April Edition Of Hawg Wash Official Newsletter of the Quad County Hawg Hunters

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1 April Edition Of Hawg Wash Official Newsletter of the Quad County Hawg Hunters April 14 Meeting This month s meeting will start at 7:30 and take place at the Plano American Legion 510 E. Dearborn St. in Plano, IL. April Meeting Agenda We will be discussing our results of the Fishing Flea Market. We will also discuss what we will be putting money towards DNR Fisheries this year. We will also have a presentation going over the interesting topics of the Muskies Inc. 50 th Anniversary Symposium that will be given by Duane Landmeier with the help of Dana Smith and Richard Clark. We will first talk about the history of Muskies Inc. Then we will go over some interesting items that biologists talked about at the Symposium. Many of the topics we thought that a lot of our club members could use in an upcoming trip or on a fishing excursion. We will also have 3 Illinois Outdoors News

subscriptions to give away that were donated to the club for placing ads in their magazine. Dick Cole Memorial Breakfast Results Our breakfast was a success again!

2 subscriptions to give away that were donated to the club for placing ads in their magazine. Dick Cole Memorial Breakfast Results Our breakfast was a success again! Thanks for all of the help from everyone that worked the breakfast. Everything went smooth. At one point though we had so many people that we could not keep up on the food and actually had to get more tables out for people to sit down. That is a problem that is great because we are making profits. Pretty busy at the Dick Cole Memorial Breakfast

3 Club Bumper Stickers Available We now have really nice stickers available for $10 a piece. I will have them at our next meeting. If you cannot make a meeting and would like one just send me a check made out to Quad County Hawg Hunters. (Duane) dlandmeier@frontier.com let me know and I will mail one to you. June 11 Club Outing Shabbona We will be having our club outing at Shabbona on June 11 this year. We will be fishing from 6 A.M. until 12 P.M. Then we will have a lunch at one of the shelters most likely the Somonauk Point one. Bring your own beverage. I am going to invite several chapters to see if we get a better showing this year. Kids Fishing Day June 18 th Maple Lane Farm is the date of the kids fishing day this year. It is a beautiful place to have this event. If you have nieces, kids or grandkids this is just a great time. It is also swimming, petting zoo and many other fun kids surprises.stay tuned for upcoming details. Awards Meeting Recap At our March meeting we had our annual awards banquet. Many people attended. We gave out some nice plaques and had some great raffles. A good time was had by all.

the largest muskie of the year for 2015 from Green Bay

4 John Sackmann receives the legendary Quad County Hawg Hunters travelling trophy for the year for catching the largest muskie of the year for 2015 from Green Bay a Rick Clark 1 st Place Men`s Release Division 2015

5 Duane Landmeier 1 st Place Men`s Masters Release Division Aaron Eberly 1 st Place Junior`s Release Division 2015

6 Rodney Eberly 1 st Place Illinois Release Division 2015.

7 IMA REPORT The winter, quarterly meeting was held Feb., 28th at Bass Pro Shop in Bolingbrook. A letter of thanks from Denny Sands of the Shabbona Sportsman Club thanking the IMA and member clubs for helping repair the retention fencing below the dam was introduced. Quad County contributed $500 to this project. DNR has finalized its wish list for this year. The total amount now including 5 trap nets is $10,555. In order of priority they are seeking the 2nd trailer to haul fish ($4,000), PIT tags and guns for 3 biologists ($4,055) and the trap nets ($2,500). The state cannot fund these projects. As of this writing, other IL muskie clubs have pledged $2,750. FRV, the largest club in IL, has budgeted $3,500 towards 2016 projects. This is in addition to $5,000 for stocking. FRV's Board is considering the amount to be contributed toward these DNR projects. DNR has also requested help in upgrading its booth at sport shows. Locally, it exhibits at the Chicago Muskie Expo, the Schaumburg and Tinley Park fishing shows. Dan Lamkin, FRV's Show Director has volunteered to help redesign their booth. Creel Survey - The 2015 muskie creel survey shows 601 fish were registered. The benefits to the IL muskie program of reporting every muskie caught regardless of size are substantial in helping the biologists plan and manage our fishery. Muskie fishing in IL has never been better because of the emphasis DNR has been giving to the muskie program. Want more and better muskie in IL? Report your catches. This is in addition to reporting to the MI Lunge Log were your report of 30"+ fish contributes to this vast storehouse of individual lake statistics that we each can use every day. You can report to the DNR at ifishillinois.org or by filling out and mailing in a green card. 50 th Anniversary Muskies Inc. Symposium

8 The Minneapolis Sheraton West near Minnetonka was the site of the 50 th Anniversary Muskies In. Symposium a few weeks back. Richard Clark, Dana Smith and Duane Landmeier represented our club well at the well run event. Hats off to the north Metro and Twin Cities chapters of Muskies Inc. for running the event. There were 40 different fisheries biologist speakers to listen to speak from Sunday to Tuesday. Biologists from all over the U.S. and Canada were there to listen to about your favorite areas etc. This was such useful information on places that you fish normally and new placed to go try. What better person to ask questions about a place than a fisheries biologist that had nothing to hide. The Banquet was on Saturday night with all kinds of raffles. Dana Smith actually won a couple of whiskey musky decanters and a print. The next one will be in 10 or maybe 5 years. If any of you can attend that one it would be highly recommended. This was such a great time meeting people that you would not otherwise see or seeing old friends that you do not see as often as you would like. New Member Please welcome Dennis Miller of Urbana, Illinois to our club cmmiller53@hotmail.com

9 Dana Smith with former retired chief fisheries biologist Steve Pallo of the Illinois Division of Fisheries. Rick Clark, Duane Landmeier and Dana Smith at the Muskies Inc. 50 th Anniversary Symposium in Minneapolis, MN.

Pretty cool visiting with all of these gentlemen. Back row left to right Jay Zahn past president of Muskies Inc. also a member of Title town Green Bay Chapter Muskies Inc.

10 Pretty cool visiting with all of these gentlemen. Back row left to right Jay Zahn past president of Muskies Inc. also a member of Title town Green Bay Chapter Muskies Inc., Duane Landmeier President Quad County, Jim Beaty former treasurer of Muskies Inc. also a member of Shawnee Chapter of Muskies Inc., Dana Smith Regional Vice President Quad County and Release Chairman Quad County, Biologist name not sure, Front row left to right Kevin Richards former editor of Muskies Inc. magazine, Peter Levick President of Muskies Canada, Gregg Wells former president of Muskies Inc. also a member of Title town Chapter of Muskies Inc. Green Bay, WI.

Fishing Flea Market Results This year our club is tried a different type of fundraiser. It was a fishing flea market. It turned out to be one of our best fundraisers in years. We made over $2000

11 Fishing Flea Market Results This year our club is tried a different type of fundraiser. It was a fishing flea market. It turned out to be one of our best fundraisers in years. We made over $ Everyone that attended had a great time and made some money and maybe spent a little. We will be doing this again next year for sure. Thanks to everyone that attended and helped out. Also a big thank you goes out to Duane Landmeier for all of the hard work that he did to get the whole event planned out and set up. Carl Buehrer with his first muskie of A 40 Lake Kinkaid fish caught with Mark Johnson in March.

12 Men s Masters Release Division Angler Releases Points Nick Weesies Carl Buehrer Duane Landmeier Illinois Release Division Nick Weesies Carl Buehrer Duane Landmeier Club Big Fish so far 2016 Carl Buehrer 40 Kinkaid Lake, IL. Duane Landmeier 40 Prairie Lake, IL. Illinois Big Fish so far 2016 Carl Buehrer 40 Kinkaid Lake, IL. Duane Landmeier 40 Prairie Lake, IL. Fish need to be reported to Dana Smith or Muskies Inc. online within 30 days of day caught. This is an MI rule that will be enforced by MI.

13 Release Chairman 2016 Send all of your release entries to: Dana Smith 2526 Caliendo Circle Montgomery, IL Or by to: Muskie Creel Survey Cards Don't forget to fill these out for all muskies that are caught in Illinois. These cards provide useful information to the DNR. Cards can Also be filled out online At: Upcoming Events April 14 Regular Meeting May 12 Regular Meeting June 9 Regular Meeting Old Spinning Reels Rich Sharpenter a member of our club is looking for old spinning reels that were made before If any of you have any that you would like to part with please give Rich a call Thanks

14 Duane with a 40 skinny male muskie on Prairie Lake near Springfield, IL. March 18. Caught trolling a baby depth raider. Members that need to renew Renewal Date Lastname Firstname Savitski Mike Fox Robert J Fox Dana Fox Natalie Fox Ashley Cudzewicz Jonathan Asprooth Chad Short James A Ruhl Chris Ruhl Lori Ruhl Hailey Heiden Mandy Heiden Andrew Heiden Payton Driscoll Larry Heiden Bill R

15 2016 Club Officers President Vice President Duane Landmeier Mike Savitski 2 nd Vice President Victor Fox Treasurer Mark E. Johnson Regional V. President Dana Smith Secretary Release Chairman Outings Chairman Jim Frohlich Dana Smith Jim Frohlich Carl Buehrer Ken Crago Bill Heiden Sr. Bert Lederer Gary Ries Thomas Griffin Executive Board

16 Please cater to our fine sponsors. Shabbona`s Lakeside Bait and Tackle Clint and Heather Sands

17 For all your painting needs please call: Club Member Bert Lederer Professional Painter

18 Other Fish Illinois River Sauger March 5 Duane Landmeier and Rodney Eberly

Shawnee Muskie Hunters

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