Newsletter of the Winnebagoland Musky Club December 2015

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1 NOVEMBER 11 TH MEETING The Musky News December 2015 Todd Forcier from Todd Forcier s Guide Service in Wisconsin Rapids was our presenter for this meeting. Todd discussed fishing tactics he uses guiding and fishing on the Petenwell Flowage and Wisconsin River system. Todd has a website which is Todd showed us how he positions himself and how he fishes below the dams on the Wisconsin River. This river system is teaming with fish but there are some dangers in fishing it blind, so a guide is advisable. To book a guiding date with Todd on the Flowage or in some of the other waters in Oneida, Vilas, Marathon, Portage, Wood, Adams, and Juneau Counties you can give him a call at or him at forciermusky@gmail.com. DECEMBER 2 ND MEETING NOTICE This meeting every year is for the election of officers. We also accept volunteers for the various committees of the Winnebagoland Musky Club. We will be electing the following officers: President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary. Please try and attend this meeting even though there is no speaker. We will have Joe s Fox Hut Pizza as a snack. The meeting will begin at 7:00 pm sharp at the Legion Clubhouse on Fond du Lac Avenue. We are now back on our regular meeting schedule of the first Wednesday of every month. FISH REPORT No fish were recorded since last newsletter FOR SALE SHIMANO TRANX 500 PG, 9 3 OKUMA EVX graphite collapsible rod, reel spooled with 80lb POWER PRO. Used only 1 week. $400 o.b.o. Call member Dik

2 November 2015 As most of you are aware there was a scheduling snafu at our meeting place on October 7 th. Somehow the Legion booked FDL Baseball into our normal time. About 25 of us showed up so we had a cocktail and a brief meeting in the lobby where we tried to sort out the problem. The Legion also booked up our Nov. 4 th date so we decided in the lobby that the next meeting will be November 11 th. Because of the disappointment of not having the bait building night, Scott unselfishly agreed to come back the next Wednesday evening (Oct 14) to direct the bait building project. About 15 showed up. We will be doing this again soon and also include a leader building seminar. November 11 Meeting Yes, November 11 is correct. This is the date we established with the Legion till we get back on their calendar correctly in December for a 12/2, meeting. Our guest speaker for November 11 is Todd Forcier from Todd Forcier s Guide Service. Todd specializes in guiding on the Petenwell Flowage and fishing in the counties of Adams, Juneau, Marathon, Oneida, Portage, Vilas, and Wood. Further information about Todd and his guide service can be found on his website The meeting will begin at 7:00 pm at the American Legion Clubhouse on Fond du Lac Avenue. Todd is a supporter of our Club in the past and we look forward to his seminar. Newsworthy: Bob Haase had his last radio broadcast of Outdoors Thursday on KFIZ 1450 on Thursday October 29 th at 9 in the morning. Bob had this regular show for 11 years sponsored by Dutch s Trading Post and KFIZ. Bob s theme of his last show was to make sure that everyone enjoys the outdoors that we are blessed with in our State. Bob is a charter member of this club and serves as a director of our Musky Alliance. He is very active with us and several other outdoor organizations like Trout Unlimited, Walleyes for Tomorrow and the WI Conservation Congress and Winnebago Streamers. This is just a short list of the outdoor service organizations in which he is a member. We value greatly Bob s membership in our Club. Congratulations, Bob for your successful radio program. On his farewell show Bob stated that he is simply going to practice what he preaches, and get outdoors and enjoy it. FISH REPORT BY HARLAN HOPP 9/25 Greg Stubbe 37 Suick Planting Ground 9/26 Greg Stubbe 40 Jake Planting Ground (Greg has now wrestled the First Musky of Outing Cup from Tom Francis. Tom was the first winner for his catch at the Alliance Outing and Greg won this traveling trophy at the September Outing on the Three Lakes Chain. 10/13 Tom Francis 37 Sucker Caldron Falls MORE NEWS : The Website is now up and running. Here is the address and keystrokes you will want to use to access the website. Thanks to Richard Feustal and Bob Haase for their work in bringing this to our club. We hope this will open up our communication lines further and be fun and informational. 1. Click: Musky News from the menu across the top below the title Winnebagoland Musky Club 2. Click: The blue rectangle of the desired month s newsletter. 3. Click: The back arrow to return to the Club Website 4. Also you can read about our November 11 th meeting on the Events & Photos NOTICE** The December 2 Meeting is the ANNUAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS & COMMITTEES. Don t miss this one.

3 October 2015 Our last meeting was August 5 th. This meeting was presided over by past President, Jerry LaPine. Our next meeting is Wednesday October 7:00pm. Scott Klapperich will be leading us in the building of bucktails. This program is back by popular demand. If you missed this program a year ago, you will have another chance to learn and enjoy this fun and practical activity. The cost of this will be $10 per dbl bladed bucktail. There have been several excellent events this summer that you all should know that involved members of our club and support from our club. OPERATION MUSKY: The first event to be mentioned is OPERATION MUSKY. This has been an annual event for the last eight years organized by our guide member Paul Klein and 3 other Wisconsin guides. Over the last eight 8 years, 160 recent veterans have been able to participate in a welcome home/thank you fishing expedition to BayStore Camp on Lake of the Woods. This year 20 vets were guests at LOTW and were accompanied by 10 professional guides. Paul stated that it is so rewarding to see the joy these guys expressed in their four-day outing. Paul said that many of the veterans experienced some tough duty and this time was very healing and therapeutic for them. An event like this carries a high price tag in the area of $35-$40,000/year. Our club was called upon to help support this event and we were happy to offer monetary help. There were a couple of large corporate sponsors such as Fleet Farm and Amzoil. Special thanks to Paul for donating his boat and services and obtaining our support to this worthwhile project! Sadly, this was the last year for this event that will be remembered fondly by 160 veterans. Veteran Musky Fishing Trip: Another meaningful event that our club and individual members just completed was the Salute the Troops outing just held earlier in September on the Three Lakes Chain. At this project, which was initially conceived by Tracy Quallman of Marian University and Dave and Mary LaPine, we hosted twelve veterans for a weekend of musky fishing, meals, lodging, and comradery. The head chefs for this weekend were Mary LaPine, Tuesday Klapperich, Chris Stubbe, and Judy Hopp. Boats and guiding was provided by Scott Klapperich, Paul Klein, Dave LaPine, Dik Suzek, Greg Stubbe and Harlan Hopp. Generous monetary support to this outing was provided by Greg Stubbe s employer, NATURAL STONE VENEERS of Fond du Lac and the NAVY CLUB SHIP 75 service club of Fond du Lac. Thank you very much for your support! The fish did not cooperate completely but the experience was extremely rewarding for our Club members and the participating vets. Thank you to all who donated time and effort to this project and to the club for voting to support the event. Hopefully we can do more of this type of thing in the future. On a last note about the Salute the Troops outing; Dave LaPine said that as he was packing up to leave, a car full of the vets pulled up next to him and gave formal military salute as a gesture of gratitude. Dave felt very moved and happy beyond description.

4 October 2015 At the last meeting we received a report on the Wild Rose Hatchery project that we helped sponsor baby muskies were harvested from the hatchery ponds and planted in various brood stock lakes, the Bay of Green Bay, and the Winnebago System. Importantly we note that our fundraising efforts with the raffle boat was better this year by about $1000. We sold about $4130 in tickets. If we can continue this trend, we are on our way to do more meaningful things for the resource and the community in the future. Congratulations and thank you to all of our ticket sellers! We do many things for the resource and the community. When you are trying to explain to potential raffle ticket donors what we do with our money, remember these 3 projects mentioned above. We also have our resume available to list what we have done in the past. Bob Haase and Richard Feustel have reported that our web site is closer to the finish line. It can be found at FISH REPORT BY HARLAN HOPP 8/2 John Bartow 34 ¼ Lake of the Woods Dbl 8 Bucktail 8/4 John Bartow 47 ½ Lake of the Woods Dbl 8 Bucktail 8/5 John Bartow 42 ½ Lake of the Woods Dbl 8 Bucktail 8/5 John Bartow 38 Lake of the Woods Dbl 8 Bucktail 8/19 Greg Stubbe 34 ½ Planting Ground Dbl 8 Bucktail The Traveling Trophy for the First Musky of the Outing has been wrestled away from Tom Francis by Greg Stubbe. We will be discussing the next outing at our meeting.

5 September 2015 The Wisconsin Musky Alliance National Open held Aug set a new attendance record of 1266 anglers that registered 195 fish. The winner, Andrew Martin of Williams Bay caught 5 muskies measuring 200 inches on Lake Family 4 Which includes the following lakes,big and Little St Germain, Found, Star, Big Muskellunge, Irving, Ballard White Birch and Plum lakes. The Tournament Boast was won by Tim Klaver of Eagle River and the Raffle Boat was won by Chuck Kaiser from Howards Grove. The largest musky was 49 caught on Kentuck. Complete results of the tourney can be found at the following internet address: AUGUST MEETING The meeting on August 3 was conducted by Past President Jerry LaPine. Thanks Jerry, for filling in. Several members returned raffle tickets at this meeting. It seemed like there was better individual participation this year. THANK YOU. Special recognition to Mark and Tina Willis who sold $200 worth of tickets and Dick Burrows who sold $100 worth of tickets. Thanks to all who made efforts to sell tickets and who participated in the Car show, and the Green Lake sportsman s rummage sale. Thank you also goes out to Dutch s Trading Post who faithfully sold tickets and displayed the boat along with Tuffy s Outpost. We also thank Tim Nehls, owner of Fish Tails Bait and Liquor in Fox Lake for Displaying the boat and selling over $700 for us. We did better this year than last year and that was our goal. Neil Seibel reported from the sportsmen s alliance and gave a recap of the the new trolling rules. Greg Stubbe also told us about his recent trip to Lake of the Woods. His group of 5 boats boated 45 muskies on a weather beaten trip to Lake of the Woods. Bob Haase, and Dick Burrows gave an interesting presentation on our Wild Rose Hatchery project. They participated in transferring fish that grew to inches this past year in our habitat enhanced rearing ponds to various brood stock lakes, the Bay of Green Bay and the Lake Winnebago System. We also had a briefing on the Sept Outing planned for the 3-Lakes Chain. The Club also welcomed a new member to the Club, Mathew Matuszewski of Fond du Lac. Welcome aboard Mathew. FISH REPORT BY HARLAN HOPP 7/22 Ron Lange 38 Birch Lake Top Raider 7/25 Greg Stubbe 47 Lake of the Woods Double 10 Bucktail 7/26 Greg Stubbe 45 ½ Lake of the Woods Double 10 Bucktail 7/26 Greg Stubbe 38 Lake of the Woods Double 10 Bucktail 7/27 Greg Stubbe 43 ½ Lake of the Woods Double 8 Bucktail 7/29 Chuck Brod 50 ¼ Bay of Green Bay Spanky 7/29 Chuck Brod 44 Bay of Green Bay Spanky 7/30 Greg Stubbe 43 ½ Lake of the Woods Double 10 Bucktail 7/30 Bob Larsen 51 ½ Lake Vermillion Twinky by Eric Larsen 7/31 Greg Stubbe 38 Lake of the Woods Double 10 Bucktail

6 September /06 Scott Klapperich 42 ½ Lake of the Woods Double 10 Bucktail (black) 8/18 Jim Born 39 Lake Waubicon Slither 8/21 Tom Francis 39 Yellow Birch Hard Head (Outing) 8/23 Amy Langlitz 39 ¼ Duck Lake Top Raider (Outing) Tom Francis wins the outing fish trophy. Remember, this contest is called First Musky of the Outing Silver Cup Traveling Trophy This trophy travels and be awarded at the next outing. Veteran Fishing Outing September will be the Club outing at Three Lakes. This Important Club outing will be coupled with a musky fishing trip to thank our military veterans. The veteran outing is sponsored by Salute the Troops, the Navy Club - Ship 75, Marian University, and the Fond du Lac Musky Club. So far, six Club members have volunteered their time and boats to be guides for 12 veterans. All Club members are invited to join in the outing with lunch on Saturday and an outdoor fish dinner and campfire Saturday night with the veterans. The fish are being provided by Dave and Mary LaPine with a little help from Richard. Contact Scott Klapperich ( ) or Richard Feustel ( ) for more details. Please register with one of us on or before Sept. 9. We are in need of one more members and their boat to take a veteran on the water. If you would like to join this outing and add a veteran fisherman to your boat, please contact Scott or Richard ASAP. Another Vet would like to go and the additional boat and club member would be helpful. THE PRIMSPIN INVITATIONAL Pat Primising has asked us to put out an invite to participate in a fishing expedition named after his father s spinning lures starting at 6:30 am Monday September 7 on Winneconne. Lunch will be at the Fin n Feather at 11:30 with a Debriefing at 4:30. Each participant will give $10 to the angler catching the longest musky. If no muskies are caught each participant will give $5.00 to the angler with the longest northern pike. Ladies and Gentlemen interested in joining this expedition, please contact Pat Primising ( ) to let him know you are coming. Pat is expecting 3 or 4 boats at this time.

7 July 2015 At the June 3 rd meeting we had a detailed briefing for the June 21 st outing with maps and commentary from anglers that have fished Lac Vieux Desert. The next meeting is Wednesday August 5 7:00 pm at the American Legion Post. Jerry LaPine will preside at the meeting to fill in for Scott Klapperich and Dave Mace who will both be in Canada on a Musky Retreat. Ron Lange and Charlie LaPine should both be present at the meeting. Please bring in your Boat Raffle money and unused tickets at this time. Now is the time for us to press hard to try and do some fund raising. We will have the boat in our possession again on 7/23-8/4. Let s take advantage of this time wisely and SELL SOME TICKETS! The Fox Lake Car Show on Saturday July 25 th will be a day we can have the boat in front of a lot of people. If you can help on that day call Dave Mace Any other bright ideas for promoting the boat tickets call Dave or Scott or As you will recall, we have been working with the Wild Rose Hatchery with their musky rearing ponds habitat. We have been informed that they will be harvesting the musky stock on July 28 th and 29 th for introduction into lakes. The supervisor welcomes and invites us to assist on those days with the pittagging and distribution into designated brood stock lakes. Leftover fish from the brood stock quotas will be going in to the Winnebago System. Jerry says that the fish are about 12 inches long and extremely hungry. They have been honing their ambush skills with the help of our artificial structures in their brood ponds. Please call Jerry Loop ( ) by July 24th to let him know if you can be there and for further details about the project. This should be an interesting time and provide an opportunity to see first hand what our club does for the resource. FISH REPORT by HARLAN HOPP 6/2 BOB KUHR 48 ½ Bay of Green Bay Crane Bait 6/2 HARLAN HOPP 41 Big Sand Perch/w #6 Eagle Claw Hook 6/5 GREG STUBBE 35 Rangeline Pink Bucktail 6/6 GREG STUBBE 37 Little Fork Chartreuse Bucktail 6/6 GREG STUBBE 43 Rangeline Pink Bucktail 6/8 BOB KUHR 36 Pettenwell Flowage Tinsel Tail 6/8 BOB KUHR 44 ¼ Pettenwell Flowage Tinsel Tail 6/12 GREG STUBBE 43 Long Lake Black #8 Bucktail 6/21 LYNN WELLS 48 LacVieuxDesert Homemade 6 firetiger, guest at LacVieuxDesert outing with DANN DENSLOW fish was a hybrid musky

8 July 2015 June Outing Lac Vieux Desert It was another tough outing for the Club in June. Except for a late morning, early afternoon rain shower Saturday, the weather was beautiful. There were 12 people associated with the Musky Club on Lac Vieux Desert, not too bad for our first upnorth outing in a while. Club members had follows but no musky. A half dozen northern pike, a few good size walleye and bass but no members landed any musky. Two non-members caught muskies, 39 and another... The second musky was caught by Dann Denslow s friend, Lynn, in Slaughter Bay on Lac Vieux Desert. Interesting story on this catch: Lynn was fishing with his son s rod this Father s Day weekend. Lynn s son had passed away about 7 years ago. Dann and Lynn had not caught any musky all weekend. It was Father s Day so Dann encouraged Lynn to use the lure his son had made for him many years ago. It was Father s Day after all and nothing seemed to be working anyway. It was a rugged lure, a plug with a couple of hooks. On Lynn s second cast, while bringing the lure out of the water, a musky took it and ran. We are told it was quite a fight but in the end, Lynn landed a 48 tiger musky on his son s pole using his son s homemade lure. Lynn may not have won the Cup but WOW, that is a fishing memory! The coveted First Musky of the Outing Cup remains unclaimed. July Outing Lake Winneconne and Poygan Plan on getting out locally in July. We have proven that traveling hours to fish the trophy lakes is no guarantee of fish. In July, the Musky Club will have an outing on Lake Winneconne. We will rendezvous Saturday, July 18 th for 11:30 lunch at Fin n Feather. You can put your boat in at Fin n Feather as well. The outing will officially run July th for the elusive First Musky of the Outing Cup. There is no need to register in advance. If you catch a legal musky in this July window on Lake Winneconne or Poygan, please call or text Richard Feustel at with the details of your catch. If possible, send a picture to Richard and don t forget to register with Harlan too. Remember to notify Harlan Hopp at Rt W Church St Oakfield, WI when you catch and release a musky. We have preprinted postcards for your use and these notifications are used in determining our award winners at our annual banquet in March. A get well wish goes out to Steve Herzberg, a member and co-owner of Mr. Marine with his wife Connie, who broke his leg badly during the Walleye Weekend Tourney. He is underwent surgery On July 1 for his injuries and we wish him a speedy and complete recovery. Eric Larsen informed us about his 11 yr old niece Emily Koehler who is fighting stage 4 thyroid cancer. There is a benefit Give A Hoot for Emily Koehler on August 15 at J J Maloney s Bar in Kaukauna (N1994 Maloney Rd Kaukauna 54130). There will be a Silent Auction with items such as guided walleye and musky trips, including a trip on CAVE RUN by Tony Grant, rods, tackle, prints, and casino packages.

9 July 2015 There will be raffles, prizes, games and Live music by the Appleton School of Rock. This sound like a fun time and an opportunity at the same time to help a little girl and her family. Eric won and then donated a $1000 for Emily at a Gamblers Hockey game by shooting a hockey puck for goal at half time! Eric also states that the Musky action is heating up with the weather on the Winnebago System. He s recommending perch patterns. He just had a client boat a 49 ½ er on Butte des Mortes. Call Eric and book a trip. He still has some openings

10 June 2015 JUNE 3 RD MEETING There will be a regular meeting of the Winnebagoland Musky Club on Wednesday June 3 rd at 7:00 pm at the American Legion Clubhouse in Fond du Lac. We have changed the meeting schedules earlier this year to meet every other month. Brian Blettner will be our guest speaker this month. He is an outdoor hunting and fishing guide from Conover, WI. Brian is a 39 year native to the area and has a Wisconsin / Upper Michigan guide service including all freshwater species plus hunting whitetails, bear, grouse, turkeys, waterfowl and coyotes. He also works at Northern Waters Angling and Archery in Conover. Brian speaking to us is very timely, in that our next outing is at his back door. This should be a good briefing. He is also familiar with the 3-Lakes chain which is where our September outing is being held. We will also be discussing the current University of WI Stevens Point/Musky Alliance musky research project. JUNE 19, 20, & 21 LAC VIEUX DESERT We will open our second 2015 outing at Lac Vieux Desert on Friday June 19 thru Sunday June 21. We have lodging reserved (5 rooms together) at the Hiawatha Motel in Eagle River for our group. $88/night (2+/rm). We can get more rooms. We must RSVP by June 1 to hold the reservation. We will provide a briefing at the June 3 rd meeting. Call or text Richard Feustel ( ) for details, also, his address is richardfeustel@gmail.com. The club outing lunch get-together will begin at 11:30 am on Saturday at the Sunset Resort right on the most Western shore of Lac Vieux Desert West Shore Rd., Land O Lakes, WI ( or ). Sunrise web site is Launching your boat is best done on the public launches instead of Sunset Lodge. They are planning a soup/sandwich/salad bar/desert/beverage special for us. Your cost will be $5.00. They do not serve alcohol. We had our get-together here 10 or twelve years ago. It was very nice! There is docking available for us to boat right up to them. Please sign up at the June 3 rd meeting or contact Richard Feustel at his contact info listed above as soon as possible. Remember our new contest called First Musky of the Outing is alive and well. We have not had our first winner yet so you could be the first. You must record and report the time and size of your fish to be eligible for The First Musky of the Outing Silver Cup Traveling Trophy. The fish must be 34 to count. Please call or text Richard Feustel ( ) ASAP (preferably immediately) to register your catch with the time you caught and released your musky. This trophy will travel and be awarded at the next outing. MAY OUTING AT FOX AND LITTLE GREEN LAKE The last outing on May 9 th and 10 th at Fox Lake and Little Green Lake was well attended by our club and not so well attended by the fish. A cold front seemed to shut down the musky bite and no muskies were registered for the outing. For a our first musky club outing, this could be considered a rousing success based on attendance, not by muskies caught though. We had 30 people at the luncheon and about that many fishing. You would have thought with that many people we should have landed a musky not this time. There were stories of many follows and ones that got away but no muskies to claim the coveted

11 June 2015 First Musky of the Outing trophy. A number of people landed nice northern pike, walleyes, and bass so fish were caught. A 38 pike and a 26 walleye were the biggest and both caught on Fox Lake. Both lakes reported catching fish and seeing musky. There is a feature article in the newest Musky Hunter Magazine on fishing the Bay of Green Bay authored by our club member and guide Eric Larsen. Check it out. Harlan Hopp has only one fish to report this month; his own a 38 Musky caught on Fox Lake, May 4th on a #3 Vibrax spinner. Remember to register your muskies with Harlan with our preprinted postcards. This registration of fish is the basis for the awards we present at our annual banquet every March. If you don t have a card, send your own letter to Harlan Hopp 144 West Church St., Oakfield, WI The minimum information needed is: Your name, the date of catch, length of fish, lure or bait used, and the body of water. You may register fish as short as 34 per our rules (THIS IS NOT THE STATE LEGAL SIZE). DON T KEEP IT!!! Of course, every musky you catch should be CATCH/PHOTO/RELEASE. Remember to help sell Raffle Boat Tickets. We need full club participation with this project.

12 May 2015 NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE There is NOT a meeting on the first Wednesday of May. The next regular meeting of the Club will be Wednesday June 3 at the American Legion Clubhouse at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:15. OUTING # The first outing of the year is on Saturday and Sunday May 9 th and 10 th. We will be fishing on Little Green Lake and Fox Lake, you choose. We will have lunch and social time at Hayes Resort on Fox Lake at noon on Saturday. Hayes Resort s address is W10551 Blackhawk Trail, Fox Lake, WI 53933, Ph # If coming from the East drive West on Hwy 68 out of Waupun, to County F, Turn Rt. on County F, and go West to Parish Rd, Turn South (L) on Parish Rd., to Blackhawk Trail, Turn Left (East) on Blackhawk Trail and drive a short distance to the resort. If you want a convenient launch site, the County Park is a good facility. merely go West off of Parish Rd. and find the Park a short distance West of Parish Rd. PLEASE CALL, TEXT OR RICHARD FEUSTEL IF YOU PLAN ON FISHING AND BEING WITH US FOR LUNCH BY MAY 4 TH. His contact info is at the bottom of this letter. For those driving from Little Green Lake, take Hwy 44 South to County S., go East on County S. to County A. Go South on County A, to County F, travel East on County F., to Parish Rd., go S. on Parish Rd. to Blackhawk Trail, Turn Left to the Hayes Resort or Right to the County Park launch site. A Special Note: We are starting a contest called First Fish Contest on each outing. You must record and report the time and size of your fish to be eligible for The First Musky of the Outing Silver Cup Traveling Trophy to be eligible. The fish must be legal 34 to count. Please call or text Richard Feustel ( ) ASAP to register your catch and the time you caught and released your catch. This trophy will be awarded again in June at the Lac Vieux Desert outing. You still need to register your fish with Harlan for the Club fish report. That outing is scheduled for June 19, 20, and 21. Boat Raffle Fund Raiser Many of you have picked up tickets to sell individually. Good luck in selling as many as you can. We can get you more. This is so important to the survival of the Club and giving us funds to provide help in our projects. We have done so many great things for the community and the resource in the past and it would be nice for us to continue. We had success taking the Boat to the Green Lake Sportsman s Rummage Sale. Special thanks to Steve Critchley, Scott Klapperich, Richard Feustal, Dann Denslow, Tom LaPine, Jerry LaPine, and Dick Denslow the volunteers who helped sell tickets. We have also had help already this year from Dutch s, Tuffy s, and Fish Tails Bait Shop in Fox Lake, displaying the boat for us. Here is the schedule for when we have the boat again; May 22-June 9; July 23 to August 4. We Plan on being at the Fox Lake Car Show on July 25 th with the boat. Think about volunteering for this event. It s fun being at these car shows. The Alliance of Musky Clubs has asked our Club to meet a challenge of providing $300 towards a major musky research project being completed by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The project has a total cost of $17,000 and entails tagging and implanting transmitters in young, planted, muskies when they are first introduced into lakes. The project will then be able to study what happens to these fish as

13 May 2015 they grow older. The Clayton Becker Foundation has pledged $5000 towards the project, The University has pledged $5000, and the Alliance has pledged $3000. That s where we come in, pledging $300 as an individual club to pick up the shortfall. This sounds like a good opportunity for us to participate in a worthwhile project. The NEXT OUTING is June 19, 20, and 21 at Lac Vieux Desert. We have lodging reserved (5 rooms together) at the Hiawatha Motel in Eagle River for our group. $88/night (2+/rm). We must RSVP by June 1 to hold the reservation. We will provide a briefing at the June 3 rd meeting. Call or text Richard Feustel ( ) for details, also, his address is richardfeustel@gmail.com.