Our 2nd Tournament

Our April Meeting

We welcomed back an old member. Hookset Lou ( formerly Lunker Lou - the original one from 1998)We gave our annual PePe Lepew Award to a very deserving member.. (HA HA)  Our Lake Clinton awards were given out to a very special few !  1st place went to Minkotta Matt & Reel-n-Rich, 2nd went to senko pat fishing with Rat-l-Trap Rich and last but not least Topwater Ted fishing with Frenzy Frank. chec them out  Clinton Winners .They took home all the money. We had the draw for partners for our up coming Chicago Tournament.   Awards  

Our 1st Tournament

Annual Kick Off Dinner

2008 New Members openings

We are accepting new members for our 2008 season. We have a membership limit and once that is reached, membership closes until next year. So if your looking to join a fun and active club, now is the time to apply. We are looking for members that appreciate having a good time with friends and are not "BLOOD & GUTS" fishermen. We take our fishing serious but we have fun together. To get more information click here. We would love to have you--- Boater or Non-boater alike.
 

 Lake Geneva Tournament

 September found us fishing Lake Geneva for our last scheduled Tournament. The weather was really nice The lake had little traffic and the water was calm. The fish were not exactly jumping in the livewell but the day was almost perfect. We had a great turn out. Lucky Ron & Madman Mark took 1st, Minnkota Matt took 2nd with his fine catch fishing with Stickbait Nick and 3rd wasJig-n-Jeff fishing with Frenzy Frank, last but not least Tracker Jeff captured fourth fishing by himself.
Everyone was trying to qualify for the upcoming Classic at Lake St Clair. Some really quality fish were brought in. The morning bite was on surface plugs for some. In the afternoon the drop shots seemed to fair better. This Tournament had a couple of close Angler of the Year races going on for our boaters. Our non-boaters were battling for their Top Gun. Today decided those battles. Check out who caught what.
  Pictures  Results

WiniconneTournament

We held our Winiconnee Tournament on Saturday Augast 11. We had a nice but not full compliment attending. The fishing was off as bad weather passed through days before. Either that or quite a few of our members are just  lousy fishermen..???? On Saturday we had a fantastic steak dinner in Winniconies bet resturant. The trip was worth the meal Sunday we had a Buddy Tournament for those that stayed. Dogfish Dean won that one.& will collect the cash.                  Pictures  -  Results

Savanna Tournament

Well we finally had a real, real tough one on Ol Miss. The wind was high, the water was low, and we experianced a cold front. A bad day for many of our Club.It was Tracker Jeffs 1st win and he did it with the help of Madman Mark who is as hot as a pistol this year.  It did not take many fish to win this one.  But that's fishing.
Next time it will be better ...we hope. The Savanna    Pictures   Results

July Meeting

The meeting had been moved to July 10 due to the 4th of July Holiday. Awards were give to the Lake Wisconsin winners.Boy we had a good Chicago Tournament and a good Lake Winconsin experiance.. We had one of the largest creel catches inb our club's history.Bronzeback Dave & Lunker Lou brought in a helthy mixed bag of largemouths ands smallies. Madman Mark won the lunker pool with a 5.26 pound Largemouth and took the lunker pool og over $800. OPP's sorry now you wife will know. Now it is on the our annual Savanna on the Ol Miss. Always a great place to catch some lunkers. We added two new  members .Matzou Mike and Frenzy Frank..

Lake Wisconsin Tournament

Boy the weather could not have been nicer. Well maybe a few more clouds would have been nice. The Ttournament went well. Thw start went off smoothh thanks to Tin Can Tony's efforts. Most everyone caught fish. That was nice since this was our 1st time at Lake Wisconsin. It had Largemouth as well as Smallmouth Bass. Lots of fish were caught. I think I can say everyone had a good time. Sunday we had a Buddy Tournament for those that could stay over Pictures     Results.

Chicago Tournament

The weather was GREAT the winds were low & the sun was out. Some would call it a blue bird day... but it was nice.Most of the guys caught fish. Both largemouth as well some nice smallies. Jig-n-Jeff and Kastn Nick cleaned up with a stringer over 21 pounds.. Yes I said 21 Pounds.
But take a look at our day in the Shadow of Sears  Tower.... Pictures .... Results

June Meeting

June 5th

 We met , ate, drank,swaped lies and got the latest Club News. Then we had our Chain-o-Lakes awards. Brush Hog Brian & Frogzilla Frank took 1st place.... but heck go take a look a the meeting  We had our Pepe LePew draw from the guys that skunked. Youll never guess who got thr skunk flag? No not Bomber Brad.And oh yes we got a new "Lucky" in the club......?

 Chain-O-LakesTournament

Our 2nd Tournament was held on the Chain-O-Lakes. The weather was brutal. It was COLD, WET, and NASTY. However lot's of fish were caught. Many new members did well. Some Old salt members took a beating. Tin Can Tony did a hell of a job considering the conditions. The scale blew a board to complicate the matters. I think some heads got turned around and learned a lesson about the Chain. It was a diecent Tournament despitew the weather. Pictures and Results   

6- Man Tournament

May 5-6

Minkotta Matt led our best down to Mill Creek for the 6-Man tounament. The Boater team consisted of Minkatta Matt, Bronzeback Dave, Assassin  Andy, and Non-boaters Team, Bomer Brad, Madman Mark, Swivel Sven. We did not fare well ...lets leave it at that...! Next Year..Next Year...(We're also Cub's fans.)

 May Pre-fish

May 6

 Reel-n-Rich hosted Lucky Ron -  pre-fishing the Chain-o-Lakes. A picture is worth a tousand words. Remember this is the Chain in a higw east wind an a cold front.bla bla bla.  Pictures

May Meeting

May 1st

 We held our May meeting and gave out our annual Man of the Year Award to a very surprised member. pictures  The meeting went well. We gave out the awards to the Kentucky Lake winners. We spoke of and honored our 6 Man team going to the regionals representing us.   Good Luck guys. We drew for our upcoming Chain-o-Lakes Tournament. We will host 15 teams at this Tourney. This a invitational event the 1st of it's kind for us.

 Kentucky Lake Tournement
April 21-21

 Well the 1st Tournamentt of the year ...happened. It was the 1st time we all got to fish with our new members. I think we all had a good time. What a great group of guys..33 strong. Assasin Andy ran the show. He did a great job filling in for Tin Can Tony. We caught some nice fish we ate some great food and we drank some been to wash it all down. Mike Well's  Kentucky Dam Inn was a great host... rooms ...resturant ....BAR!  The picture and results an be gotten to by clicking on these links.  pictures ....  results .

 Culprit & Brushog outing
April 13

 Culprit Casey & brushog Brian broke the ice on this year at a secret pit of Brians.
They had a bag up day cathing a few handfulls of Bass. pictures

Annual Awards Dinner

We held our Annual Awards Dinner at the Wellington in Arlington Heights Il.Awards were given out for the past seasons outstanding anglers.  The Ladies received me outstanding Mario Tricosi Gift Certificates.We had a great meal a nice award presentation. After words we danced till all hours. That's how our Club works. But take a look...pictures

Kentucky Lake Meeting

April Meeting

The meeting went well. Alot of new faces since expanding. Lots of excitement for our 1st Tournament of the year.

New Members Meeting

March Meeting

Our 1st getogether of the year. Our new members came to this meeting to learn more about how we do things and what is expected of them. The meeting went well.

Classic Tournement
October

Kentucky Lake :   Another weather front once again came into bite this our final event of the year. The payout for 1st place was $2000 so everyone was up for this event.  We fished both Kentucky and Barkley lakes. Picture story to be posted soon.

Geneva  Tournament
Septmber

 Lake Geneva Wisconsin:  This event was a little different. We started the event in the dark looking for that great night fishing. The tournament was to run till noon so we got the best of both worlds. A night tournament bite and a early morning bite. The night held some fog and a little rain and had overcast sky's. Later the day cleared up a little to make it a multi-weather event. This was our final Schedule tournament for club bragging rights. Check out the picture story.  Picture story to be posted soon

Geneva Buddy  Tournament II
August 13th

Lake Geneva Wisconsin: The weather was great. Not to hot and not to humid. Four teams participated. Flip-n-Randy and his grandson, Terminator Tim and his Father, Sluggo Steve and his partner PePE LePew, and last but not least Lucky Ron & Bomber Brad. The morning started at 6AM. The lake was beautiful and traffic was not that heavy (Believe it or not ). At the end of the day we weighd in on the lake in front of the Linn Pier launch. Terminator Tim had high hope's as his dad had landed a toad. They also had a respectable 14 pound 4 ounce five fish boat limit. Flip-n-Randy had two fish. Then Bomber Brad pulled out his two Toads and Lucky Ron added his three fish to make a boat limit of five fish. Their limit weighed 16 pounds 6 ounces. This beat out Terminators Tims limit of 14 pounds 4 ounces. Money was passed to the winning team of Lucky Ron & Bomber Brad. Then we went to Culver's for the traditional bull session lunch. Great Day ... good times.
Click here to view the   pictures .

Prarie DuChein Tournament

Wisconsins portion of Ol Miss, This event started with some nice weather on Saturday. Fishing was tough due to weather fronts once again. Now Sunday rain and lightning postponed the event till 9:am. This shortened the days tournament by three hours.  A few nice limits came in. The Angler of the Year race tightened up. Check out the pictures. Despite the weather and conditions, We had a good time. Click here for the pictures  click here for the  results

Savanna Tournament
JULY 16

Ol Miss was good to us. This was a good one and a lot of fun to fish. Every member caught fish. Only on member did not weigh-in a keeper, but that's fishing. He will kill them next time because we are going back to good Ol Miss at Prarie Duchein Wis. Now this years Savanna Tournament had our very own Mudd Dogg Mike & Bomber Brad take 1st place honors. Wee-R-Russ got the lunker at 4.56 pounds and leads in the $ lunker pool $. The Top stringer was 14.62. Savanna is a great body of water. To see the clubs results click here. To see picture story pictures click here.

4th Annual
Fathers Day Tournament
 JUNE 18

Lake Geneva Wisconsin:Lake Geneva once again played hotst to this annual event. The weather did not work with us this year. The morning started with heavy rains every so often. The lake was all but deserted. Four teams braved the conditions. Sluggo steve teamed with his daughter & son pitted themselves against the teams of, Minkotta Matt and his Dad, Terminator Tim with his Dad, and Lucky Ron and his (for the day) adopted son Wee-r-Russ. Click Here to see the photos.

Madison Chain
Tournament
 JUNE 11

This was our third Tournament of the year. Lake Madison was spawned out early. the fish were still recovering. Saturday many that pre-fished did fairly well. But Saturday evening a cold front moved in. The wind whipped every so often and conditions were a little rough. However most every team weighed in fish. click here to see the photo show.

Madison Chain
Buddy Tournament
  JUNE 4

Again another great weather day . Lake Madison was our Buddy Tournament target. It was a Sunday and Three Boats made the haul. Culprit Casey & Tracker Vic , Lucky Ron & partner Wee-R-Russ, Mudd Dogg Mike and Jerkbait Jake all were game. Casey & Vik had about 8 fish, Miudd Ddogg and Jake had about five fish, Lucky & Wee-R had nine fish. It was a nice day. The stop at Hooters was not bad either..  To find out who won the pot and see the days adventures .... click here   

Memorial Day
Buddy Tournament
 MAY 30

 The weather this day was ...great. As the sun rose on Lake geneva it found a few of our members and their boats poised to go fishing for a big Bass. Lake Geneva is noted for it's big bass. This buddy tournament was for the big fish. The day was one with a clear sky and very an unseasonably warm tempature. Assanin Andy had a beautiful catch of both smallmouth & Largemouth. But Sluggo Steve took the cash with the biggest bass of the day.. but see the story   ....  click here

Chicago Tournament
MAY 13th 

 The weather was very iffy...but the tournament came off just fine. A bad cold front had settled in. We launched out of 95th street Park on Chicago's south side. The sky was heavy overcast. The air was heavy in moisture. the wind was out of the North. All bad conditions for Lake Michigan.  To see what happened go here... Click Here
 

 Chicago Pre-Fish

 Report:  Some interesting results...Assan Andy & Frogzillz Frak, Terminator Tim & Madman Mark,  Lucky Ron and Reel-n-Rich  all tried their hand at fishing the Chicago Lakefront ...with mixed results. Guys, please take a digital camera with you and e-mail us the shots. Otherwise it will always look like Lucky & his guest catch all the fish. (he always brings a camera). Click Here
 

Mark Twain Tournament
 APRIL 8- 9

Tournament report:We traveled together. The event was facing a very very cold front...darn! However the event went off well. We had a blast. Terminator Tim did a good job for his 1st Tornament as our TD. Go Here to see the photo story. Click Here|

Mark Twain Meeting

Our 1st Travel Tournament... MarkTwain Mo.  We are pumped... for this one.
See everyone at the meeting for the draw and a  great Raffle) Click Here

Clinton Buddy  Outing

Clinton Lake Buddy Tournament We had four boats try an early Buddy Tournament on good old Clinton Lake. Our Luck the power plant had been shut down for repairs. Frogzilla Frank w/ Lucky Ron matched up against Terminator Tim and his Dad, with Assasin Andy & Wee-R-Russ teaming up. Now Jig-n-Jeff went by himself so he could burn ogff 24 gallon of fuel in his new BASS CAT Glitter Glass Bass boat.  Cold water .. Clear sky's and a cold front... So how did we do?  to find out who won the Buddy Tournament pot... that Lucky Dog!   click here  

Braidwood Opener

Assasin Andy & Booyah Cory fished together, Wee-R-Russ teamed up with Lucky Ron and Minkotta Matt and Jerkbait Jake joined forces. Madman Mark hooked up with Bronzeback Dave... and the winner was..... Jerkbait Jake.

BB'n Arizona style

Arizona has just as Big a BB'es as we do This last January Lucky Ron traveled out west to fish a New Years Fishing Event on Lake Pleasent Arizona. He paired up with the Denny anderson, the Web Master of AZBASSZONE.com to fish a holiday Tournament. Boy they are just as big a BB's as we are.
Ron made the infamous $3 bet with Denny and got his ... well check this out..
 click here  however... Lucky did not skunk out click here  & here click here
 

Braidwood Opener
Buddy Tournament

We will have our 1st Buddy Tournament   This will just for fun in early March
See MOB for deails. This will be a dry run for our Tournament committee testing the equipment. Click Here

Welcome Abaord ...cont.

Well the membership is almost full ... only four spots left for 2006
 Welcome Cajun Jim, Swivel Sven, Ketch-m-Keith, Booyah cory, Assasin Andy, Wee-R-Russ, go here to see thier Mug's...............................  click here

Welcome Abaord

Well the membership is filling up quickly..........................
. Welcome Bronzeback Dave & Madd Dogg Mike, Frogzilla Frank

2006
Tournament Schedule

Tournament Schedule has been voted on see results here. click here
We are going to have a GREAT year . The schedule is awsome.  

JANUARY 2006

Arlington Park Fishing Show We were fortunate to be asked to particapate in the new show at Arlington Park January 6 thru 8th. We set up and met some great potential members. Casey, Lou Ron & Matt manned the booth  click here  
Mark Jeff Tony and Randy all manned the booth. To any of you we met Welcome to our home web site.

 CHRISTMAS BREAK
2005

Believe it or not.... Some members got to wet a line over the Holidays in different parts of the country. Some did well ....another did..ahhh a little better ..kinda  .... while one got schooled by a Sox fan  .... click here

 NOVEMBER 2005
No Meeting
Football season
Hunting season
Basketball Season
Family Time
Recruiting Season

Our Season has ended... enjoy the snow, ice and blowing winds ...
and have a Safe and Joyfull Holiday.    
See everyone in the spring.

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
Now's the time to sign up for 2006.
We have limited membership openings.

OCTOBER

Clinton Lake Buddy...  Minkotta Matt vs Terminator Tim and Madman Mark made this last minute trip. Weather scared off most of the teams but ....would'nt you know ...it was nice down there. Click Here

OCTOBER

"Sta-BIL" Buddy Tournament 10/30/2005  This was the final outting of the year for the club before putting the boats in storage.Click Here
We also fill our tanks with that engine saving additive Sta-Bil

OCTOBER
Meeting

 Gills Rock Fall Classic, We went to the tip of Green Bays Door County for our thire Classic Tournament. The weather was iffy but fishable. All Club Records were broken by a Team that had never seen the waters before. 52#'s + took this two day event Click Here for picture story.

SEPTEMBER

Casey gets Lucky Sunday labor day Culprit Casey & Lucky Ron buddied up for a trip on Lake Geneva. They fished from Sun up to Sun Down.... Fishing was tough but Casey got Lucky... Click Here to see what happened.

SEPTEMBER

IBF top 100 Chain-o-Lakes; Lucky Ron, Flip-n-Randy, Minkotta Matt, Sluggo Steve, Eagle Claw Arick all fished this challenging body of water in the height of the pleasure boating season YIKE's. The cream rose to the top... Sluggo Steve was our top rod...the rest of us did no do very well. Minkotta Matt qualified for the IBF Classic ..way to go Matt.

SEPTEMBER
Meeting

Meeting September 6th:

AUGUST

Test your Skills Tournament.....at this Buddy Tournament  we will only be able to use two types of lures. They are Crank Baits and Jigs only. This should be interesting....click here.

AUGUST

Mystery Tournament... We met at the T&A on the state line and drew from a hat to see what lake we were to fish. We had a guest fishing with us... after fishing with Lucky he will probably quit Bass Fishing. Steve is his name and bass fishing and bull s#@$#ing is his game.
To see what lake we fished and how we did..Click Here  

AUGUST

Ol Miss Pre-fish Minkotta matt and Jig-n-Jeff took a pre-fish trip August 25th to Pool 19. Heres the link to their days outting .... click here  

AUGUST
Meeting

August  meeting: we had our regular meeting to pay out to the $ to the Classic II winners. We announced our new "Theme Buddy Tournaments". They are:
Mystery Lake Tournament,
Mystery Lure Tournament,
STA-BIL End of the Year Tournament.
These were well recieved. They should be fun.
Awards were given out for winners of Classic II.
RAFFLE: we had a little different twist in our raffle that seemed lie fun. Alot of members got some nice gear..... Awards & Raffle photos

JULY   

Prarie Duchein Classic II tournament:The weather was almost perfect if you like sunbathing in the hot sun. Overall the weather was pleasent. The reive was very low...(as Ron found out $$ the hard way). The Motel was good, the food was good, the partying was good and the fishing was..well activel. However the size of the fish was on the small side. We caught plenty of fish. Just the majority of them were short.

All in all we had a blast..lots of laughs and BB'ing jokes were played on one another. To see the event 1st hand clickhere

JULY

 July 10th Prarie Duchein Prefish report...
From Madman Mark and Lucky Ron ... click Here

JULY

3th of July Buddy Mud  Tournament:  Sluggo Steve called for a light hearted Buddy Tournament on a obscure little lake in souther wisconsin. The only guys availale to fish were Lucky Ron & Madman Mark VS Frogzilla Fred and Sluggo Steve. This body of water was not what as expected. It seems in the dark and fog we went to the wrong lake by mistake....DAAA!l   !Photo Story.

JULY  
 Meeting

Meeting to choose the Prarie DuChien Tournament partners:
Good food, tall tales..and a whole buch of Bullshipping...!

 JUNE

 June 26 1st Annual Yute's vs Crusty's...Lake Geneva
Hook-m-Hank called a Buddy Tournament on Lake Geneva. The theme was for the top team combined scores to win the cash. However Hank being the preverted  sick individual he is called for a special theme  "Yute vs Crusty" .

It pitted the members under 40 agaist the guys over 40.  No imagine this. Your partner is a Yute and you're a Crusty. What do you do? To win the cash you have to combine your scores. But your partners score goes agaist your age grooups score...hum? Sick Hank...very Sick!
Anyway the day was beautiful however the fishing was slow. The lake had been sprayed to kill thee weeds. So this slowed the fishing like it always does.
Despite that fish were caught. Side bets were made and the day ended with some burgers and fries at Cluvers after wards. Photo Story

JUNE  2005

Sunday June 19 Lake Geneva Buddy Tournament. Lucky Ron called for this event, our 1st Lake Geneva Buddy Tournament. Sluggo Steve and his daughter were team1, Lunker Lou and Lucky Ron teamed up (no relation) Terminator Tim and his Dad made up team three, Jig-n-Jeff and his Dad mad up team four. We took off from LinnPier Lake Geneva in a clearing morning fog. The day was a beauty. We fished from 6:30 till 11:AM. A short but sweet day on a great body of water. It was only fitting that on Fathers day the team that won this 2nd annual Fathers day Tournament was....Photo Story.

JUNE  

Sunday June 6 Heidecke Buddy Trournament. Culprit Casey and Frogzilla Fred teamed up to kick some butts and win some cash. Terminator Tim and his Dad teamed up as well as Lucky Ron and Senko Scott, Madman Mark and Tracker Vic buddied up to fish this event. Weather was great.  We fished from 6AM to 2:PM. Afterwards we went to lunch and paid the  %$^%& off who won this Buddy Tournament.  click here for Photo Story . This was our 1st time on this body of water.

JUNE  
 Meeting

  Meeting to choose the Prarie DuChien Tournament partners:
More lies and fish tales were swapped and quite a few Beers were consumed...BURP!

IBF Top 100 Tournament Mississippi River : Minkotta Matt, Frogzilla Fred , Eaglaw Claw Arick, and few others fished this event. No pictures were taken.

MAY  
 Meeting

Meeting started at 6:45. This was a in between meeting. Our Kentucky Lake is over and our next big event is the Summer Classic in July. Till then we will host buddy tournaments, fish the 8 man and a few IBF top 100 Tournaments.
 Hank handed out the awards to the big winners. Here's the pictures Winners

APRIL

The Clinton Lake Top 100 was one of the coldest and toughest Tournaments we have ever fished in. There were three teams, Ron & Fred, Randy & Steve,  and Matt & Jeff. We died ...nuff sa

APRIL

Kentucky Lake Tournament The lake had risen over two feet in the two days prior to our 1st tournament day. The fished were confused.. But not as much as some of our members. The sun shone and the skys were clear for the most part. Water tempature was in the mid fifties to the low sixties. This was to be a late spring. This tournament belonged to the Rookies and a real Old Timer....ha ha!  We went , We fished and We had fun.
To see photo story        Click Here ..... Standings .....  

APRIL 2005
Meeting

 1st Tournament meeting . We are going to Kentucky Lake and it looks like the  spawn will be on! Cross your fingers.

2005
 MARCH
1st Meeting

 Annual Awards Meeting presentation meeting. A night to honor the top fishermen and special awards for outstanding members.
New Members introduction night meet the new members and a presentation to explaine our new clubs format and program.
Kentucky Lake Outing pre-view Fred will have information for our 1st exotic travel outting to beautiful Kentucky Lake.
Guest Speaker: IBF Top 100 Tournament Director will give us a overview and answer questions about  the Top 100 Tournament Trail.Click here