June Meeting Date - Location Change

This month’s meeting will be held on Saturday June 27^th at Rock Cut State Park. We will

meet at the parking lot next to the dam at 9:30 AM...rain or shine. We will be shocking the

spillway below the dam to find game fish to put back into Pierce Lake. We have historically had

a great time doing this so we thought we’d make a meeting out of it. If you’ve never witnessed

or participated in this, be sure to attend as it can be very exciting to catch so many game fish

in the nets, measure them and put them into tanks to bring up to the lake. Be sure to wear

clothes that can get dirty and wet as we welcome everyone to wade into the action. Bring rain

suits if you just want to watch and umbrellas if you’d like to photo the action if it rains. We will

be meeting Dan Salle from the Illinois DNR. Dan will be assisting us on this work day

meeting with the DNR boat and generator. Kids are welcome but they must be chaperoned as

we will be in and out of the water while the generator is shocking the fish. This is a great time

for the kids to see up close the difference in the fish and witness how to handle them. Don’t

miss this meeting. Be sure to bring a friend!

Kids Free Fishing Day Summary

Well, another Kids Day has come and gone. What a great time it was. The rain held off until

the very end and even when it did rain it wasn’t that bad. There was about 75 kids that

attended the event with MANY fish getting caught. There were even a few bass caught from

shore to really put up a fight on the light tackle. Again this year, every child that stayed until

the end went away with a nice prize and rod/reel combo if they wanted it. The prizes were

donated by Jon Trent last year. Actually, he donated so many that there was enough for last

year’s event as well as this year’s event. That’s a lot of toys! Thanks Jon. We also had

continuing support for this event from Norstar Mechanical and Nissan Forklift. We certainly

appreciate their support. Leo Hauser kicked in a very nice donation to help the cause as well

as bringing his daughter to volunteer their time to help the kids. Many thanks go out to those

that volunteered on behalf of the club and we thank you very much. I’ll try to list all that

volunteered and if I miss anyone, please forgive me: Steve Ruhmann, Tim Scruggs,

Kyle Scruggs, Dick Estes, Jack Pertz, Jeff Blanck, John Pfaff, Phil Blanck, Jim Lavern,

Leo Hauser, Jerry Larson, Bob Bunch, Russ Hoenecke, Mary Hoernecke, Stu Adrian,

Scott Grabow and of course Amy Shackleton. Thank you Amy for organizing everything again

this year. You make this a truly great event. Also a big thank you, to all the spouses, friends

and family that help out during this event. Your support is really appreciated. If you are

interested in helping out next year be sure to contact Amy to let her know. If you’d like

to see some photos from the day’s event, be sure to check out the Flatlander section of

www.muskylink.com. Where you can also add photos if you have some.

Thank you again to everyone that made this day possible.

Change in Committee Chairman Duties

Well, the economy has struck again. Due to the need to make house payments

(and boat payments) I will be spending the next years workdays in Bloomington, Il. At least

I’ll be home on weekends but it makes it hard to attend general meetings and EC meetings

in order to fulfill my obligations as the Newsletter Editor and Members Only Contest

Chairman. I will need to hand these duties off to other Flatlanders members in order to

ensure they get done properly with up to date information. I feel I cannot do that while

working out of town, absent from meetings. This is the last newsletter I will be writing

for a little while. The newsletter will now be done by Wally Haas, and I couldn’t hand

it off to a better person. Wally has -plenty of writing skills an Editor for the Rockford

Register Star. Wally is already the Flatlander Secretary on the Executive Board and is

catching more muskies than ever. He’ll do a great job. Thanks Wally. The Members

Only Contest will be documented by Kyle Scruggs. Kyle will also do a great job as he is

really getting into this whole “musky” thing by catching some huge fish over the last

few years. Be sure to send your release forms to Kyle at the following address:

5520 Cypress Lane Machesney Park Illinois 61115

and his e-mail address is addicted2musky50@att.net.

I thank you both, guys for picking up the slack. There is definitely a need for

more help on the board and committees if anyone is interested...now more

than ever as tasks are being done by only a few members. I know the club

would appreciate your help. Jeff Blanck

No July Meeting

There will be no July general meeting for the club this summer. Many members will be

venturing out to their favorite fishing hole to try for the elusive musky. Sometimes it’s

hard to get members off the water long enough to talk about fishing...well we’ve talked

about it enough...it’s time to catch some muskies! We’ll see you in August. Stay tuned

for August meeting information in the next newsletters.

September Vermilion Outing

There’s still a couple openings for anyone wanting to go to Vermilion with a group

of us in September. The 12^th through the 19^th is the week and we’ll be staying at

Vermilion Dam Lodge at a cost of $285 per person. There are some giants in that

lake just waiting for us. If you are interested, be sure to contact Jeff Blanck for

more information.