May 31st, 2007

The awards Banquet on April 29th was a good time. President Art, out did himself again in obtaining some excellent raffle prizes. Food and conversations was just great. Pictures can be seen in the photos section.

June's outing is next week

Spirit Lake, Taylor County
Time: When you can get there
Date Thursday June 7th

Art would like everyone to meet about 7 Pm near the island on Big Spirit.

April 15th, 2007

The Awards Banquet is April 28th at Molitor’s in Abbotsford. Cocktails are at 6 PM and dinner will be at 7 PM. There are no banquet tickets, food is ordered by an individual from the menu and paid to Molitor’s.

Raffle prizes have been coming in from various vendors. If you know someone who will donate, bring the donation to the banquet Art will appreciate the help. Raffle tickets will be $5 each, same as last year. Boat raffle tickets have been delivered to Mike Ehlers and will be available at the banquet.

Jeff Schierier, Fisheries Biologist, was able to make the meeting, since our weather was much better. He apologized for not being able to make it to the meeting the month before, but was snowed in like some of us. He was very informative and explained some of the lakes in the drainage work area. One example is how Butternut Lake in Price County has too many muskies. The fish are starting to not reach their potential, because of too many fish per acre.

Dues with Muskies Inc. of Wisconsin and Muskie Alliance of Wisconsin have been brought up to date.

I look forward to a good night of musky talk on April the 28th at the Banquet.

Talk about this meeting in the Message Boards.

Jason Schillinger
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February 4th, 2007

Our next meeting, March 1st, will have a speaker: DNR Fisheries Biologist: Jeff Scheirer.

President Klimpke attended the Spirit Lake Association meeting and received an update on the channel dredging. The amount for dredging the channel will be about $160,000, the state will pay $80,000 for the dredging if the Spirit Lake Association matches with their own $80,000. The association will be accepting contributions and pledges, and plan to hold a musky tournament next year with profit going toward the channel dredging.

The Gill Hamm Memorial Challenge will be on Lake Holcomb, June 13,14, and 15th of 2007. Each club is allowed teams of six members. Central Wisconsin is looking forward to producing one or two teams.

It was decided that we should do something about increasing the membership of our club. One idea, which is going to be attempted, is to put advertisements in the local newspaper.

We have also scheduled the boat for our boat raffle dates, see the Schedule for more details.

Talk about this meeting and ideas about how to increase memberships in the Message Boards.

Monica Schillinger
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January 30th, 2007

After pondering for awhile, I decided to change the look of the site. I did this to make the site look more professional and to challenge myself and learn new aspects of web design.

The different sections of the website can be accessed from either the left menu or the menu above, the message boards can be accessed above, on this page only. Also, the last update date is located at the bottom of the page, it will be changed every time I make an update somewhere within the site, there is also a counter at the bottom of the site that shows how many times this site is visited.

Make sure to refresh the site if you are noticing any visual problems, if that doesn't work feel free to Contact Me.

Discuss the new change in the Message Boards.

Hope you enjoy the new look,

Jared Jacobs

January 16th, 2007

The last Monday night meeting in a while was enjoyable with Art Anderson there to give us some helpful advise.

Tenative open date for the Muskie Alliance boat raffle, July 21st and the 28th at Gander Mountain in Wausau and the 29th at the Medford Car Show.

Outing Dates:

• June 7th, Spirit Lake
• July 12th, Rib Lake
• August 2nd, Lake Alexander

Art Anderson was our speaker at the meeting and he suggested that we read the strategic plan by Muskies Inc. International and make any constructive suggestions. He also suggested that everyone should attend their conservation congress meetings in their county and vote.

Schedule - Also, if you havn't noticed already, there is a new section to the website called schedule which you can get access to by clicking schedule on the left side, this area of the website contains the schedule of events for our club. It will be updated with any changes.

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December 14th, 2006

Information explaining how to work your way around this site is below this news post.

Now the minutes of our December 4th meeting.

The Awards Banquet will be on April 28th at Molitor's Supper Club, in Abbotsford, same as last year. Cocktails will start at 6:00PM with dinner starting at 7:00PM, mark this on your schedule, and remember to show up, we want to see you there. For our yearly attendance raffle at the banquet we’re going to change to a commemorative Suick as the prize.

Also, at the meeting we again discussed places at which we could sell raffle tickets for the boat. Some of the places were Medford Sport Show and Medford Car Show. Availability and dates are being checked for the car show, if we reach approval with the car club, the date will be the last Sunday in July, the 29th. Our next meeting on January 8th at Happy Joes in Medford will be our last Monday night meeting. Our big brother an Eagle River guide and Muskies Inc. apparel salesman, Art Anderson will be at the meeting to give us his humor and expertise. So lets have a good turn out, he comes a long way from Eagle River to do this for us.

Meetings will be changed to the first Thursday of the month. The Banquet at Molitors on April 28th will be considered as May’s meeting. June, July, and August are our outings, dates and places will be decided later.

Our award maker has been contacted about our ideas about the awards. The awards maker will be able to make the awards the way that Jason suggested. Before ordering awards Jim be contacting the multiple winners to work things out. This will help the club in awards costs.

Standings will be on the website from now on. Jim will do the final standings after the end of the year.

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December 13th, 2006

Welcome to the new website for the Central Wisconsin Musky Club. I discontinued sending news and pictures to Ron at Muskies Inc., because he stopped posting it, so for now on this will be the site where you can find the latest information on what is going on in Chapter 26.

On the left side you will find a menu with multiple choices.

Photo Album - Here you will find all the pictures that I could find. The pictures are seperated into different pages, by their category, you'll see how if you click photo album on the left, do so and check out the pictures.

About Us - This includes the history of how the club was started, driving directions to Happy Joes, and current club officers.

Old news - This page contains news from the past, past the date of news that is currently on this page, so if you can't find the News that you want on this page, you can click old news and you'll probably find it there.

Current Standings - This site contains the current standings of the members in the club that send in information about their releases, current standings are seperated into respectful divisions, an overall with totals and averages, and largest release.

Message boards - This link will direct you to a place where you can chat about current events or anything else, I'll be posting the meeting minutes in the boards allowing you to add to or discuss what went on at the meeting. So don't be afraid to speak your mind on the message boards. Post Away!

The last item on the list is a direct link to the Muskies Inc. website for your convience.

So once again I hope you enjoy the new site and if you want, talk about it in the Message Boards.

Jared Jacobs

November 10th, 2006

At the meeting of November 5th many things were discussed along with the election of new officer for the Central Wisconsin Musky Club. Musky Alliance was sent $25 for club membership. Tickets for the Boat Alliance raffle will cost $2 or 3 for $5. The places that the club is deciding on selling the tickets at are, the Medford Sport Show, Taylor County Dairy Breakfast, Marshfield Dairyfest, and Gander Mountain.

New Officers:

• President: Art Klimpke
• VP: Marty Schield
• Secretary: Jim Jacobs
• Treasurer: Jeff Mueller
• RVP: Gerry Bucholz

*Last Saturday of April will be the Awards Banquet at Moliter's in Abbotsford.
*December Meeting will be at 7:00 PM on December 4th, at Happy Joe's.

October 5th, 2006

At our September meeting we discussed the notice we received form the International Club which stated that they are thinking of taxing each chapter to fund the international chapter. We decided that our entire membership fee would go to the International Club, if this were to happen. That could be a hardship for a chapter like ours, but we will have to see what the International Club will decide.

It was also brought to our attention that our Big Brother Art Anderson is again responsible for sales of Muskies Inc. merchandise and that he will be coming to visit us during a winter meeting.

Congratulations on your first fish Karen!
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July 30th, 2006

The next meeting for Central Wisconsin is to be held at Lake Alexandria in Merrill, Wisconsin. Time as always is when you get there on Tuesday August 8th. An Update for the Rib Lake Outing is that only two Northerns were caught no muskies.

Hope to see you at Lake Alexandria.

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July 5th, 2006

Our next meeting is on the water at Rib Lake on Tuesday, July 11th. I haven't heard from anyone if they were at the Kleeba Challenger, so I have no results to provide. If anyone has any info please send them to Jim. Also please send him the results for the Rib Lake Outing since he will not be able to make it.

April 29, 2005

Meeting and banquet was on April 29th a very good time was had by all. Awards were handed out and thanks to Art we had some really nice door prizes handed out. I will try soon to get the plaques to those who were not able to attend the banquet. See the "Picture Album" to see the attendees.

Boat and week stay in Canada raffle tickets should be out soon and distributed to the members.

Our next meeting is at the Kleeba Challenge in June. I sent this info out earlier. Anyone who needs info please contact Jim.

Members Don Kempen and Jason Schillinger Finished 3rd in the Pentenwell PMTT in May.

July 28, 2005

We had about a 5 boat show up at the Spirit Lake outing. There was no 50 inch fish caught but DOC got a 37.5 “ Muskie, which is in the photo album.

Remember August 1st is the Merrill Outing on Lake Alexandra. If this is not the right date you will be notified. For those who may not know , your renewal notice comes in your Muskie INC. Magazine, so don’t go dumping out all the stuff before looking for it.

June 30th, 2005

June's Outing/Meeting was at the Kleeba Challenge. Art Klimpke caught the only musky at the tournament, being 31”, the musky gave the club 6th place.

The drawing for the Canadian stay was done. First place went to Jim Jacobs winning the trip, second to Mary Kay Ehlers winning the DVD player.

Jason Schillinger has caught his first 50" fish already and many other members have caught fish, the pictures are in the photo album.

The next outing is on Spirit Lake, July 11th, see you there.

June 1st, 2005

June Central Wisconsin meeting Will be at the Kleeba Challenge on Lake Holcomb, June 14th and June 16, good luck and have fun!!

Remember, get your tickets for the Canadian trip drawing in before the above dates. The drawing will be at the Kleeba challenge!!!

Also Mike Ehlers has caught his first large fish to start him off in the Masters with this 42" fish from Smoke Lake on May 31st, 2004.

May 2, 2005

May meeting was held on the 2nd of May. Chuck Brod came and gave a very good talk on trolling motor use and maintenance. Also, explained quite a bit of information about fishing reels.

The drawing for the yearly attendance was won by Jerry Bucholtz. He gets a new St. Croix rod.

A reminder that the money for the raffle tickets sold must be in before the second weekend of June. The drawing for the Canadian trip will be done at the Kleeba Challenge.

June meeting will be at the Kleeba challenge.

April 19th, 2005

The Awards Banquet was held at Molitor's in Abbotsford April 16, and fun was had by all. Check out the pictures section to see what went on.

2005 Results

1st Place Masters: Jason Schillinger
2nd Place Masters: Mike Ehlers

1st Place Mens: Dave Jonesi
2nd Place Mens: Marty Schield
3rd Place Mens: Don Kempden

1st Place Womans: Monica Schillinger
2nd Place Womans: Mary Kay Ehlers
3rd Place Womans: Patti Mortenson
4th Place Womans: Karla Klempke

1st Place Juniors: Jared Jacobs

Largest Release: 52" Garrett Shipman, Don Kempden