Ohio Huskie Muskie Club, Inc.Volume 4, Issue 3 – September 2009

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Ohio Huskie Muskie Club, Inc.Board of Trustees

O.H.M.C. Phone (419) 874-4929501(c3) Non-Profit Organization

Tax ID 34-1771585Web Site www.web.tusco.net/ohiohuskiemuskieclub

OFFICERSFred Lederer President10327 N. Bramblewood 419-874-4929Perrysburg, Ohio 43551 ohmcprez@sbcglobal.netAaron Kirkingburg 1st Vice President6051 Jackson Town Road SE 740-323-4534Newark, Ohio 43056 the6kirks@roadrunner.comNeil O’Brien 2nd Vice President7030 Garret Ct 614-890-0489Westerville, Ohio 43082 tnob@insight.rr.comVicki Hayes Secretary9602 Dunraven Dr. 513-825-7413Cincinnati, Ohio 45251 vhayes@fuse.netLisa Kirkingburg Treasurer6051 Jackson Town Road SE 740-323-4534Newark, Ohio 43056 the6kirks@roadrunner.com

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2009 FALL OUTING & STEAK FRYWell the time has come for the Ohio

Huskie Muskie Club’s last club event ofthe year, the Fall Outing and steak fry, tobe held this year at Alum Creek Lake, nearDelaware Ohio on September 26th and27th. This event is only for current OHMCmembers, families and guests fishing intheir boats. But you may also sign up as amember at the event if you know of some-one willing to do so. Registration will atthe ramp near the Cheshire Rd Ramp nearthe causeway. Registration will start at6:00am on Saturday morning and continuetill 8:00am. You may register on Friday ifyou find me in the State campground.YOU MUST REGISTER BEFOREYOU START FISHING. But if you hap-pen to arrive late you may contact us onCB channel 17 or VHF channel 68. Thereis a $5 fee for each entrant, for this eventand we encourage you to support the 50/50raffle and the rod/reel raffle as these rafflessupport the event. The outing will end onSunday at 3:00pm. All MAL card formuskies caught at this event must beturned in to Fred Lederer at the registra-tion site by 4:00pm on Sunday to qualifyfor awards. If you enter your catchesonline into the MAL you must still do so

as we will not be sending in the cards. Ifyou register your catches with the cards,please make sure to take the cards backafter we record the catches for the event,as each person is responsible to send intheir MAL card to the ODNR. First andSecond place trophies will be awarded atour 49th Annual Awards Banquet in March2010 based on the largest musky caught bylength. Alum Creek Lake is an unlimitedhorsepower Lake.

We will also have our potluck dinnerstarting at 4:00 PM on Saturday, at the reg-istration area. Please plan on bringing acovered dish to share. The club will pro-vide the utensils. The club will also be tak-ing orders for the steaks. Steaks are now$7.00 each and MUST be ordered andpaid in advance. Please contact me byphone at 419-874-4929 or email at ohm-cprez@sbcglobal.net or in writing byMonday September 21st so I have time toorder and pick up the steaks. Make checkspayable to: The Ohio Huskie MuskieClub, Inc and mail to Fred Lederer 10327North Bramblewood Road, Perrysburg,Ohio 43551.

Good Luck to all.

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2009 Ohio Huskie Muskie Club Inc. Annual Division DayBy Fred Lederer

Greg Mackey of Concord Township, OH – 32.00 inch

Jeff Ferjutz of Independance Oh – 30,00 inch

Alfred Dowes of Geneva Oh – 30.00 inch

Jake Lederer of Perrysburg, Oh – 28.00 inch

Barb Holiga of Jamestown Pa – 23.00 inch

Everyone who registered for the tournament also received adoor prize. Thanks to all the donators of those prizes. We alsodrew the poster prize tickets for the grand prize 50/50 drawingworth $1,019.50.

Edie Thompson of Cortland, Oh was the lucky winner of the2009 Grand Prize. Edie sold the ticket to herself so that gives heranother $100 since we give the winning ticket seller $100.

Club member Aaron Kirkingburg sold the most tickets($257.00 worth) Our event 50/50 raffle ($136) was won byGeorge Dickson of Girard, Oh. George also set up a table sellingenergy snacks and drinks and then donated all the proceeds to theclub. George can be contacted at (330) 545-8830 if you wouldlike more information

Fred Lederer (El Presidente) of Perrysburg, Ohio won the 7Foot St. Croix Rod with the ABU Garcia 6500 C3. We were ableto purchase the rod from St. Croix and the reel from Pure Fishingat a reduced price.

Jim McConnel of Mountview OH won the Lakewood TackleBox donated by OHMC 2nd VP Neil O’Brien, William Moy ofPortland, Oh won the stainless steel BBQ set and Ron Frantz ofGreenville Pa won the Fisherman’s digital watch. Thanks to allthe people who bought tickets to support the event. Thanks toGreg Ellison of Traxstech an John Odicinski of Ziggie CustomMusky Lures for attending the event and showing their productson Friday. Both made nice donations to the club and signed up asnew members too. Also thanks to the other various club sponsorsfor donating some of the door prizes. Without all of our sponsorsthis event would not be possible. Get out and patronize theseOHMC supporters and let them know when you do, that you arewith OHMC. I would like to thank all of trustees and memberswho worked at the event to make this tournament a success. With-out their help, it would not happen. Next years Summer Contestwill be held at Salt Fork lake in Cambridge, Ohio. Hope to seeeveryone at our last event of the year, the Fall Outing and SteakFry to be held at Alum Creek Lake on Sept 26th, and 27th.

THE 39th OHMC ANNUAL OPEN SUMMER CONTESTwas held at Pymatuning Lake the weekend of July 13th & 14th,2009. This was the send year in a row that the members voted tohave this event at Pymatuning. As always the event was open tothe public. Headquarters was set up at the main beach Pavilionnear the causeway. Special thanks to the park management forallowing us use of the Pavilion instead of renting a tent. Thisworked out very well for us. Saturday started us out with a nicemorning and afternoon but by early afternoon the wind picked upclouds unleashed a good drenching upon us. Sunday was nice allthe way thru the awards ceremony. We hosted 56 muskie anglersFrom Ohio, Pennsylvania and even a few from West Virginia, inpursuit of the mighty muskie. Attendance was down this yearunderstandably with as tight as things are right now for a lot ofpeople. There were no huskies caught this year which was a sur-prise for this lake, but the fishing were down overall too. I wouldhave thought we were all going to tear them up with the stormsthat rolled thru. But most attendees had a hard time of finding thefish. There were only 16 muskies turned in total with a fewanglers registering multiple muskies. The three winners in theSportsman Division received a trophy award. I would like to con-gratulate everyone on good releases to let these fish be caughtagain in the future.

The Sportsman Division.

First place winner was Jason Augusta of Niles Oh. with a41.25 �.

Second place went to George Kourkounakis of Dover Oh.with a 40.00 �.

Third place winner was a tie between Jon Augusta of Niles,Oh and Fred Lederer of Perrysburg, Oh. Both anglers had38.00 �s.

David Hammond of Chillicothe Oh with 3 fish totaling 108.5inches won the most released plaque with four muskiescaught, totaling 136.00-inches.

Here are the listing of all the muskies caught.

Jason Augusta of Niles Oh. with a 41.25 �.

George Kourkounakis of Dover Oh. with a 40.00 �.

Fred Lederer of Perrysburg, Oh. with a 38.00 �.

Jon Augusta of Niles, Oh with a 38.00,34.00 �.

David Hammond of Chillicothe, Oh –37.00, 36.00, 35.50

Harley Kirkingburg of Newark, OH –37.00 inch

Jeff Matzell of Greenville PA – 36.00 inch

2009 Open Summer Contest Results — July 13th & 14th 2009

New Banquet Site for 2010By Fred Lederer OHMC President

After much thought, the Board of Trustees has decided tomove the location for the OHMC Annual Awards Banquet to beheld in March of 2010. After many years at Zanesville, we decid-ed it was time for a change. We hope that you and your familieswill find the new facilities more pleasant, upscale, and offer moreopportunities for fun. Hopefully this new change will appeal toyou to bring your entire family. The new facility for 2010 will beCherry Valley Lodge in Newark, Ohio. Newark is about 30 milesto the West of the Zanesville Ramada Inn, so location is very sim-ilar to years in the past. A private survey was conducted on ourmessage board but very little participation was offered up by themembers. After a month, only 10 people participated in the sur-vey while only even 65 read the questions. By comparison twiceas many people read a post entitled “Happy Holidays” or simply“Email”. I was very surprised how poor of a response we actuallygot from the survey. After talking to the trustees, six of them hadparticipated in the survey which means only four membersoffered their opinions. We really wanted to hear your thoughts onthis. So, the Board made the decision on this matter yet still con-sidered the information from the survey. And now what the newbanquet facility will be like.

Cherry Valley Lodge (www.cherryvalleylodge.com), in addi-tion to offering the basics that we need, like a banquet facilityand meeting room, also offers some world class food at a reason-able price. Unfortunately it will not be a buffet as the price didnot fall within our budget. Prices for a buffet would increase thebanquet price to around $45 per adult, but if the members feeldifferently about this, we are willing to listen. All meals for 2010will be the same for adults and will be a sit down dinner. Mean-ing someone will bring your food to you. The actual meal will bedecided by the Board at our next Board meeting in November. Atthis time we estimate the meals to be around $30 per adult.Slightly more than the previous $25 at Zanesville Ramada Innfor the 2009 banquet (Ramada Inn also wanted a 38% priceincrease for 2009). But here is where a big difference comes into

place. Younger members of your family will get a discount,almost half the price of an adult meal at Cherry Valley Lodge.Very young members of your family may purchase a cheeseburger or chicken tender meal for a much reduced price com-pared to paying the full price for a meal as in the past, about $10.Cherry Valley Lodge is more expensive on their rooms comparedto the Ramada Inn but in line with most decent hotel chainsacross the state. Attendees reserving a room at the Lodge willfind they are offering a discount for the event from their normalprices. Each room is very clean and comfortable with modernamenities like a plasma TV. They have several room styles to fityour needs. They have a nice stocked pond to walk around (sorryguys no muskie or fishing in general), a rustic stone fireplace inthe lobby, a very nice restaurant, but is quite upscale. There is aday spa that the wives may find especially appealing and a fullservice lounge near the banquet hall to enjoy time with friendsduring our social hour, between the business meeting and thebanquet.

Oh yea, they also have another amenity that may appeal toyour family, like an onsite water park! I’m talking water slides,pools, a lazy river, a supervised area for the younger kids, alounge inside the water park for the adults. And the Lodge is alsooffering OHMC members a $5 discount off their normal waterpark admission price of $20 in addition to the room discount forthose that may want to make the banquet a nice weekend getaway.

I visited Cherry Valley Lodge in April to check out the facilityand was very impressed by the friendly staff, coordination of the3 weddings taking place on the same day, the food quality, thecleanliness of the water park and rooms. It was overall a very niceexperience and I hope that the membership finds this an excitingnew change for our banquet. Some of the details still need to beworked out and full details will be in the February newsletter asusual. I hope to see a lot of new faces at the 2010 banquet. I alsoencourage you to visit their website to see photos of what you canexpect at Cherry Valley Lodge.

OHMC 50th AnniversaryBy Fred Lederer OHMC President

For those of you that may not be aware, OHMC will soon becelebrating it’s 50th anniversary in 2011. That is quite a mile-stone for a group such as ours. Something else to take pride in,is that as best we can find out, OHMC is the second oldestMuskie club still in existence, in the United States. We have onlyfound one other club, The Wisconsin Musky Club that is olderthan OHMC. They were founded in 1953 as opposed to OHMCbeing founded in 1961. Some things to keep an eye out for willbe some special 50th anniversary items available from our list ofclub merchandise items. If you have any suggestions for these50th Anniversary items, let me know and the Board of Trusteeswill consider what items will be best for the club at our Novem-ber meeting.

Another way we would like to celebrate the event is to have a“memory lane” of older OHMC items, memorabilia, photos, tro-

phies and such to have on display at the 2011 Banquet. Severalmembers have already donated or loaned us items from theiryears of membership with OHMC. We will accept just aboutanything of interest, related to the club, musky stocking, ormusky hatchery program. We will carefully handle your originalitems you wish to loan to the club and we will be equally happyto accept any duplications you could offer us for the event. Soplease take a little time and see what you might have in your tro-phy room or file drawer at home, talk to your parents or grand-parents that may have gotten you started musky fishing in thefirst place. Anyone wishing to help us with items for this displayplease contact me so I can start putting together a list of items sothat we can avoid duplications. Let’s see what kind of interestingitems we all can come up with and then piece together a real nicewalk down memory lane thru “50 years of hunting 50 inchers!”

JULY–OCTOBER CALENDAR OF EVENTSClub Name Event Name Where FEE contact

SEPTEMBER12th Akron/Canton Muskie Inc. #19 Memorial Outing West Branch-East ramp none Gordon Seldon 330-874-277326th 27th O.H.M.C. Fall Outing/Steak Fry Alum Creek $5.00 Fred Lederer 419-874-4929OCTOBER3rd Akron/Canton Muskie Inc. #19 Leesville Open Leesville Lake-South ramp $12.00 Gordon Seldon 330-874-2773

Fred Lederer — PresidentOhio Huskie Muskie Club, Inc.10327 N. Bramblewood RoadPerrysburg, Ohio 43551

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2009 NITE BITEBy Paul Anderson OHMC Trustee

The annual OHMC Nite Bite was held August 15th & 16th,2009 at Leesville Lake. The water temperature was 83 degrees.The air temperature was 90 degrees to start the event at 6:00 PMSaturday evening and dropped to 65 degrees just before sunriseon Sunday morning. It was a cloudless night and with the starsshining brightly it was a beautiful evening to be on the water.There were 27 anglers whom fished the event and there were 4muskies caught and released. We had no Huskie Muskies caughtand the fishing was slow for all but a few anglers. Even with thetough fishing, everyone had an enjoyable event.

Thanks to those club members who helped make the event asuccess, Jerry Rice, Jeff Ferjuitz, and Dave Hammond. Thewinner of the 50/50 raffle ($27.50) was Gordon Seldon ofBolivar, Ohio.

Congratulations to our winner Dennis Braun of Vermillion,Ohio. Dennis caught a 38” Muskie to take the win. There was alsoa Big Fish pot of $95, which was awarded to Dennis at the ramp.He generously donated $40 of his winnings to the OHMC gener-

al fund. His trophy will be awarded at our annual banquet to beheld in March of 2010.

Dave Hammond of Chillicothe, Ohio continued his strangle-hold on the lead for overall fish caught during club events bylanding a 32” muskie. With only one event remaining for 2009,someone will need to bring their A-game to Alum Creek for theFall Outing to have any chance of catching him. In addition, Davelanded a nice 27”, 7 pound, Saugeye for the cooler.

The following is the list of anglers and their muskies caughtat the 2009 Nite Bite.

Dennis Braun of Vermillion Oh 38.00 inch (First PlaceWinner)

Sly Sylvester Trunkett of North Ridgeville Oh 35.50 inch

Chuck Harmon of Akron Oh 33.50 inch

Dave Hammond of Chillicothe Oh 32.00 inch