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Text Box: Catch - Photo - Release Text Box: Shawnee Muskie Hunters Member Incentive Program The BOD will have final say and all decisions will be by a majority vote. You must be a current member in good standing of Chapter #28 at the time of the drawing. This is an annual contest and it will run from awards banquet to awards banquet. Tickets will be drawn and prizes will be awarded for this year’s contest at the March 2010 awards banquet. Attending any club meeting (except BOD meetings) or event will qualify you to receive one ticket in the drawing. Examples of qualifying events for this year include: Pomme Challunge, Kinkaid Lake Cleanup, Spring Guide for a Day, Kid’s Day, Chapter Challunge, Kaskaskia River Outing, Prairie Lake Outing, Fall Guide for a Day, Take a Veteran Fishing Day, Club Christmas Party, Collinsville Show (2010), St Louis Show (2010) and Awards Banquet (2010). One ticket will be awarded per event attended. If you volunteer to work an event, cooking, guiding or manning a sport show booth for example, you will receive a bonus ticket for the activity. Paid entry into the Lacey Graeff Caraway, Spring Warm Up or Fall Brawl tournaments are each good for one ticket. Entrants into all three tournaments will receive one bonus ticket. A $25 donation earmarked for the Eagle Lake Tiger Muskie stocking project is good for one ticket. Participation in club fundraisers will also be good for tickets. One member incentive program ticket will be awarded for each five Football Frenzy fundraiser tickets sold. Each new member signed up is good for one ticket. Taking a new member (new member = in the club < 1 year) or a junior member fishing is good for one ticket. Prizes will be determined prior to the 2010 awards banquet. Only one prize per member. Ticket for Prize Number 1 will be drawn first, Prize Number 2 second and Prize Number 3 third. Larry Owens will do the record keeping for the contest. The coordinator for each individual event will make a list of the volunteers and attendees and send it to him. Send other ticket requests (donation, signing up new member, taking a new/junior member fishing etc.) to Larry and he will get you counted and entered. The number of tickets awarded will be posted to the club web page from time to time so you can check in and make sure you have been given credit for all of your qualifying activities. To check how you are doing in the contest, click HERE. Good Luck Text Box: Club News and Announcements

Eagle Lake Outing, New Athens Strip Mine

16 July, 2011

On 16 July the Shawnee Muskie Hunters met at the Peabody River State Fish and Wildlife area near New Athens IL for a friendly get-together.  Among the activities planned were a cookout, casting competition and lure demo.  Ray and Katie Wheelock did an exceptional job cooking up Steak and Chicken Kabobs After everyone got their fill, Ray distributed a set of rules and everyone headed over to a clearing to participate in a casting contest. All who participated had a great time.  Jim Beaty came out as the winner of the casting competition and retains bragging rights until next year when Ray has promised to knock him off his pedestal.   

Gil Hamm Chapter Challenge, Lake of the Woods Ontario

19 - 26 Aug, 2011

The Shawnee Muskie Hunters sent a  team of 12 anglers to Lake of the Woods Ontario this year to complete in the 2011 Gil Hamm Chapter Challenge sponsored by Muskies Inc.   Participants this year were jerry and Cheryl Ford, Steve Krakowiecki, Mike Jacob, Jim Ashton, Steve Burian, Jim Beaty, Dave Norman, Walt Krause, Manuel Santa Cruz and Ken “Snagger”  Ryder.

Wednesday was the first day of the challenge but we could not get on the water. We woke up to 40+ mph winds with 5 to 6 foot rollers in front of the resort we were staying. The first boat left the dock at 5:45 and started to leave the dock area when they hit the rough seas. They took two waves over the bow and turned around to come back to the dock. They were soaked. We decided to stay put for the day and about every hour we would check the boats to find boats broken loose and bumpers missing.

Overall, we caught 14 muskies with two of those being 49 ˝ inches. Our team #1 caught the only fish during the tournament. Ken Ryder caught a 30 and 35 on a lure (sizzler) he picked up going to the challenge. It was not in any package and we did not know the name of it at the time. He started using it in the afternoon on Thursday and on the 3rd cast caught the first muskie. He had 3 more follows and then used it Friday morning. At noon on Friday he had caught 2 muskies had 8 follows, lost a big fish and caught some nice pike on it. He had to take time to repair it many times.

Manuel was the hot boat early by boating 5 muskies with two 46 inchers. Jerry Ford caught a 49 ˝ late Sunday evening and John Wright caught a 49 ˝ late Friday before we left on Saturday.

The lures that caught fish were a big surprise. Only one fish was caught on a bucktail. Every thing else was caught on Pearson’s Grinder, Schoolin Shads, Top Raiders, Phantoms, Sizzlers and Grim Reapers. Black /orange was the prominent colors combination.

Text Box: Eagle Lake Stocking Project On November 8th, several club members met at Eagle Lake @ 6:30PM (part of the Peabody River State Fish and Wildlife Area near New Athens Illinois) to assist in the stocking of 200 Tiger Muskies funded by our chapter. Our club has sponsored the stocking of Tigers into this body of water every other year for the last 5 years (for a total of three separate stocking events). The Tigers stocked came from the Oswald Fish Hatchery, Ellendale, MN. All fish were hatched this spring and averaged between 10 and 14 inches long. All fish appeared to be extremely healthy and early reports are there were no signs of loss. Thanks go out to the following club members who supported the event: Jim Beaty, Manual Santa Cruz, Ken Ryder, Steve Burien, John Wright, Lenny Goldsmith and Guest, Jerry and Cheryl Ford, Renee and Gracie Johnson, Shannon and Maggie Beaty-Dingus, and Jim Ashton. The weather conditions were a little wet as we had to deal with a steady downpour but everyone remarked how interesting it was to participate. The Fisheries employee scooped the muskies from their tank truck and handed the nets to our members who immediately released them at the boat dock. Everyone who showed up had the chance to place fish in the lake.