THE LAKE LINK › 2019 › 08 › lake-link...will miss his smiling face and great humor in the meantime. Our 6 Lakes Calendar of Events Volume 27, Issue 3 The Lake Link Fall 2017

Baby • Kerr • Kid • Lost • Man • McKeown Lakes Association • Our6lakes.org

PAST PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE -BY MIKE GULBRANDSON

Volume 28, Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2018

T HE L AKE L INK

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Association News, page 2

Neighborhood News,

pages 3- 4

July 4th Boat Parades

Man Lake Pizza Party

Hackensack Library

Buoy 101

Deer Repellent

Cabin Cooking, page 5

Feature Story: New Northern

Pike Zones, pages 6-7

It’s Good to Know,

Secchi Disks, page 8

Dragonflies, page 9

Who Ya Gonna Call?,

page 10

Classifieds, page 11

Mission Statement: Our mission is to preserve and

improve water quality, fish

habitat, and the well-being of

wildlife in our lakes and

watershed.

If you have any questions or

concerns about your lake, please

contact your lake representative

listed within this newsletter.

Board Meeting Sat., June 9 @ 9:00 a.m. Brian & Monica Laudenbach’s 4167 Cedar Trail NW

Ladies of Baby Lake Coffee Fri., June 8 @ 9:30 a.m Joni Kumpula 4168 Interlachen Rd.

Man Lake Annual Pizza Party Sat., June 16 @ 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Gary & Linnea Dietrich's 4405 Buxton Rd. NW

Hackensack Flea Market June 13, July 11, August 8 Sacred Heart Catholic Church

Baby Lake Boat Parade Wed., July 4 @ 11:00 a.m. Meet at Partridge Point

McKeown Lake Boat Parade Wed., July 4 @ 11:00 a.m.

Meet at the Culvert

Kid-Lost Lakes Boat Parade Wed., July 4 @ 1:00 p.m. Meet in front of old Interlachen Resort

Josh Duffee and His Big Band July 6 & 7 @ 7:30 p.m. Hackensack Community Center

Board Meeting Sat. July 14 @ 9:00 a.m. Location TBD

Annual 6 Lakes Meeting Sat., July 28 @ 9:00 a.m. UCC Church, Hackensack

Northwoods Art & Book Festival Sat., August 11 @ 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. HCC & United Congregational Church

Board Meeting Sat., August 25th Location TBD

Thank you, everyone, for an interesting two years as your president. We enter 2018 in good financial condition with a great volunteer staff. Between attending the ACCL meetings (Association of Cass County Lakes) scheduled during the summer and our own board meetings, I learned a lot about our lakes & fisheries. Did you know that we sit in the middle of what is likely the purest watershed in the USA? The lake association board meetings are open to all and will enrich your understanding of your property. As for our 6 Lakes, you, the principal care

takers, have earned a bow from our future generations. Thank you again. This year’s association Vice President, Brian Laudenbach, is filling in as interim President this spring for Alkis Michaelides who is under going some doctoring. Hopefully Alkis will be full strength again soon to take the reins for our organization. Lord knows our board will miss his smiling face and great humor in the meantime.

Our 6 Lakes Calendar of Events

Volume 27, Issue 3 The Lake Link Fall 2017

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Association News

2017-18 Board of Directors Meetings (open to all members) Board meetings will rotate each month among the members

April 28, 2018 Board Meeting Sue & Charley Ready

4688 Evergreen Dr. NW - 10:30 a.m.

June 9, 2018 Board Meeting Brian & Monica Laudenbach

4167 Cedar Trail NW - 9:00 a.m.

July 14, 2018 Board Meeting TBD - 9:00 a.m.

July 28, 2018 Members’ Annual Meeting UCC Church, Hackensack

8:00 a.m. Registration, 9:00 a.m. Meeting

August 25, 2018 Board Meeting Time and place TBD

Agenda items due to the President one week prior to board meetings or bring to meeting



Neighborhood News

4th of July Boat Parades We’re looking forward to another In-dependence Day celebration on our lakes. Decorate your favorite water-craft and join us in the fun. Guests from neighboring lakes welcome!

Baby Lake Boat Parade Wed., July 4 @ 11:00 a.m.

Meet at Partridge Point

McKeown Lake Boat Parade Wed., July 4 @ 11:00 a.m.

Meet at the Culvert

Kid-Lost Lakes Boat Parade Wed., July 4 @ 1:00 p.m.

Meet in front of old Interlachen Resort

Man Lake Pizza Party

All Man Lake lakeshore owners and their families are invited to the annual Man Lake pizza party to be held Saturday, June 16 from 11:30

to 2:00 at Gary and Linnea Dietrich's on Buxton Road. Bring your favorite pizza toppings and we will provide the pizza dough and sauce. After you make your pizza, Linnea will bake it in the Dietrichs' wood fired brick oven. (At 700 degrees it takes only about five minutes!) We will provide salads, water and lemonade, paper plates, cups, utensils and desserts. Please bring lawn chairs for your group. Dress for the weather and hope for sunshine. We look forward to seeing familiar faces and we hope to see new ones as we start the summer at the lake. Please RSVP with our Man Lake representative, Lois Anderson, by calling (612) 275-8806 or email [email protected], or Linnea Dietrich, (612) 810-340 or [email protected]. Also, please let us know how many will be coming so we can make enough pizza crusts. We hope to see all our neighbors in June!

Hackensack Lending Library by Mary Ann Jandura

This library is located in a picturesque log cabin on Birch

Lake, across the parking lot from the Chamber of Commerce, in downtown Hackensack. This is not a public library so no library card is needed. All our books are donated and are located in two rooms of the log cabin. One room contains adult books and the other room has an impressive number of children's and young adult books.

The library will open on June 1, 2018 and close on August 31, 2018. Library hours are 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Monday thru Thursday. A new addition to the library is a "Little Library" ( a little house which is 2 ft. by 2 ft. on a pole) which may be accessed for library books when the library is closed. The "Little Library" is located across the parking lot from the Lending Library next to the Chamber of Commerce by the wooden fence.

Ladies from Baby Lake Join your neighbors for coffee on

Friday, June 8th @ 9:30 a.m. 4168 Interlachen Rd

RSVP (218) 682-2026 Joni Kumpula



Neighborhood News

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A Note From Our 6 Lakes Buoy Master By Chuck Millberg

As we approach another summer boating season on our beautiful six lakes, it’s important to reacquaint ourselves with the navigation aids used on Baby and Man Lakes. Buoys are navigation aids that float on top of the water and are moored to the bottom of the lake with a chain and heavy anchor. Our 6 Lakes buoys are cylindrical in shape, eight inches in diameter, and approximately 6-8 feet long, although only 3-4 feet protrude above the surface of the water. The markings on each buoy alert you to the following:

Black & White Vertical Stripes: Indicates that there is a shoreward obstruction (a line of rocks, etc.) and that you should not pass between the buoy and the nearest point on shore.

White with Orange Diamond: Warns boaters of a specific danger such as an underwater rock or cluster of rocks. The source of danger may be lettered in black.

White with Orange Circle and Black Lettering: alerts boaters to a controlled or restricted area on the water. The most common restriction is a “slow no-wake” area. Slow no-wake means operating your boat at the slowest possible speed necessary to maintain steerage, but in no case greater than five miles-per-hour. We have three slow no-wake buoys in Tussler’s Bay near the Baby Lake public access.

If you see a buoy that is damaged or needs attention, please contact Chuck Millberg at 218-682-3938 or email at [email protected]. For additional boating information please refer to the Minnesota Boating Guide which can be found at www.dnr.minnesota.gov/regulations/boatwater.

Deer Repellent By Cindy Gulbrandson We love deer, but we don’t love the deer eating our plants. Try these two sure-fire ways to keep the fauna away from the flora. HOMEMADE DEER REPELLENT FOR PLANTS 1 cup water One egg 1 tablespoon garlic powder 1 tablespoon hot sauce (cheapest kind is good enough) Put all of the above Into a blender and blend well. Then put into pump sprayer and spray on plants when they are dry. I have a lot of plants that I spray so I usually make up at least six times the recipe. REPELLEX (tablets) A wonderfully effective product, Repellex is a systemic animal repellent approved for repelling deer, rabbits, moles, voles, gophers, groundhogs, feral hogs, dogs and cats. Breakthrough technology allows capsaicin (hot pepper) to be absorbed into the plant by simply planting a tablet next to a growing plant’s root system. Once the repellent is absorbed over 7-30 days, it will stay active for up to one whole year. Since the repellent is internally treating the plant, it will not wash off in the rain like traditional repellents do over time.



Cabin Cooking

Shrimp Tostadas for Two by Sue Ready

Cook's Notes: Spring on a plate with a light meal just for TWO! It's easy with a few shortcuts to speed up the preparation. Use prepared coleslaw from the deli and purchase fresh cooked shrimp. Corn tortillas were used in the recipe as they have more flavor. Ingredients can easily be increased to serve more.. Ingredients: 2 corn tortillas 1 tsp. olive oil 1 TB. butter 2 large garlic cloves, minced 10 large shrimp, tails removed and cut into 1 inch pieces 1 small container prepared coleslaw from the deli 1/2 cup red onion, minced 3/4 cup grape tomatoes, diced 1 medium avocado, diced 1/2 cup yellow sweet mini- peppers, diced Fresh lime juice Optional; Tabasco sauce to taste or Sriracha

Directions: In a non-stick fry pan heat olive oil. Fry tortillas until crisp, flipping halfway through about 1 minute. Drain on a paper towel-lined plate, season with salt and keep warm. In same fry pan melt butter, adding in shrimp and garlic. Stir-fry about 2-3 minutes and squirt lime juice on shrimp. Season with Tabasco or Sriracha if using and stir in avocado pieces, diced tomatoes, peppers and onions. Top each warmed tostadas with coleslaw and then shrimp mixture.

Thank You! Thank you to everyone who shared photos of their off-season fun on our Facebook page! To join our closed group, type in Our 6 Lakes in the search bar and click on “+ Join Group.” We love your photos!

Baby Lake Sunset Bear Tracks



Feature Story: Northern Pike Zoning

New Northern Pike Zones By Stan Kumpula

The following article and summary of the fishing regulations affecting our lakes was taken from the MN DNR website for your information as there have been some significant changes made in the Northern Pike regulations. You'll find this voracious predator in nearly every Minnesota lake and stream. It's one of the easiest fish to catch because it so willingly bites lures or bait. And – big or small – they're one of Minnesota's most fun fish to catch. But the comparatively small fish often landed – what experienced anglers call “hammer-handles” – cause problems in much of Minnesota, especially in the northern areas. Too many of these fish, generally less than 22 inches long, in a lake can reduce perch numbers to unhealthy levels, tip the balance toward smaller panfish and reduce the effectiveness of walleye stocking.

Pike issues Northern pike zones Because pike populations differ in various regions of the state there isn't just one issue – or one solution. In the northeast, pike are present in relatively low numbers and at relatively large sizes. They reproduce naturally. Although they grow slowly, they can grow quite large because relatively few anglers scatter limited fishing pressure across a large number of lakes. In southern Minnesota, pike are less abundant and don't reproduce as well as in the north. Southern Minnesota has high fishing pressure and a high harvest rate relative to the number of pike; however, these fish grow fast. The north central area is plagued by too many small pike. There is moderate to high fishing pressure and high harvest of large and medium size pike. Pike grow slowly here, and an over-abundance of small pike is the result.

One size doesn't fit all North central When new regulations take effect in spring 2018, the majority of the state will be in the North-Central zone, where the issue is overpopulation of small pike. The objectives are to allow more harvest of abundant small pike and shift population size

(Continued on page 7)



Feature Story: Northern Pike

structure to more medium-sized pike. The North-Central regulation zone will start on a line stretching roughly from Hastings to just south of the Twin Cities and over to Ortonville; and in the north from Duluth along U.S. Highway 53 until it reaches International Falls. In the North-Central zone, anglers will be able to keep 10 northern pike, but not more than two pike longer than 26 inches; and all from 22 to 26 inches must be released. Northern pike taken by spearing follow the same rules except one pike may be between 22 and 26 inches or two larger than 26 inches. Northeast The approach here is meant to maintain harvest opportunity and protect large fish already present. In the Northeast zone, anglers will be able to keep two pike. All from 30 to 40 inches will require release and only one over 40 inches is allowed in possession. Spearers will also be able to take two pike but only one may be larger than 26 inches. South The approach here is meant to increase pike abundance and improve the size of fish harvested. In the Southern zone, anglers and spearers will be able to keep two fish, with a minimum size of 24 inches. Other areas Lakes with special or experimental regulations will remain in place until the special regulation has been evaluated and a decision made through a public process to continue the special regulation, modify it or convert to the zone regulation. The new zone regulations will not apply to border waters with neighboring states or provinces. Note: Our 6 Lakes Association lakes don’t necessarily fit with this generalization of the northern pike populations but many of our surrounding lakes do, so we are included in this concept.

(Continued from page 6) SUMMARY OF THE FISHING

REGULATIONS FOR OUR LAKES

Inland Waters: Seasons and Possession Limits

Walleye and Sauger: Season: 5/12/18 - 2/24/19

Possession Limit: 6 combined, not more than one walleye over 20"

Northern Pike - Season: 5/12/18 - 2/24/19

North-central zone only (Our Lakes area):

Angling: 10 (not more than 2 over 26".

All from 22-26" must be immediately released).

Muskellunge – Season: 6/2/18 - 12/2/18

Possession Limit: 1, minimum size 54"

Largemouth and smallmouth bass in our area:

Season: 5/12/18 - 5/25/18 (Catch-and-release only)

Season: 5/26/18 - 9/9/18

Possession Limit: 6 combined

Season: 9/10/18 - 2/24/19

Largemouth Bass: Possession Limit: 6

Smallmouth Bass (Catch-and-release only)

Crappie: Continuous Season – Limit: 10

Sunfish: Continuous Season – Limit: 20

Rock Bass: Continuous Season – Limit: 30

Perch: Continuous Season - 20 daily and 40 in possession

White Bass: Continuous Season – Limit: 30

Bullhead: Continuous – Limit: 100

Note: The fishing regulations list other species that are not in our lakes and are excluded here.



It’s Good to Know: Secchi Disks

History of the Secchi Disk By Mike Gulbrandson

You may have seen our Lake Reps testing your lake waters six times each odd numbered year. One of their chores is to measure water clarity. The Secchi disk, the black and white 8-inch plate at the bottom of many a limnologist’s rope, was invented by Pietro Angelo Secchi, an Italian Jesuit priest in 1865. In fact, the story goes, he first deployed the instrument into the waters of the Mediterranean, dropping the disk in over the side of the papal yacht. But, before Secchi made his indelible mark on this field of study, he made waves in another field. Secchi was a prolific scientist, publishing more than 700 papers in his lifetime (1818-1878). But the bulk of those papers were in his true discipline – astrophysics. Secchi is credited with developing the first spectral classification system for stars. He also discovered a comet (named after him), drew one of the earliest maps of Mars and served as a professor of astronomy and director of the observatory at the Roman College in the Vatican. Luckily for limnology (if not for Secchi), the Jesuits were expelled from Rome in 1848, an exile that eventually led Secchi to Georgetown University in Washington D.C., where he befriended Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, who would become superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory. This friendship led Secchi to devote at least a little bit of his attention to aquatic, rather than astronomic, matters. This served him well when, as one of the scientific advisers to the Pope, Secchi was asked to quantify water

clarity in the Mediterranean Sea. The rest, as they say, is history and, on April 20, 1865, Secchi stood on that papal yacht and plopped the first disk into the (presumably clear) Mediterranean waters. The manner of lowering a white painted disc into the water until it disappeared out of sight was described by Pietro Angelo Secchi in the publication Il Nuovo Cimento in 1865. It was then standardized and the method was adopted by the end of the nineteenth century. There were other water clarity measurements that pre-dated Secchi. The first records on regular, tabulated measurements of transparency of natural waters are those by the German naturalist Adelbert von Chamisso during the Russian ‘Rurik’ Expedition 1815-1818 under the command of Otto von Kotzebue. The Austrian scientist Josef Roman Lorenz von Liburnau, also experimenting with submersible objects like white disks in the Gulf of Quarnero (Croatia) in the 1850s, well before Secchi started his investigations, questioned the naming of the white disk. However, because the experiments performed by Secchi had been on such an intensive scale, had never been done like this, and had become standardized, Secchi earned the naming rights of the disk. New technology exists that can provide more accurate water clarity readings but, since people have been using Secchi disks for 150 years, continuing the practice allows us to track water clarity trends over long periods of time. Plus, since anyone can use Secchi disks, Pietro Angelo’s namesake device is now in the hands of citizen scientists across the globe, allowing scientists to ask big picture questions across immense amounts of space and time.

Taking a Secchi Disk Reading

1. Lower the Secchi disk into the water on the shady side of the boat. Keep lowering the disk slowly until it disappears. Note the depth on the cord.

2. Slowly pull the disk up until you see it again. Note the depth on the cord.

3. Average the two depths to the nearest half-foot mark on the cord.

4. Record the average depth on the Secchi data sheet along with the date and time of the reading.



It’s Good to Know: Dragonflies

Dragonflies By Sue Ready & Mike Gulbrandson

“In the bottom of an old pond lived some grubs who could not understand why none of their groups ever came back after crawling up the stems of the lilies to the top of the water. They promised

each other that the next one who was called to make the upward climb would return and tell what happened to him. Soon one of them felt an urgent impulse to seek the surface; he rested himself on the top of a lily pad and went through a glorious transformation, which made him a dragonfly with beautiful wings. In vain he tried to keep his promise. Flying back and forth over the pond, he peered down at his friends below. Then he realized that even if they could see him they would not recognize such a radiant creature as one of their number. The fact that we cannot see our loved ones or communicate with them after the transformation, which we call death, is no proof that they cease to exist.” - by Walter Dudley Cavert With our endless winter have you wondered: Do dragonflies hibernate? Dragonfly and damselfly adults are not equipped to deal with colder conditions and start to die off as winter approaches. All mating has been done and the next generation is ready as either eggs that have been laid, waiting until the spring to hatch, or as dragonfly and damselfly nymph that have already hatched from the eggs. The nymphs will actively hunt and grow in the water and, depending on the species, will be ready to become adults in the following spring or in the years ahead.

A dragonfly has a life span of more than a year, but very little of that life is actually as an adult dragonfly. There are three stages of the dragonfly life cycle, the egg, the nymph, and the adult dragonfly. Most of the life cycle of a dragonfly is lived out in the nymph stage and you don’t see them at all, unless you are swimming underwater in a lake or pond with your eyes opened, of course A male and a female dragonfly will mate while they are flying in the air. After two dragonflies mate, the female dragonfly will lay her eggs on a plant in the water, or if she can’t find a suitable plant she will just drop them into the water. Once the dragonfly eggs hatch, the life cycle of a dragonfly larva begins as a nymph.

A nymph looks like a little alien creature. It hasn’t grown its wings yet and has what looks like a crusty hump hanging onto its back. Dragonfly nymphs live in the water while they grow and develop into dragonflies. This portion of the dragonfly life cycle can take up to four years to complete, and if the nymph cycle is completed in the beginning of the wintertime, it will remain in the water until spring when it is warm enough to come out. Are you aware that there is an

organization in the Twin Cities whose main goal is to ensure the conservation of Minnesota dragonflies and damselflies through research and education? Check out their awesome website mndragonflysociety.org for ways to get involved, special ongoing events and to learn more about their resources. Take some time to look at their incredible dragonfly photos.

“Time is for dragonflies and angels.

The former live too little and the latter

live too long.” - James Thurber

We’ve Got New (e)Mail! Our lake association has changed its membership email address. Please update your contact lists. Thank you!

[email protected]

URGENT! A volunteer is needed to fill the secretary position on

our 6 Lakes Association board immediately. Please call Brian Laudenbach (320) 248-4907 to inquire.



Who Ya Gonna Call?

Board Members & Lake Representatives

The Lake Link Submittal Policy Stories, articles and comments submitted by members are strongly encouraged and welcomed. They may be printed in the newsletter depending on available space and the appropriateness of the subject matter and content. The submitted material may be edited to fit the available space and will be attributed to the person submitting the material. The editor makes the final decision as to whether or not the submitted material will be published in the newsletter. No politically oriented content will be published. Opinions or positions contained in submitted articles do not reflect the association’s policies or points of view.

Alkis Michaelides - President 7080 Carey Lane Maple Grove, MN 55369 Cell: 612-799- 4851

Brian Laudenbach - Vice President 143 Cheval Drive Sartell, MN 56377 320-248-4907

Mike Gulbrandson - Past President 4528 Evergreen Dr. NW Hackensack, MN 56452 218-682-2760

Karla Lutterman - Treasurer 4545 Evergreen Dr NW Hackensack MN, 56452 14077 Dane Ave Rosemount MN, 55068 651 214-5827 Send Mail to: P. O. Box 86 Hackensack, MN 56452

Secretary - OPEN

Laura Turnacliff - Membership Chair [email protected]

Stan Kumpula - Lakes Mgmt. Team Leader 4168 Interlachen Dr. NW Hackensack, MN 56452 218-682-2026

Randy Turnacliff - Water Quality Team Leader 4422 Buxton Rd NW Hackensack, MN 56452 Cell: 612-412-7054 Home: 218-682-2122

John Poor - Co-Chair of Fisheries Team 1697 Partridge Lane Hackensack, MN 56452 Cell: 305-803-2461

John Jensen - Co-Chair of Fisheries Team Cell: 507-271-2474

Rob Chapman - Baby Lake Rep. 19831 Everhill Avenue Farmington, MN 55024 Lake: 218-682-3461 Home: 651-463-4720

Chuck & Kathleen Millberg - Baby Lake Reps. 4567 Evergreen Trail NW Hackensack, MN 56452 218-682-3938

Brian & Monica Laudenbach Co-Kid Lake Reps 143 Cheval Drive Sartell, MN 56377 320-248-4907

Lois Anderson - Man Lake Rep. 145 Choctaw Circle Chanhassen, MN 55317 Cell: 612-275-8806

Norm Wieland - McKeown Lake Rep. 4167 Tall Timber Trail, NW Hackensack, MN 56452 218-682-2352

Chuck Naeckel - Kerr Lake Rep. 1585 County 5 Hackensack, MN 56452 563-332-1905

Dave Rueter - Lost Lake Rep. 12256 Lakeview Drive N Maple Grove, MN 55369

Charley Ready - Web Master Our6lakes.org 4668 Evergreen Trail NW Hackensack, MN 56452 218-682-2562

Sue Ready - Newsletter [email protected]

Mike & Lanet Johnson - Lakeledger [email protected] 3914 Perry Avenue N Robbinsdale, MN 55422 (Mike) 612-201-4915 (Lanet) 952-807-8264

AIS Team Leader - OPEN Secretary - OPEN

Note: All listed individuals are considered association board members. Please attend all board functions. Your contributions are very important.



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Help us – help animals, find their

“Forever Home”

Wayne’s Mowing Service - Mowing jobs wanted in the lake

association area -

Call to make arrangements

Wayne Molstead (218) 682-2065, after May 15

(218) 232-2924, during winter

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