good drying sunflowers.

Green River SWA: Good sunflowers at five fields.

Chain O’Lakes SP: Good pearl millet.