Meeting Review

Last weeks monthly club meeting was one of the best "regular" meetings I have been to in some time. We had an extremely good turnout, possibly due to the great weather and partly due to the fact open water season is upon us. Several things were discussed including an upcoming yard sale fundraiser, the Junior Club schedule (which I will post afterward) and the catch and release tournaments. Jim Rice also served as our guest speaker and he detailed Baw Beese which will be the site of the first tournament and gave us some insight as to how he will fish it.

As far as the pre-season tourneys go, Bill Maurer set the deadline for entry forms on April 15th for Baw Beese and May 1st for Hardy Dam. This will give us at least two weeks prior to each event but keep in mind that we will only have one meeting prior to May 1st so bring both to the April meeting or remember to mail the Hardy Dam info in before the deadline. Most of the folks at the meeting seemed to already be partnering up for the events so I think the turnouts will be significant. Last year we had 20 entries for Michigan Center and 22 for Hardy so we should surpass that.

As for the "guest speaker", Jim Jr. gave a little insight into Baw Beese and he believes it will be a pre-spawn event. "Most of the fish will be relating to the spawning areas and I will target these with spinnerbaits, rattle traps and possibly topwaters" declared Rice. He also said he would target any wind protected bays and said there are decent possibilities in the other lakes on the chain as well. As the event draws nearer I will give on the water reports as they come in. I expect there to be open water as early as this weekend but personally won't start practicing for Baw Beese until mid- April.

Here is the Junior Club schedule:

June 10 Michigan Center

June 22 Clark Lake

July 8 Little Wolf

July 22 Grass Lake

August 3 Wamplers

Classic to be held Saturday, August 21 at Devils Lake

Anyone interested in fishing with the kids please contact Scott Rice prior to event