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M AY 2 0 1 5

What’s Inside

Board - General 2

Wednesday May

13th Ryan

McMahon is our

speaker.

Viet Nam Wall

3

FRV Club Raffle

FRV Summer

Fishing League

4

Spring Challunge

on the Chain 5

Cast For A Cure 6-7

Membership

Corner 8

Member photos 9

Upcoming

Events

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U P C O M I N G

E V E N T S

Wednesday May

13th club meet-

ing @ 7:00PM

featuring Ryan

McMahon.

Saturday May

16th FRV Chal-

lunge on the

Chain Musky

Tournament.

Saturday May

30th IMTT Russ

Schaller Memo-

rial Musky

Tournament

As your read this letter May has either arrived or is a few days away. Winter is behind us and our thoughts have turned to our summer pursuits of the mighty Muskie, multi-species and other outdoor activities. Based on the fish registered in our contest sev-eral of you have been out already and put a few in the boat. Oth-ers have been out on Lake Erie, Lake St Clair and the Detroit Riv-er catching monster walleye. In fact, there are a few pictures in this month’s newsletters of some of the catches. Our last regular

club meeting before the summer break will be on Wednesday, May 13th at Chandlers Chop House in Schaumburg. The meeting starts at 7:00PM with a buffet dinner served starting at 6:00PM. Our guest speaker will be Ryan McMahon, who will be talking about muskies in the Twin Cities and surrounding Minnesota waters. Club meetings will resume on September 9th. While we won’t be having meetings during the summer there are numerous activities that have been scheduled that you can participate in and enjoy. Some are volunteer activities and others are for fun. Details are in the newslet-ter but here is a summary of what we have coming up: May 16th-20th Challenge on the Chain Muskie Tournament May 17th-Take A Vet Fishing Event on the Fox Chain-Volunteers Needed June 2 thru 7-Traveling Vietnam Wall Memorial-Volunteers Needed June 13th-One Hope United Boy’s Outing on Deep Lake-Guides with Boats needed June 14th-Take A Vet Fishing Outing on Lake Waubesa-Volunteers Needed July 11th -14th-FRV Lake St Clair Outing July 11-18-Lake of the Woods Outing August 8th-Bartlett Kids’ Fishing Derby-Volunteers Needed Sept 12th-Cast for A Cure Cancer Outing on The Fox Chain Information on all of these events can be found in this newsletter on our website at FRVMuskies.com We will be holding a weekend Muskie fishing event for high school students (girls included), ages 13 to 18, on Columbus Day weekend at Lake Kincaid in Southern Illinois. Meals and lodging for the teens will be fully paid. Chaperones will be required to pay a minimum fee. Contact Hugh Flack or me for more information. Space is limited. On the business side of things, our awards banquet netted the chap-ter approximately $20,000. We had a capacity crowd of 220 people attend. The ”Catch a Trophy” raffle will net us approximately $6,000 after payouts. Thanks to all who at-tended or purchased raffle tickets. If you catch a big fish, post a picture on the website, whether it is a Muskie, walleye or other species. Enter the Muskies on the Muskies, Inc. Website or on our multi-species contest. We hope to see you at some of our events. Enjoy the summer in whatever your pursuits are. Catch some fish! Take a friend or kid fishing. Most important “Be Safe! We will see you all in September! Until then be well,

Steve Kroll

May Issue

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

following 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 M A Y 2 0 1 5

2015 BOARD MEMBERS

Frank Lucido - Membership Director 847-559-8300 Mark Lamont - Media Director 847-791-4766 Ryan Underwood Youth Director Steve Crook Res. & Stocking Dir. Todd Minor Speaker Director/ IMA Dave Klop PR Director Jimmy Ziebka Outings Director Pete Barber IMA Delegate Dan Lamkin Trade Show Director Ken Miller Contest Director Hugh Flack Chapter Rep. Tim Crews Merchandise Director Rich Gallagher Newsletter Editor Mark Rue ALD Mike Mark ALD

OFFICERS

President Steve Kroll (773) 724-6305 steve.kroll@thealdennetwork.com Vice President Dan Koniewicz Treasurer Pete Barber Secretary Blake Pawlikowski

Our thanks goes out to Chandlers and their fantastic staff for donating their banquet rooms to us every month! We can show our appreciation by attending

the buffet dinners before our meetings which begin at 6:00PM whenever possible… This helps to defray the costs for our monthly meeting charges. Please join us as often as possible for a great meal and some camaraderie! Cost is $14.00/Adults, $8.00/Child - does not include beverage

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FRV MUSKIES INC. P A G E 3 M A Y 2 0 1 5

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

RYAN MCMAHON IS

IN THE HOUSE ON

WEDNESDAY MAY

13TH, 2015!

R yan has been fishing muskies in MN and

WI for over 15 years and lives year round

in the Twin Cities Metro area. He guides profes-

sionally on several of the Metro areas prime

musky waters as well as some of greater Minne-

sota’s best fisheries. His client’s catch many tro-

phy fish each year without having to leave the

metro area. He is also a member of Muskie’s Inc.

and practices catch and release with all muskies

that enter his boat. Ryan focuses on teaching fun-

damentals and techniques as well as seasonal

musky location to his client’s. He has written

articles for Musky Hunter Magazine and Keyes

Outdoors Online Magazine. He’s also appeared on

Keyes Outdoors television show and given semi-

nars to many different fishing clubs. Whether it’s

fishing 101 or honing existing skills, he loves to

teach people and share some of his fish catching

tricks. Come join us for an evening with Ryan

talking Minnesota muskies! Admission is $3.00/

person at the door. All our meetings are open to

the public. The buffet dinner runs from 6:00PM-

7:00PM and cost is $14.00/ADULTS.

See the Vietnam

Memorial Wall at

Cabela’s!

Cabela's in Hoffman Estates is sponsoring a local visit by the traveling replica of the Vi-etnam War Memorial Wall in Washington, DC. This is a huge undertaking. The replica wall is some 250 feet long and requires 50 people to help erect it. While not requesting our help with erecting it, Cabela's is asking us to help man the display during the 4 days it will be open to the pub-lic, June 8th through June 11th. They are asking for 2 persons in shifts from 8:00AM to 8:00PM each day. Shifts would

be 2 to 4 hours each. FRV is a Sponsor and will also have a table which will require another person during these times. We consider this a very worthwhile project, even though it is not directly fishing related. Cabela's has been very good to the FRV Chapter, frequently donating major prizes and sup-port to FRV events. Cabela’s support includes a $5,000 grant, donating a $850 rod and reel we raffled off at the Muskie Show, and supporting our re-cent Awards Banquet and Fundraiser. To volunteer, please go to our website, www.frvmuskie.com where you will find the signup sheet. Dan Lamkin is coordinating this. The FRV Board would like to

see strong club support for this project. Your help is important. Also, if you have time to come see this it is a very humbling tribute to our fallen soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice. Instead of traveling to Wash-ington D.C. you and the family can actually see the replica right here in Hoffman Estates!

Pete Barber

FRV MUSKIES INC. M A Y 2 0 1 5 P A G E 4

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

Website: laxreproductions.com

Bus Phone: 715-547-3710

Cell Phone: 715-490-3710 Email laxreplicas@hughes.net

Got photos you’d like to see in our

monthly newsletter? Can be any-

thing outdoor related, kids fishing

photos, great fish pictures, hunting,

scenery, weather, sunsets, wildlife

etc…. Any species is OK, doesn’t

have to be just muskies! Please e-mail your photos

to our newsletter editor Rich Gallagher at

rgallagher@awtlabelpack.com and we’ll get it in the

upcoming issues for you!

FRV MONTHLY CLUB

RAFFLE WINNER!

O ur April 1st place “Catch A Trophy” win-

ner is Carli Antuna!! Carli’s name was drawn at the April 8th Club meeting at Chandlers and won $250.00! 2nd place winner was Sharon Mrohen. 3rd place winner was Floyd Schlossberg. 4th place winner was John Chmelik. 5th place win-ner was Cal Settecase. Floyd donated his winnings back to the FRV Chapter to put towards Youth and Stocking efforts! Thanks Floyd! If you haven’t bought your tickets yet-you still have time; as we will have 9 monthly drawings beginning in March! The monthly CA$H payouts will be as follows: 1st place $250.00, 2nd place $100.00, 3rd place $75.00, 4th place $50.00 and 5th place is

$25.00. No matter if you win 1st place or 5th place, your ticket will get put back into the drum, so it will be possible for you to win multiple times throughout the year! A booklet of 5 tickets has been mailed to every club member and we ask that each club member either buy the 5 tickets for themselves or sell the 5 tickets to friends, family or co-workers! The monies raised by this raffle will help support the clubs efforts with stocking, con-servation and youth programs throughout the year! Tickets are available at the monthly club meetings. As always we appreciate your support! Get out there and sell some tickets and raise some money for your chapter! Good luck and hopefully you or someone you know will cash in sometime in 2015!!

Steve Kroll/FRV President

FRV SUMMER

FISHING

LEAGUE!

Come on out and join your fel-

low FRV members for the FRV

2014 summer fishing league!

The fishing league dates are

Wednesday June 3rd, Wednes-

day July 1st and Wednesday Au-

gust 5th. Fishing hours will run

from 6:00PM-9:30PM. Check in

is at the Thirsty Turtle from 5-

6:00PM on the south end of

Channel Lake. The lakes open

to fish are Channel, Catherine,

Marie and Bluff or any channel

in-between these lakes. 2 per-

sons per team. No witnesses re-

quired, just a photo of the fish on

your bump board to get credit

for points. 1 point per inch for

muskies over 30”. You must

check in at the Turtle by

10:00PM. More details to follow

on the FRV website at

www.frvmuskie.com Hope we

can get a great turnout as we’ve

had lots of requests from mem-

bers!

CHALLUNGE ON THE CHAIN M A Y 2 0 1 5 P A G E 5

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

FISH THE LONGEST RUNNING & RICHEST MUSKY TOURNAMENT IN IL!

CAST FOR A CURE M A Y 2 0 1 5 P A G E 6

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

JOIN US AT THE

CAST FOR A CURE OUTING!

FRV MUSKIES INC. M A Y 2 0 1 5 P A G E 7

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

JOIN US AT THE

CAST FOR A CURE OUTING!

FROM THE

MEMBERSHIP

CORNER… Our monthly records indicate a small, but declining number in membership retention, which is exceed-ing new enrollments. This trend has been going on for

several months. There has also been a small decline in monthly meeting attendance. Though the decline is small it seems to be persistent. We are not sure why this is happening, but we are concerned enough to bring this to your attention and to see, with your help; how we can reverse this downward trend. Our contact with members is through monthly meetings, monthly newsletters and the website. FRV tries to book interesting and informative speakers that fall within our budget limitations. Let us know which speakers you like and give us your feedback.

Help us to help you! Where does the member come into this and how can you help? You can help in several ways: support the club by coming regularly (constraints permitting ) to monthly meetings, partake in the raffle, treat yourself to dinner and a drink when convenient. Give us suggestions on how to make the meeting more entertaining “AND” don’t forget to renew your member-ship when the time comes. Invite a friend or a neighbor to a monthly meeting. Come to a club sponsored fishing outing or volunteer to help out at one of our various events. For example, we need people several times a year to help man a booth at Cabela’s. This is a fun expe-rience and a chance to learn some new fishing facts. Join in with US to help make the FRV Chapter the best the in the Northwest Suburban area. Have a friend, neighbor or family member join the club with you! Share the fun! Best Regards!

Frank Lucido

Membership Director

MEMBERSHIP CORNER P A G E 8 M A Y 2 0 1 5

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

MEMBERS WHO ARE DROPPING IN APRIL & MAY

PLEASE RENEW YOUR MEMBER-SHIPS

Renewal Date Lastname Firstname 2015-04-17 Gasperel Tom 2015-04-17 Herzog John

2015-04-18 Newell Brendon

2015-04-19 Stunkel Maurice 2015-04-21 Trattner Terry 2015-04-22 Schroedl Jim R

2015-05-01 Krause Mark

2015-05-06 Murphy Mark

2015-05-06 Murphy Annette

2015-05-12 Ellis Charles

2015-05-14 Johnson Steve

2015-05-16 Warfel Jay 2015-05-24 Rowlee Christopher 2015-05-31 Nowak Ray

2015-05-31 Phillips John P

2015-05-31 Phillips Shirley

2015-06-06 Podgorski Bob 2015-06-12 Ceriale Tony 2015-06-21 Sponseller Ken

2015-06-28 Ludemann William 2015-06-29 Bottiglieri Frank

MEMBERS PHOTOS P A G E 9 M A Y 2 0 1 5

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

UPCOMING EVENTS P A G E 1 0 M A Y 2 0 1 5

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

BARTLETT KIDS DERBY SET BARTLETT KIDS DERBY SET FOR AUGUST 8TH AT BEAVER FOR AUGUST 8TH AT BEAVER POND IN BARTLETT!!POND IN BARTLETT!! On Saturday August 8th, 2015 the Fox Riv-er Valley Chapter and the Bartlett Pak District will hold the 37th Annual Kids Fish-ing Derby at Beaver Pond located in Bart-lett, IL off Stearns Road and Route 59. This event draws children from all over the North Suburban area. Children be-tween the ages of 2-16 years of age can participate in this free event! Children along with parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles all gather at Beaver Pond for a morning of fishing, family time and great prizes! This event is sponsored by Cabela’s, The Bartlett Park District and The Fox River Valley Chapter of Muskies, Inc. Prizes are awarded to anglers in age groups from 2-16 for the categories of Panfish, Bass, Catfish and Carp. They can win rods, reels, camping gear and fishing

tackle all provided courtesy of Cabela’s in Hoffman Estates! The grand prize is a kayak provided by the Bartlett Park Dis-trict. FRV is seeking participants to help as judges during the event to help meas-ure and record all fish that are caught and released during tournament hours which run from 9:00AM to 11:00AM. Registra-tion is free and opens at Beaver Pond at 8:00AM. All anglers MUST register from 8:00AM-9:00AM and then the fishing der-by begins at 9:00AM. Raffles are finished by 1:00PM and Mom’s and Dad’s with kids in tow are on their way home before

2:00PM! Dan Mitchell and his crew from the Bartlett Park District will be driving around the perimeter of the pond selling night crawlers and bottled water. They are also on hand to set up the main stage and sound

system to broadcast the event as the kids fishing derby unfolds. This is a free event open to the public and anyone between the ages of 2-16 can fish this derby! Please help to spread the word to come and fish this event which typically draws anywhere from 300-500 children. It’s a great ½ day event that is sure to put a smile on your child’s face. If you’d like to be a judge to help measure & record fish, please sign up at www.frvmuskie.com on the forum section. Please provide your name and contact information so that we can get a hold of you!

ONE HOPE UNIT-ONE HOPE UNIT-ED OUTING ON ED OUTING ON SATURDAY JUNE SATURDAY JUNE 13TH!!13TH!!

FRV BOD Member Mike

Mark is looking for guides

to help in the June 13th

Open Water Outing at

One Hope United in Lake

Villa on Deep Lake! We

need guides and boats to

take 23 foster care chil-

dren along with their

chaperons; fishing for the

morning! For those who

have helped in the past

you know the drill. What

do you get in return? A

day you’ll remember for

the rest of your life and

the satisfaction of “paying

it forward”. Many of the-

se foster care kids have

never been in a boat, let

alone had a “father” figure

around to teach them any-

thing about the outdoors

or fishing. Since Mike

Mark will be quarterback-

ing this event please re-

spond to Mike Mark at michaelmark1213@gmail.com if you can help us this

year. Logistically if we

have 23 kids we need at

least 11 guide boats to

pull this off. We need

your help in networking

with fellow fisherman

who have boats to help fill

up the guide roster!

Check out the post in the

FRV forum section of the

FRV website at

www.frvmuskie.com if

you can help! As always

your help is always appre-

ciated!

HIGH SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL MUSKY MUSKY

TOURNAMENT ON TOURNAMENT ON LAKE KINCAIDLAKE KINCAID

The FRV chapter is currently The FRV chapter is currently working on putting together working on putting together a High School musky tourna-a High School musky tourna-ment on Lake Kincaid on ment on Lake Kincaid on Sunday October 11th. The Sunday October 11th. The club would pick up room and club would pick up room and board for the High School board for the High School angler on Saturday (10/10) angler on Saturday (10/10) and Sunday (10/11). Mon-and Sunday (10/11). Mon-day is Columbus Day and day is Columbus Day and most students will have that most students will have that day off and can use that day day off and can use that day to travel home. The musky to travel home. The musky tournament would take tournament would take place on Sunday October place on Sunday October 11th. Anglers must have a 11th. Anglers must have a guardian attend the event guardian attend the event and all of the guardians costs and all of the guardians costs must be picked up by the must be picked up by the

guardian. Anglers will be guardian. Anglers will be able to preable to pre--fish on Saturday. fish on Saturday. To qualify for this event high To qualify for this event high school students must pro-school students must pro-vide an essay explaining why vide an essay explaining why they would like to fish this they would like to fish this event. We are also looking event. We are also looking for guides to provide boats for guides to provide boats to take these students fish-to take these students fish-ing on Saturday and Sunday. ing on Saturday and Sunday. We will allow a maximum of We will allow a maximum of 10 students to fish this tour-10 students to fish this tour-nament. If you have a stu-nament. If you have a stu-dent who would like to quali-dent who would like to quali-fy or if you are a musky an-fy or if you are a musky an-gler with a boat and would gler with a boat and would like to donate your time and like to donate your time and boat to help guide these boat to help guide these tournament anglers please tournament anglers please contact FRV BOD member contact FRV BOD member Hugh Flack at Hugh Flack at hughflack@sbcglobal.nethughflack@sbcglobal.net

UPCOMING EVENTS P A G E 1 1 M A Y 2 0 1 5

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

TAKE A VET FISHING is looking for guides for this event on the

Fox Chain of Lakes! Since this is our clubs

“home waters” we are hoping that some of

our members will help give something

back to our VETS! If you or someone you

know is interested in helping to take our

vets out fishing, please contact Jay Gar-

stecki at jgarstecki@yahoo.com

There is also another outing scheduled on

the Madison Chain on Sunday JUNE 14th

on Lake Waubesa. Jay and his crew are

also looking for volunteers for this event

as well. As current FRV member Dave Van-

Doorn states “it’s great to get these guys

out on the water and let them catch a

musky. It takes their minds off everything

at least for a little while. They love it”!

LAKE ST. CLAIR

OUTING JULY 11-14 The FRV members John Kretchmer and Tom Maki will be arriving at lake St. Clair mid-day on July 11 and will be departing mid-day on July 15. Your schedule is up to you. John and Tom will be staying at La Petite Dragon (not the Hilton!) which located in Belle River. Rooms approxi-mately $75 per night. The phone number for room reser-vations is (519)728-1147. Another option in Belle River is the Belle River Yacht Club. There are a limited number of rooms available at $100+ per night, so make sure you call ahead well in advance. Their number is (519)257-3095. There are lots of options in Windsor, Ontario about 30 minutes to the west. Here is a link for accommodations: http://visitwindsoressex.com/stay If you’d like to join the club on this outing please contact John Kretchmer at 815-519-2924 or e-mail John at: kretchmer655@comcast.net You can also contact FRV member Tom Maki at 847-712-3474 or e-mail Tom at tmaki@mc.net This wil be a great trip so grab a buddy and come on out with us!! Please let us know if you are attending.

LAKE of the WOOS OUTING

JULY 11th-18th Host: Angle Outpost Resort

Cost: $65/day (Includes Lodging, Dock, Electric and

Ice) + applicable taxes

Boat Rentals: Yes, but those needing this need to

speak with Lisa and Jason directly. (800-441-5014)

Reservations are currently being taken for our club

outing to Lake of the Woods in July 2015. The following

information is provided. All licenses/outdoor cards can

be purchased on-line now prior to the trip. Optional

permit is the Remote Area Border Crossing (RABC) which will be provided on the club website during the

month of April. As a majority of the muskie fishing is done on the Canadian side, the RABC permit anglers

to cross the border via the water without having to call into the MNR daily for permit numbers. Cost for the

RABC is about $30 and is good for 1 year. At the present time, we are about 40% full. For more infor-

mation, please contact Phil Gutmann at home 847-669-8286 or via email at muske62@comcat.net or at

any upcoming monthly club meeting. Deposit required is $100.00 per person and is payable to Angle

Outpost Resort. Deposits must be received by March 1, 2015. We will be trying once again plan for a club

Saturday Night Fish Fry for those that want to participate. This may change in the future as the resort is

trying to re-negotiate their license. One item that everyone needs to be aware of is the permit requirement

for your boat/trailer while traveling through Minnesota. Please visit the DNR site for Minnesota for details.

The program begins in January 2015. For additional information contact Phil Gutmann at 847-204-8286.

Fox River Valley Chapter

P.O. Box 7613

Algonquin, IL 60102

FIRST CLASS

US Postage PAID

Permit No. 320

Palatine P&DC IL

Interested in sponsorship for our tournament or advertising in our newsletter? Please contact the FRV Board members via email at:

info@frvmuskies.com

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