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1 OCTOBER 21 OFFICERS President Tom Lydon Cell (63) Vice President Frank Seehoffer (815) Treasurer Andy Kaminsky Fund RaisingAngie Frazier The next next meeting meeting is is The Sunday Sunday OCTOBER JANUARY 17,17 21 Secretary / Newsletter Mary Kaminsky fossil23@aol.com Club Mailing Address Club meetings are held the third Sunday of each month (except for December) at the Shadow Lakes Amenity Center. Meetings begin at 9 :AM and free coffee is provided. Sportsman Fishing Club Shadow Lakes II 23 Fossil Cove Lane Wilmington, IL IDNR - Ed Matykiewicz TREASURER REPORT by Andy Kaminsky Andy gave the treasurer report. To date we stand at beginning balance $ Income of $35.. Expenses at $ leaving a balance of $ in addition $12,5.5 from the Association. NOVEMBER 21ST BRUNCH INVITATION Sunday, November 21st will be our last business meeting of 21. We will be serving a breakfast brunch to thank the Fishing Club members and volunteers for all of their efforts and support this year. Bring your spouse and kids or grandkids. We will have a special year-end raffle with lots of prizes for all ages. So please join us. 211 NEW OFFICER ELECTION AND MESSAGE: The 21 Officer slate was re-elected for 211, with Ed Matykiewicz and Andy Kaminsky swapping the Treasurer and the DNR roles. Many thanks to Ed for fulfilling the Treasurer s job for the past seven years. Myself and all of the officers want to thank everyone for their support in 21 and for a great year of activities. We are looking forward to another year of fun and fishing in 211. Join us!

2 Winter meetings: Presentations and demonstrations! This coming winter, we will return to some of the meeting activities that we began with last year. We are working on getting guest speakers on a variety of topics, including taxidermy (replicas) and local guides. We also plan to cover ice fishing, terminal tackle (bobbers, weights and hooks) and the in-depth use of certain lures and types of fishing, such a drop-shotting, wacky worming and any other requested topics that our members may suggest at the November meeting. So let us know what you want to learn about this winter. WHY A CARP DERBY? Our Carp Derby last month was a lot of fun and ended up with some great catches. You can see some of the pictures elsewhere in this issue. Several folks asked me why the club sponsored a Carp Derby. That s a fair question. Here are some of my reasons for trying out this event. - This past year in our underwater video, we saw hundreds of these 2 to 3 pound torpedoes swimming all over our Lakes. - In talking to a lot of anglers about their catches, I would periodically hear about an individual accidentally catching a large Carp and how much they enjoyed the great fight. - Several of our anglers fish specifically for carp and told me about some great battles. Two of our Fish of the Month winners this summer were large Carp caught by anglers from Lighthouse Cove. - I also recalled that many, many years ago, I fished in a Carp derby on the Chicago River. It was a blast with carp being caught as big as 5 to 6 pounds. Carp are a highly sought after fish all over Europe. Many anglers spend much of their lives trying to catch a fish over 2 pounds. Most Musky anglers fish a lifetime to catch one or two fish that big. So we decided to try a Carp Derby. We studied all of the latest Carp fishing techniques and chummed an area for seven days. Ask anyone who caught a fish that day and they will tell you what a battle they had. Netting a 3 pound fish was super, even though it tore up my net and bent the frame. Additionally this past week, a report was made of a dead Carp in our Lakes that was at least four foot long and weighed in at about 8 or 9 pounds. I hope that this fish met its natural end. But imagine hooking into something that big. We feel that our anglers have an untapped resource in our Carp fishery, and we feel that we should explore every fishing opportunity offered in our waters. Carp fishing will give us some great fun and real challenges. The fish are already here in our lakes and cost us nothing additional to enjoy. Our DNR representative said that we should return these Carp to the waters. He said they do not reproduce and the larger fish do not damage our fishery. So Catch and Release these monsters for some added angling fun. At our October 17th meeting, we will review the latest carp techniques and equipment and include much of this information in an upcoming newsletter.

3 Here are the pictures of the winners and the delicious food that was served at the Carp Derby last month. Apple Strudel Brats/Sauerkraut Frank Seehoffer Carp King for 21 Lisa Tullos Carp Queen for 21 Madison Tullos Carp Princess for 21 Pretzels

4 Peter Pappas gets his Albino Catfish! Article for the October 21 issue of The Shadow Lakes Sportsman Fishing Club newsletter: Determined junior angler catches his ALBINO CAT For the last few weeks Peter Pappas, 12 years old, (above left) told everyone that he was going to catch one of Shadow Lakes legendary ALBINO CATFISH. Then on Saturday evening October 2nd after dark many folks heard Peter yelling all over Third Shadow Lake to get a net. He caught that ALBINO CAT, using a bait casting outfit with shrimp for bait on 2 pound test and no weights or bobber. After a little help Peter brought in the Albino that was about 26 inches and weighed about 9 pounds. See the picture above. This fish leads our Fish of the Month entries for October. Congratulations to Peter. See what a little angling persistence can do.

5 GUEST AUTHOR COLUMN: The following column on Red-ear fishing at Shadow Lakes was written by a new Club member, Mark Tullos, who joined us, along with his family for the Carp Derby. In talking to Mark, he has graciously offered to help the Club with our video efforts this coming year and also offered to write fishing articles from time to time. Some of his previous written efforts were published in Fishing Pubs around the Midwest. I felt that offering members the opportunity to share some of their fishing experience in articles could be fun this year. So any of you frustrated authors please feel free to submit articles to Mary Kaminsky or me at the addresses on the front page of this newsletter or drop them off at the meetings or the office. Redear Wrangling at Shadow Lakes By: Jon Mark Tullos Fishing for our favorite species such as bass or walleye this past summer has been challenging at best due to the hot weather and intense sun. With the clear water on Big Shadow and many of the back water lakes, the fish spooked easily and spent the daylight hours hidden in weeds or in deep water. Anglers had to adjust their approach and target fish in heavy weeds or wait until dark to get bit. But one fish seemed to be available fairly consistently, the redear sunfish. Shadow Lakes has a great population of these shell crackers as their also known. The Sportsman Fishing Club has stocked them on a fairly regular basis providing a rich fishery. Using ultra light tackle these fish put on a fight and will rival even bass with their battle. They like open water near or on the bottom in the ten to twelve foot range. I start out using a simple rig consisting of a red colored # 4 bait holder hook, two non-lead BB size split shots and a rocket bobber. I place the first split shot about 12 to 14 inches above the hook and the other 12 inches above that. The evenly spaced split shots keep the line from tangling during the cast. Also they provide just enough weight to allow the rocket bobber to stand straight up in the water. A small sized rocket bobber is ideal for this application. They allow you to cast a fairly light rig quite a distance. Using 4 to 6lbs test mono in clear or green has been my choice. I cast the rig to likely spots just of the shore line where the bottom of the lake starts to flatten out. The bigger fish seem to hold in this pocket where the sloping shore meets the flat bottom. At times I will remove the bobber and drift the rig along this pocket touching bottom and then raising the rod slightly and then dropping it back down. The key to my success has to be the bait. Trout worms seem to be the ideal meal for this fish and when they hit you can go through a lot of them. I like to hook them in an S shaped pattern with just the tail dangling off the barb. Shell crackers like to engulf the whole worm and using this bait hooking technique provides the opportunity to catch several on one worm. At times I will bend down the hook s barb to allow for easier and faster release. I have found that I catch just as many with or without the barb.

6 The redear at Shadow Lakes reach good size and I have caught several that pushed close to a pound. They make great table fare served whole or filleted. Like all sunfish, served whole they have many small bones and it s important to dine cautiously on them. It s this reason many anglers chose to fillet them. Either way there is nothing like the taste of these fresh water fish deep fried and served with slaw and spaghetti. The Harvest Moon Is the moon at or about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox. The harvest moon is often mistaken for the modern day hunter's moon. Appearance All full moons rise around the time of sunset. In general the moon rises about 5 minutes later each day. As it moves in orbit around Earth, the Harvest Moon and Hunter's Moon are special because, around the time of these half moons, the time difference between moonrise on successive evenings is shorter than usual. This means that the moon rises approximately 3 minutes later from one night to the next, as seen from about 4 degrees N. or S. latitude. Thus, there is no long period of darkness between sunset and moonrise around the time following these full moons. In times past this feature of these autumn moons was said to help farmers working to bring in their crops (or, in the case of the Hunter's Moon, hunters tracking their prey). They could continue being productive by moonlight even after the sun had set. Hence the name Harvest Moon. The reason for the shorter-than-usual rising time between successive moonrises around the time of the Harvest and Hunter's Moon is that the ecliptic the plane of Earth's orbit around the sun makes a narrow angle with respect to the horizon in the evening in autumn. Times of appearance The harvest moon comes soon before or soon after the autumnal equinox. It is simply the full moon closest to that equinox. About once every four years it occurs in October (in the northern hemisphere), depending on the cycles of the moon. Currently, the latest the harvest moon can occur is on October 7. When the night of the harvest moon coincides with the night of the equinox, it is called a "Super Harvest Moon." In 21 in the contiguous United States, the harvest moon happens in the early morning hours of Sept 23, only 5 1/2 hours after the autumnal equinox, creating the first Super Harvest Moon since 1991 Often, the harvest moon seems to be bigger or brighter or more colorful than other full moons. The warm color of the moon shortly after it rises is caused by light from the moon passing through a greater amount of atmospheric particles than when the moon is overhead. The atmosphere scatters the bluish component of moonlight (which is really reflected white light from the sun), but allows the reddish component of the light to travel a straighter path to one's eyes. Hence all celestial bodies look reddish when they are low in the sky. The apparent larger size is because the brain perceives a low-hanging moon to be larger than one that's high in the sky. This is known as a moon illusion and it can be seen with any full moon.

7 It can also be seen with constellations; in other words, a constellation viewed low in the sky will appear bigger than when it is high in the sky. Other names The Harvest Moon is also known as the Wine Moon, the Singing Moon and the Elk Call Moon. In American myth and folklore the full moon of each month is given a name. There are many variations, but the following list gives the most widely known names in the modern US: January Wolf moon[ Hunger moon, Old moon February Snow moon Ice moon March Worm moon Sap moon, Sugaring moon, Crow moon, Storm moon April Pink moon, Egg moon, Grass moon, Rain moon, Growing moon, Wind Moon May Flower moon, Planting moon, Milk moon, Hare moon June Strawberry moon, Rose moon, Honey moon, Mead moon July Buck moon Thunder moon, Deer moon, Hay moon August Sturgeon moon Corn moon, Fruit moon, Barley moon September Harvest moon Gypsy Moon October Hunter's moon November Beaver moon, Frosty moon, Snow moon December Cold moon, Long Night moon, Winter moon The third full moon in a season with four full moons is called a blue moon, as described in the Maine Farmers' Almanac. Until recently it was commonly misunderstood that the second full moon in a month was the blue moon. However, it was recently discovered by Sky & Telescope magazine and reported on NPR that the interpretation of a blue moon as the second full moon of the month was erroneously reported in an issue of Sky & Telescope dating back to 1946 and then perpetuated by other media. In modern usage, when a second full moon occurs during any calendar month, it is called a Blue moon In some cultures, individuals whose birthdays fall on or near a harvest moon must provide a feast for the rest of the community. In popular culture "Shine On, Harvest Moon" is the name of a popular early-19s song credited to the married vaudeville team Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. "Harvest Moon", another song, was composed by Neil Young (1992). In film, "Another Harvest Moon" is a sensitive drama about four elderly Americans coping with life in a nursing home (29). "Dancing at the Harvest Moon" was a made-for-tv film a story of first love rekindled, when 46-year-old Maggie McIntyre loses her husband to another woman and returns to The Harvest Moon, the dance hall where she worked in college (22). The Internet Movie Database identifies more than a dozen "Harvest Moon" movies in the genres of horror, drama, romance, and musical. Also, "Harvest Moon" is a seasonal pumpkin flavored variety of wheat beer made by Blue Moon Brewing Company available in Autumn.

IDNR REQUIRES AN ILLINOIS FISHING LICENSE FOR ANYONE AGE 16 AND OVER A TROUT STAMP IS ALSO REQUIRED CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER MUST WEAR

lakes: The Member MUST be present with them or at the Member s lot, or The Member must give them written permission if the Member

The Member may allow his contractor to fish ONLY from his lot, and the Member must be present.

FROM THE PROPERTY OWNERS GUIDE BOOK PAGE 1 #17 TRESPASSING No person is allowed to enter another Member s lot without permission

9 IDNR REQUIRES AN ILLINOIS FISHING LICENSE FOR ANYONE AGE 16 AND OVER A TROUT STAMP IS ALSO REQUIRED CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER MUST WEAR A PFD APPROVED LIFE JACKET / VEST ON ALL BOATS FROM THE BY-LAWS PAGE 15 #2 When a Member invites guests or relatives to fish in our lakes: The Member MUST be present with them or at the Member s lot, or The Member must give them written permission if the Member is not going to be present at HIS lot. The Member may allow his contractor to fish ONLY from his lot, and the Member must be present. Fishing Club recommended fish limits must be followed and the State of Illinois limits must not be exceeded. FROM THE PROPERTY OWNERS GUIDE BOOK PAGE 1 #17 TRESPASSING No person is allowed to enter another Member s lot without permission from the Member. This includes fishing from the other Member s Dock or allowing their children or guests to play or swim from the other Member s beach or dock FISH BASS BLUEGILL CATFISH CRAPPIE MUSKIE TROUT WALLEYE DAILY LIMIT SIZE PLEASE PRACTICE CATCH PHOTO AND RELEASE

10 Shadow Lakes II Association Sportsman Fishing Club 23 Fossil Cove Lane Wilmington, IL Sportsman Fishing Club Membership Application for 211 $35. for Individual or Family Please provide the following information for Club records and newsletter mailing purposes: Date: Name(s): Lot #: Home Address: City: State: Zip: Home Phone: ( ) - Shadow Lakes Phone: ( ) - address (only needed if you wish to receive the club newsletter by ) I Will View Newsletter on Web Site Please Mail Newsletter Membership dues cover the calendar year 21 bring this form to the next meeting or make check payable to the Sportsman Fishing Club and mail or drop off the application and check to: Shadow Lakes Sportsman Fishing Club, 23 Fossil Cove Lane, Wilmington, IL 6481

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Sportsman Fishing Club Enhancing the Environment and Fishing Experience at Shadow Lakes 20 YEARS January 2014 1994-2014 Officers President - Tom Lydon Cell (630) 776-1625 tlydon44@gmail.com Vice President