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What’s Inside

Board - General 2

Save the Date!!

Catch a Trophy Winners

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December Speaker is Dan Koniewicz

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Elgin Women’s

Shelter Donations 5

Members Only

Contest Standings 6

From the Member-

ship Circle 7

Members photos 8-10

Stocking Photos 11

U P C O M I N G

E V E N T S

FRV BOD Meet-

ing Wednesday

December 5th

at Cabela’s

December 12th

club meeting

featuring Dan

Koniewicz and

our annual

canned food

drive!

January 9th

club meeting

featuring Ste-

ve Worrall

For those members that were able to attend the Novem-ber meeting, you were not disappointed in the presenta-tion given by Sean Birmingham. Sean shared those little things that help him get those few extra Muskies in the boat every year. Thank you Sean for your sharing of your knowledge. Also, I just wanted to recognize that Sean joined the FRV membership ranks that night. Welcome aboard. A December newsletter is always a good time to reflect on the some of the accomplishments of an organi-zation. During the past couple of months FRV was in-

volved with two stocking events. The first on October 14th when FRV pur-

chased 440 muskies that were stocked into our very own Channel Lake up on the Chain. The second was FRV supporting the Chicagoland Chapter with a donation of $1,000 that added to their stocking of Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. This donation allowed them to stock an extra 60 fish this year. Over all the stocking of Lake Geneva was approximately 360 fish. These two events will help us all in catching muskies close to home in the near fu-ture. Remember that December is a time of giving back. And keeping with that theme, FRV is asking that you please come to the December meeting is a non-perishable food donation that will be given to the Elgin Battered Wom-en Shelter. The group really counts on our donation during the Holiday sea-son. Thank you Rich Gallagher for making this happen every year. If you were at the November meeting your heard me talk about changing the deliv-ery of the newsletter from a printed format to an emailed document. We will be making this change with the February 2019 newsletter. But, if you still want a hard copy, mailed document we will still send it to you. It is up to you to let us know. A signup sheet for a mailed newsletter will be available at both the December and January meetings. You are new asking why we are doing this. By going to a emailed document we will save about $6,000 a year. That is a whole bunch of baby muskies. During the next month FRV will be finalizing our calendar and programs for 2019. We have plans to ex-pand our youth events locally, increasing / enhancing the fishing contests, partnering with key businesses that support FRV, rolling out an interesting line up of speakers and fun-filled outings. December is the time of year that we reset our Board of Directors. If you are interested in donating some of your time and helping FRV progress in its agenda, please contact me or see me at the next meeting. Lastly to all members have a Merry Christmas and

a Happy New Year. Looking forward to seeing you at the winter shows! Dan Koniewicz

December Issue

FRV NEWS

GENERAL MEETINGS

7:00 PM @ SCHAUMBURG GOLF

CLUB/CHANDLER’S CHOPHOUSE

401 N. Roselle Road in Schaumburg, IL.

(847) 885-9009

BOARD MEETINGS

6:00PM at Cabela’s on Wednesdays the

week before our General club meeting.

All members are welcome to attend.

W W W . F R V M U S K I E . C O M

FRV MUSKIES INC. P A G E 2

2018 BOARD MEMBERS

Frank Lucido - Membership Director 847-559-8300 Joe Erkenswick - Media Director Steve Crook Res. & Stocking Dir. Todd Minor Speaker Director/ IMA Dave Klop PR Director Pete Barber IMA Delegate Dan Lamkin Trade Show Director Hugh Flack Chapter Rep. Tim Crews Merchandise Director Rich Gallagher Newsletter Editor Mark Rue ALD Terry Magnusson ALD Steve Behrends ALD Mike Pierce ALD Mike Mark Youth Director Blake Pawlikowski Webmaster

OFFICERS

President Dan Koniewicz Vice President Rich Gallagher Treasurer Pete Barber Secretary Blake Pawlikowski

[email protected]

P.O. BOX 8066 BARTLETT, IL. 60103 347-433-8577

PETER J. BARBER & Associates, Inc. CPA & Consultants

Family & Estate

Tax Planning & Preparation

Business Accounting & Taxes

(847) 726-7267

FRV

Members

FRV INCENTIVE PROGRAM P A G E 3


Our club thrives on our common interest in musky fishing and our charitable efforts. While our hope is that every-

one participates and supports the club because of the intrinsic value it provides, the Board of Directors has decided

to experiment with two (2) incentive programs to encourage more participation both online and at our events/

meetings. The details of these programs are detailed below. Please reach out if there are questions or suggestions.

The programs will run until it appears they no longer provide impact into the level of participation and we reserve

the right to alter the program as necessary to make it successful.

FRV Online Participation Incentive (monthly) Goal: to increase participation of membership between meetings via our website/forum and to increase attendance at

meetings

Prize: 3-5 baits awarded via raffle at our monthly meetings (subject to change pending the level of participation during a

given month)

Forum participation

1 ticket per 3 “quality” posts. “Quality” will be at the discretion of the Website Director and generally means the post

constructively contributes to the conversation (something more than “Nice fish” on a fishing report, lively discussion/

debate is fine, but tickets will not be awarded for negativity…the point is for engaging in civil and constructive dialog)

3 tickets per fishing report posted, 5 if pictures are included, 8 if video is included. 10 tickets per article that is written

and posted to the website. Write a summary of an outing hosted by FRV , a fishing related story, anything you think peo-

ple would be interested to read that’s applicable to the club and our membership.. Articles should be edited within rea-

son and ready to post, though FRV reserves the right to make minor adjustments to spelling/grammar if necessary

(significant changes will be discussed with the author before posting). Articles will be posted at the discretion of the

Website Director. Please contact the Website Director to confirm your article topic would be considered for the website

and does not duplicate something already being drafted. Please note that you can also post comments to any article/

post on the site (including this one). These will be considered participation and will be awarded tickets similarly to what is

outlined above. Comments outside of the forum currently require an admin approval before they are shown on the web-

site. Please be patient as we review and complete the approval process. Tickets earned will be awarded at the next club

meeting and will be honored only at that meeting. You must be present to win. Anything earned during our off months of

June, July and August will be awarded in September. Please note: this is being announced 8/23/18 and we will retroac-

tively award tickets to anyone with eligible posts 6/1/18 or later. Drawing for participation will be separate from the nor-

mal meeting raffles.

Board members are not eligible to participate.

FRV Volunteering Incentive Program (yearly) FRV event participation;

Tickets will be awarded for actively participating at FRV events.

Meetings – help at the door, selling raffle tickets, assisting Frank at Membership, Hugh at Merch, welcoming new members and

introducing them to people, etc.

Banquet – help set up, help tear down, assist with handing out packets, etc.

Volunteer – show up at any volunteering opportunity and participate, work the booth at a show, help setup/tear down at a

show, guide at a One Hope event, etc.

Entries to the drawing will be awarded based on the participation and relative effort involved. Ensure the board member helping

coordinate the event you’re at reports to the Website Director that you participated in order to ensure your entry to the draw-

ing. Drawing will occur at the Annual Awards and Fundraising Banquet (typically held in March). You do NOT have to be pre-

sent to win this drawing. Board members are not eligible to participate.

SEPTEMBER 12TH SPEAKER P A G E 4


THE FOX RIVER VALLEY CHAPTER PROUDLY PRESENTS

DAN KONIEWICZ WENDNESDAY DECEMBER 12

TH , 2018

AT THE SCHAUMBURG GOLF CLUB

Dan Koniewicz has been musky fishing for over 30 years! Not only is he our current Presi-dent at the FRV Chapter, but he is one of the original FRV members when the FRV club was founded 37 years ago! Through the years, Dan has held virtually every position in our chapter including being a past President, VP, Secretary and Treasurer! Dan has donated much of his free time to this club over the past 37 years as a member! Dan began registering his fish back in 1984 and to date has over 400 muskies registered with MI in the lunge log with 8 fish over 50”! His longest musky is 53” and to say Dan knows a thing or two about catching mus-kies would be an understatement! Dan is going to be talking about fishing in Canada for big muskies, a topic that is near and dear to his heart. He is a great presenter, who has filled in at our meetings when speakers have not shown and he has some great PowerPoint presenta-tions to share with us as well as his knowledge of catching muskies throughout the calendar year! Grab a friend and don’t miss this great year end meeting! We are also conducting our canned food drive for the Elgin Women’s Crisis Center. Bring some canned goods or other non-perishable items to donate to the shelter and we will waive your $5.00 admission fee! Admission is $5.00/person at the door. Our meeting begins at 7:00PM at The Schaumburg Golf Club which is located at 401 N. Roselle Road in Schaumburg, IL.

All meetings are open to the public. Guests are always welcome.

DECEMBER CANNED FOOD DRIVE


P A G E 5

Donations to the Elgin Women’s Shelter Each year at the December club meeting, we run a canned food drive for the Elgin Women’s Shelter. If you come to the December 12th meeting with canned goods or other non-perishable items to donate to the Elgin Women’s Shelter, we will waive the $5.00 ad-mission fee for you! Each year, FRV members and friends donate a HUGE amount of canned goods and other items to the shelter at our December meeting! We drop off these goods to the shelter to

help the women and children who reside at this facility! Please remember to bring your canned goods to the December 12th club meeting for this wonderful cause to those less fortunate. Many of the women residing at this facility have been abused and many of them are single mothers working hard to get their lives back on track. Won’t you please help? Thanks in advance for your kindness during this Holiday Season!

SAVE THE DATE MARCH 23, 2019!!SAVE THE DATE MARCH 23, 2019!! This year the FRV chapter will hold its annual Awards Ban-

quet and Fundraiser at Chandler’s Chop House in Schaum-

burg, Illinois on Saturday, March 23rd, 2019. The Banquet

honors the top anglers in the chapter in the musky category

as well as multi-species category. This event is our major

fundraiser of the year which supports the programs discussed

in this newsletter. We have a vast assortment of items that

are raffled off in silent, live auctions and bucket raffles. It

includes not only fishing tackle, but also guide trips, resort

packages, electronics, entertainment and dinner tickets and sporting events. Our prize total is

over $30,000 and Top prizes include Cubs, Bulls and Hawks tickets, freezer of meat, $1,000

cash, fishing packages, lure boards, ladies packages and much, much more. Information will be

available on the website and at the upcoming club meetings. For additional Information con-

tact Steve Kroll at: [email protected]

MEMBERS ONLY CONTEST STANDINGS P A G E 6


MULTI-SPECIES CONTEST NAME # REL POINTS

MEN'S DIVISION

1 Craig Peterson 4 232.49

2 Darren Nixon 4 193.82

3 Craig Thomton 5 187.52

4 Tom Maki 5 183.21

5 Phil Gutmann 3 138.63

6 Gary Quedenfeld 3 136.09

7 Joe Kieser 2 133.08

8 Mark Lamont 2 127.22

9 Eugene Gabinski 2 124.73

10 Steve Walter 4 115.03

11 Lou Principata 4 110.64

12 Rich Gallagher 3 104.24

13 Steven Hill 1 77.43

14 David Monczynski 2 55.91

15 Frank Lucido 1 19.13

WOMEN'S DIVISION

1 Carol Nixon 5 210.97

2 Shirley Phillips 2 56

3

4

5

JUNIOR'S DIVISION

1 Robbie Henderson 5 170.68

BEST OF SPECIES

NAME SPECIES LENGTH

Darren Nixon SM Bass 21

Robbie Henderson LM Bass 20

Craig Thomton Pike 44.75

Phil Gutmann Walleye 30.5

Mark Lamont Musky 50

FRV MUSKIES INC. P A G E 8


FROM THE MEMBERSHIP CORNER… FROM THE MEMBERSHIP CORNER… The December meeting is Wednesday the 12th featuring our own Dan Koniewicz.

Dan is one of the original founding members of the FRV Chapter, going back to the

days when meetings were held in back room at the Blue Moon Bar in Elgin. Dan has

put together a very interesting presentation, not to be missed. Our November meeting

featured Sean Bermingham. Sean gave a very informative talk on how to match rods

to reels, what lures work best with different rod lengths, matching fishing lines to rods

and the pros and cons of different types of leaders. How all of these factors can effect casting distance and

lure action during a retrieve. Where can you find this kind of formation? Maybe at a crowded Fishing Show

side presentation, but for sure at one of our monthly meetings. We try to make our meetings fun and interest-

ing, it takes planning, work and of course money. You can help by volunteering for

events, coming to meetings each month, becoming a board member. We are always

open to new ideas and we welcome your support, so step-up help the club to continue

to be successful. Now that the Holiday Season is upon us, let all of us be thoughtful,

generous with each other in action, generosity is not necessarily money, but good will.

Be happy with you are, what you have, love your family and friends. Enjoy the Holi-

days,

Frank Lucido

Membership Director

MS LUNKER OFTHE MONTH

NAME FISH POINTS

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr Phil Gutmann 1 47.23

May Darren Nixon 1 63.89

Jun Craig Thomton 1 62.67

Jul Robbie Henderson 1 40.23

Aug Steven Hill 1 77.43

Sep Eugene Gabinski 1 79.09

Oct Mark Lamont 1 93.22

Nov

Dec

MEMBERS ONLY PHOTOS P A G E 7


MEMBERS ONLY PHOTOS P A G E 9


MEMBERS ONLY PHOTOS P A G E 1 0


STOCKING PHOTOS P A G E 1 1


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