Fishin' Tales - Detroit Area Steelheaders

Fishin’ TalesJanuary 2004Volume XXIX, Issue 1www.detroitsteelheaders.orgInside this Issue1234January MeetingElectionsNew MembersTournament ScheduleSportsmen’s DinnerCheck Your LabelDetroit Area Steelheaders, Inc.P.O. Box 1255Sterling Heights, Mi. 48311-1255January MEETINGThe January 27, 2004 Meeting will beheld at St. Pius K. of C. (our regularmeeting location).ELECTIONSAt the Christmas meetingelections were held for Directors ofthe Detroit Area Steelheaders.Elected to office were Jason Adams,Chris Miller, Bill Stanley, DwayneWelder, Ty Voigt and Chris Nytko.At the January Board of Directorsmeeting, officers were elected. Yournew Detroit Area SteelheadersPresident is Mark Bevens. ElectedVP is Mike Vigus. Your secretary for2004 is Linda Banbury and theTreasure is Steve Hamilton.Congratulations to all!NEW MEMBERDRIVE TO STARTIN JANUARYThe Detroit Area Steelheadershas announced a newmembership drive starting inJanuary, with an incentive forany new member to sign up.If your membership hasexpired prior to December2002, or you are a brand newmember signing up for the firsttime, you will receive apackage valued atapproximately $25.00. Thispackage will include; twoMichigan Squids or Flies, aDAS fishing towel, two DASdecals for your boat or truck, aDAS patch for your jacket orvest, and Michigan maps andbrochures. This is with a paid$25.00 one year membershipfee, or a $150.00 lifetimemembership fee. Not only isthis incentive a great reason tojoin the Detroit Area Steelheadersfor yourself, but alsofor your family as this is afamily membership.Following are some of thereasons why fisherman allover the state, and beyond arejoining the Detroit AreaSteelheaders Inc.*The Detroit AreaSteelheaders Inc. providesyou with a means of beingheard on issues affecting ourfisheries.*You receive 12 monthlyissues of “FISHING TALES”newsletter, among the finestpublished anywhere.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

January 2004*Organized events all yearlong, including boat trolling,river fishing, pier/surf fishing,and ice fishing tournaments,and seminars, held all over thestate.*Social events such as theannual Dinner Dance, the 5 thannual Wild GameSportsman Dinner, as well asa special Christmas meetingwith Salmon Claus for thekids.*Participation in public serviceevents such as the SpecialPeople Walleye outing, andthe River Crab SalmonStakes, to support worthycauses.*Donations to M.S.U. researchon fisheries, and donations tovarious sport fishingorganizations to supporthatcheries, as well as lawyerfees to help protect our fishingrights all over the state. In allmore than $22,000 has beendonated since we came intoexistence as a sport club.*This is our 30 th year inexistence as a sport fishingclub, and we have great guestspeakers lined up forupcoming meetings. Somewould include, reprepresentativesof theMichigan DNR, state fisheriesbiologist, and charter captains,who would all give us timelyinformation, and share theirpassions, as well as theirspecial areas of expertise.Also, question and answerperiods are held at aremonthly meetings, with the topskippers of our fishingtournaments, which are heldall over the state.*Camaraderie with your fellowmembers at the Knights ofColumbus hall in Warren.The K of C hall is located at6177 Chicago Rd. betweenVan Dyke and Mound Rdwhere Thirteen Mile andChicago Rd intersect. Ourmeetings are on the lastTuesday of the month, at 7:30in the evening.*You can fill out theapplication for membershipthat is in the newsletter, anddrop it in the mail, to our POBox, or better yet bring it toone of our monthly meetings,and join in on the fun of greatfishing ahead. We will alsohave a booth at the majorfishing shows. Look forwardto seeing you at one of theshows, or better yet at one ofour monthly meetings. Themembers of our club are whatmake us successful, andwithout YOU, it will be hard toreach our goals.See you at the next meeting,Tom Moores-MembershipDirector2004 Boat TrollingScheduleLexingtonClub Tournament4–24-2004Port Captain: Mark BevansSt. JoeClub Tournament5–01- 2004Port Captain: Joe VonGrabeGrand Haven (2-Day)Club Tournament5-22 & 5-23-2004Port Captain: Doug KarakasPort Austin (Team Doubles)Club Tournament6-05-2004Port Captain: BlazePewinskiSpecial People (ToledoBeach Marina, Monroe)Special People Tournament6-12-2004Port Captain: Doug KarakasFrankfortClub Tournament6-26-2004Port Captains: Bob JonesPort Austin (DAS Big FishQuest)Public MoneyTournament7-16 & 7-18-2004Fishermen’s Meeting7-16-2004Director: Mike VigusLudington (Ladies Day)Club Tournament8-07-2004Port Captain: Mike Vigus/BillDunkLudingtonClub Tournament8-14-2004Port Captain: Bob FeiselManisteeClub Tournament8- 28-2004Port Captain: Bob ParadiseHarbor BeachClub Tournament9-11-2004Port Captain: Chris NytkoRobert LewisWe are sad to report that longtime friend Bob Lewis passedaway in January. While many ofyou may not have met Bob, he isthe person responsible fortypesetting and printing of ourAnnual Issue and our summerissues of Fishin’ Tales.This is the reason that yourAnnual has been delayed. Bobwas a long time friend and will bemissed by many of us. Hisdedication and contributions tothe Club are many.Fifth AnnualSportsmen's DinnerThe Detroit Area Steelheaderswill be hosting our fifthSportsmen's Dinner onSaturday, March 6, 2004. Wewill be at the same location aslast year's highly acclaimed2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

dinner, at Salt River Golf ClubBanquette Center at 33633,23-Mile Road, New Baltimore;2.4 miles east of I-94 (Exit#243). This finely decoratedhall has large windowsproviding a wonderful view ofthe golf course. The doorswill open at 5 PM and thedinner begins promptly at6PM.This will be a traditionalsportsmen’s' dinner with agame menu, an impressivedisplay of taxidermy andraffles. We are fortunate tohave the same caterer whowill prepare five game entreessuch as pheasant, caribou,buffalo, etc. We will have thesame great raffles as lastyear. MICHI-GUN will againbe present providing choicesfor our biggest winners. Weexpect to have upwards of 90raffle prizes and hope to beatlast year's wildly successfulfundraiser.We expect to sell out the 325Detroit Area Steelheaders, Inc.P.O. Box 1255Sterling Heights Mi. 48311-1255ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTEDavailable seats. DO NOT BELEFT OUT! Tickets are thesame price as last year, $35each for the dinner includingpop and beer. A cash bar isavailable for other drinks.Dining tables seat ten andmay be reserved with advancepayment. We have nonsmokingand smoking areas.Tickets will be available at theJanuary 27th membershipmeeting and from anyDirector. Members pleasehelp your club's biggestfundraiser by selling sometickets, obtaining needed raffledonations and by attendingand having a great time.For more information, contactSteve Hamilton, DinnerChairman at (313) 881-3871or Tom Moores at (248) 634-5789Check Your LabelFish'n TalesDid you know that your mailinglabel includes the date yourmembership expires? If it’smarked yellow, you are expired(no; just your membership!)Don’t be disqualified from atournament because you forgot tore-up. See Tom Moores at theregular meeting or send yourcheck to the club post office box1255 listed below. Regularmemberships are still $25, Senior$10 and Lifetime $150.Non-Profit Org.US POSTAGEPAIDPERMIT NO.126SterlingHeights, Mi.MEETING NOTICE – PLEASE DO NOT DELAY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

January 2004Financialfor 2003SummaryFollowing is a brief summary ofthe Detroit Area Steelheadersfinancial information for 2003.Any questions should be directedto Steve Hamilton our Treasure.RevenueGame Dinner $27473Big Fish Quest 9,094Raffles 6,367Tournaments 4,456Dues 4,025Dinner Dance 1,946Merch. Sales 844TOTAL $54,205ExpenseGame Dinner $16,824Big Fish Quest 7,349Donations/ misc. 4,515Membership 4,038Tourn/Trophies 3,116Dinner Dance 2,408Raffles 1,525Insurance 1,189Director meetings 981Merchandise 784Newsletter* 364TOTAL $43,093Cash Flow $11,111*excludes Annual ($3,800)Shows for 2004The Detroit Area Steelheaderswill have a display at two showsin 2004. The first show will be atthe Gibralter Trade Center in MtClemens on February 20 -22.The second show will beOutdoorama in Novi at theExhibition Hall. MUCC hasshortened this show for 2004 andthe dates will be February 25 –29.Anyone who can help outmanning the display shouldcontact Bill Nutting at 586-772-5702 or see any Director at themeeting.DetroitAreaSteelheaders Donateto Hatchery ProjectThe Detroit Area Steelheadershave again shown that theysupport the fishery in many ways.The Board of Directors approveda $2500 donation to the OrsiniHatchery. This hatchery ismanaged by the Manistee CountySport fishing Association.The hatchery has been in need ofa backup generator to insure thesurvival of fingerlings when thereis a power shortage.Over the years your club hasdonated well in excess of $20,000to various projects.New Research BlowsAway MythsNew research conducted by theUSFWS station near Rogers Cityis blowing away many of themyths and concepts held bysalmon fisherman over the years.While primarily know for their sealamprey studies, the research thatis attracting all the attention is anew study using implanted microdevicesto track the depth andtemperature of salmon and laketrout.The Researchers first caughtsalmon North of Rogers City,surgically implanted them with themicro-devices, put two tags with800#s on them and released thefish.The first surprise was that the 4 of5 fish subsequently capturedagain by fisherman were caughtin rivers in Georgian Bay; notSwan Bay. Another was caughtin Wisconsin.However the most surprisingfindings were relative to thetracking of the depth and thetemperature of water that thesefish had been in.While I do not yet have the officialresults my observations of theraw data were startling.One of the questions we have allhad was “Where are the kings inthe Spring?” Many of us havespeculated that they were in theSouthern part of the lake andhadn’t migrated North.The data showed that kings canwinter in deep water. Several fishrecorded depths of 400 to 500feet down over the winter months.May showed a sharp rise to waterless than 100 feet. So maybethose fish were at your port butyou were fishing about 400 feettoo shallow?Another sample of data showedthat even during the summer,kings can make short termmigrations to very deep water.Some seemed to be in less than100 and then made a dailymigration to depths of 200 to 250feet of water; but not every day!So maybe that mark on yourgraph at 200 feet is a king!One of the more interestingfindings was of five fish that wereat about 54 degree water at 5 am.Some went deeper as the suncame up and others wentshallower. The amazing thingwas they were in order of sizewith the deepest fish being thelargest. Real? Of just “the roleof the dice?” Stay tuned.Bob Mitchell – El-Lin2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .