Mississippi River Pool 24: Rules, Seasons and Permits

Rules that apply at Mississippi River Pool 24

These are the Mississippi River Pool 24 rules that go beyond the Digest, as printed on the fact sheet.

• Cabin site leases and inholdings exist. No hunting within 300 yards of these locations.
• All hunting is to be with shotgun, handgun (deer only), .22 rimfire, muzzleloader, archery, air rifle, and .17 caliber rimfires allowed (no centerfire rifles allowed).
• Tree stands must be portable and removed from the area at the end of each day's hunt. Only one stand may be used and must be labeled with the hunter's name, address, and phone number.

A few Digest rules that matter at Mississippi River Pool 24:

Digest rules from the 2026-27 Illinois Hunting and Trapping Digest (Illinois Department of Natural Resources); orange rule at IDNR hunter orange page; baiting at IDNR baiting page; Sunday rule: IDNR Sunday page. Site rules from the record source. Checked November 13, 2026.

Mississippi River Pool 24: hunts offered by season

18 season lines out of 21 are available on Mississippi River Pool 24, per IDNR. Open lines by group: 5 upland and small game, 4 deer, 4 turkey, 3 waterfowl and 2 furbearers. You cannot hunt late winter antlerless, special cwd and snipe & rail here.

Season-by-season exceptions for Mississippi River Pool 24:

• Firearm: The use of a centerfire rifle is prohibited.
• Ducks, Coots, & Mergansers: Waterfowl hunting is restricted to marked blind/hunting sites (see digital map above) except during September Canada Goose and Teal seasons and after regular Canada Goose season (i.e., snow goose). Blind/hunting sites are allocated by way of a public drawing conducted on the third Sunday in July in odd-numbered years. Blind/hunting sites are allocated for a 2-year period.
• Goose: Follows the same regulations as Ducks, Coots, & Mergansers.
• Youth Waterfowl: Follows the same regulations as Ducks, Coots, & Mergansers.
• Upland Birds: This site is open to quail hunting only.
• Hunting: Rimfire rifles .22 caliber and smaller may be used from sunset to sunrise. Furbearer hunting is closed during Firearm Deer Season. Hunters with a valid, unfilled firearm deer permit for the hunt area may take coyotes during legal hours of the firearm deer season. Groundhog hunting is permitted. No hunting within 100 yards of an occupied blind.
• Trapping: A USFWS trapping permit is required on US Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuges.

Availability and exceptions from the IDNR Hunt Illinois fact sheet (record source); statewide dates in the Digest; checked November 13, 2026.

County rules behind Mississippi River Pool 24

Illinois has no hunting units; the county is the unit, and Mississippi River Pool 24 touches 2. No CWD confirmations are on file for the 2 counties below.

Open a county page for harvest history, towns and more land: Pike County and Calhoun County.

County rules from the Digest, IDNR CWD counties and the leftover permit list (IDNR permit page); checked November 13, 2026.

Mississippi River Pool 24 neighbours that are closed to hunting

Close to Mississippi River Pool 24 you will pass places that the records mark closed to hunting.

Closed rows are IDNR sites with no Hunt Illinois fact sheet and no hunting flag on the land-use layer; see the full closed list. Checked November 13, 2026.

Restocking near Mississippi River Pool 24

Supplies are closest in Pleasant Hill, a straight-line 6 miles from Mississippi River Pool 24. Pittsfield, 16 miles out, is bigger: 4,048 people (2024). Within ten miles of Nebo and Pleasant Hill you reach Mississippi River Pool 24.

Towns from places.json (Census 2024 estimates); IDNR sites from the CWD sampling list and the IDNR contact page; businesses from services.json listings; straight-line miles. Checked November 13, 2026.

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