TREASURER REPORT by Andy KaminskyAndy gave the treasurer report. To date we stand at beginning balance $5153.15 Income of $305.00. Expenses at $416.16 leaving a balance of $5041.99 in addition $12,500.05 from the Association.

NOVEMBER 21 ST BRUNCH INVITATION Sunday, November 21st will be our last business meeting of 2010. We will be serving a breakfast brunch to thank the Fishing Club members and volunteers for all of their efforts and support this year. Bring your spouse and kids or grandkids. We will have a special year-end raffle with lots of prizes for all ages. So please join us.

2011 NEW OFFICER ELECTION AND MESSAGE:

The 2010 Officer slate was re-elected for 2011, with Ed Matykiewicz and Andy Kaminsky swapping the Treasurer and the DNR roles. Many thanks to Ed for fulfilling the Treasurer’s job for the past seven years. Myself and all of the officers want to thank everyone for their support in 2010 and for a great year of activities. We are looking forward to another year of fun and fishing in 2011. Join us!

OFFICERSPresident – Tom Lydon

Cell (630) 776-1625tlydon44@gmail.com

Vice President Frank Seehoffer

(815) 485-2816

TreasurerAndy Kaminsky

Fund Raising- Angie Frazier

IDNR - Ed Matykiewicz

The next meeting is Sunday

JANUARY 17, 2010

Club meetings are held the third Sunday of each month (except for December) at the Shadow Lakes

Amenity Center. Meetings begin at 9 00:AM and free coffee is

provided.

The next meeting is Sunday

OCTOBER 17

Secretary / NewsletterMary Kaminskyfossil203@aol.com

www.sportsmanfishingclub.com

Club Mailing Address

Sportsman Fishing ClubShadow Lakes II

203 Fossil Cove LaneWilmington, IL. 60481

OCTOBER 2010

Winter meetings: Presentations and demonstrations!

This coming winter, we will return to some of the meeting activities that we began with last year. We are working on getting guest speakers on a variety of topics, including taxidermy (replicas) and local guides. We also plan to cover ice fishing, terminal tackle (bobbers, weights and hooks) and the in-depth use of certain lures and types of fishing, such a drop-shotting, wacky worming and any other requested topics that our members may suggest at the November meeting. So let us know what you want to learn about this winter.

WHY A CARP DERBY?

Our Carp Derby last month was a lot of fun and ended up with some great catches. You can see some of the pictures elsewhere in this issue. Several folks asked me why the club sponsored a Carp Derby. That’s a fair question. Here are some of my reasons for trying out this event.

- This past year in our underwater video, we saw hundreds of these 20 to 30 pound torpe-does swimming all over our Lakes.

- In talking to a lot of anglers about their catches, I would periodically hear about an individual accidentally catching a large Carp and how much they enjoyed the great fight.

- Several of our anglers fish specifically for carp and told meabout some great battles. Two of our Fish of the Month winners this summer were large Carp caught by anglers from Lighthouse Cove.

- I also recalled that many, many years ago, I fished in a Carp derby on the Chicago River. It was a blast with carp being caught as big as 50 to 60 pounds. Carp are a highly sought af-ter fish all over Europe.

Many anglers spend much of their lives trying to catch a fish over 20 pounds. Most Musky anglers fish a lifetime to catch one or two fish that big. So we decided to try a Carp Derby. We studied all of the latest Carp fishing techniques and chummed an area for seven days. Ask anyone who caught a fish that day and they will tell you what a battle they had. Netting a 30 pound fish was super, even though it tore up my net and bent the frame.

Additionally this past week, a report was made of a dead Carp in our Lakes that was at least four foot long and weighed in at about 80 or 90 pounds. I hope that this fish met its natural end. But imagine hooking into something that big. We feel that our anglers have an untapped resource in our Carp fishery, and we feel that we should explore every fishing opportunity offered in our waters. Carp fishing will give us some great fun and real challenges. The fish are already here in our lakes and cost us nothing additional to enjoy.

Our DNR representative said that we should return these Carp to the waters. He said they do not reproduce and the larger fish do not damage our fishery. So “Catch and Release” these monsters for some added angling fun.

At our October 17th meeting, we will review the latest carp techniques and equipment and includemuch of this information in an upcoming newsletter.

Here are the pictures of the winners and the delicious food that was served at the Carp Derby last month.

Apple Strudel Brats/Sauerkraut Pretzels

Frank Seehoffer

Carp King for 2010

Lisa Tullos

Carp Queen for 2010

Madison Tullos

Carp Princess for 2010

Peter Pappas gets his Albino Catfish!

Article for the October 2010 issue of “The Shadow Lakes Sportsman Fishing Club” newsletter:

Determined junior angler catches his “ALBINO CAT” For the last few weeks Peter Pappas, 12 years old, (above left) told everyone that he was going to catch one of Shadow Lakes legendary ALBINO CATFISH. Then on Saturday evening October 2nd after dark many folks heard Peter yelling all over Third Shadow Lake to get a net. He caught that ALBINO CAT, using a bait casting outfit with shrimp for bait on 20 pound test and no weights or bobber. After a little help Peter brought in the Albino that was about 26 inches and weighed about 9 pounds. See the picture above. This fish leads our “Fish of the Month” entries for October. Congratulations to Peter. See what a little angling persistence can do.

GUEST AUTHOR COLUMN:The following column on Red-ear fishing at Shadow Lakes was written by a new Club member, Mark Tullos, who joined us, along with his family for the Carp Derby.

In talking to Mark, he has graciously offered to help the Club with our video efforts this coming year and also offered to write fishing articles from time to time. Some of his previous written efforts were published in Fishing Pubs around the Midwest.

I felt that offering members the opportunity to share some of their fishing experience in articles could be fun this year. So any of you frustrated authors please feel free to submit articles to Mary Kaminsky or me at the email addresses on the front page of this newsletter or drop them off at the meetings or the office.

Redear Wrangling at Shadow Lakes By: Jon Mark Tullos

Fishing for our favorite species such as bass or walleye this past summer has been challenging at best due to the hot weather and intense sun. With the clear water on Big Shadow and many of the back water lakes, the fish spooked easily and spent the daylight hours hidden in weeds or in deep water. Anglers had to adjust their approach and target fish in heavy weeds or wait until dark to get bit. But one fish seemed to be available fairly consistently, the redear sunfish. Shadow Lakes has a great population of these “shell crackers” as their also known. The Sportsman Fishing Club has stocked them on a fairly regular basis providing a rich fishery.

Using ultra light tackle these fish put on a fight and will rival even bass with their battle. They like open water near or on the bottom in the ten to twelve foot range. I start out using a simple rig consisting of a red colored # 4 bait holder hook, two non-lead BB size split shots and a rocket bobber. I place the first split shot about 12 to 14 inches above the hook and the other 12 inches above that. The evenly spaced split shots keep the line from tangling during the cast. Also they provide just enough weight to allow the rocket bobber to stand straight up in the water. A small sized rocket bobber is ideal for this application. They allow you to cast a fairly light rig quite a distance. Using 4 to 6lbs test mono in clear or green has been my choice.

I cast the rig to likely spots just of the shore line where the bottom of the lake starts to flatten out. The bigger fish seem to hold in this pocket where the sloping shore meets the flat bottom. At times I will remove the bobber and drift the rig along this pocket touching bottom and then raising the rod slightly and then dropping it back down.

The key to my success has to be the bait. Trout worms seem to be the ideal meal for this fish and when they hit you can go through a lot of them. I like to hook them in an S shaped pattern with just the tail dangling off the barb. Shell crackers like to engulf the whole worm and using this bait hooking technique provides the opportunity to catch several on one worm. At times I will bend down the hook’s barb to allow for easier and faster release. I have found that I catch just as many with or without the barb.

The redear at Shadow Lakes reach good size and I have caught several that pushed close to a pound. They make great table fare served whole or filleted. Like all sunfish, served whole they have many small bones and it’s important to dine cautiously on them. It’s this reason many anglers chose to fillet them. Either way there is nothing like the taste of these fresh water fish deep fried and served with slaw and spaghetti.

The Harvest MoonIs the moon at or about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox. The

harvest moon is often mistaken for the modern day hunter's moon.

Appearance

All full moons rise around the time of sunset. In general the moon rises about 50 minutes later each day. As it moves in orbit around Earth, the Harvest Moon and Hunter's Moon are special because, around the time of these half moons, the time difference between moonrise on successive evenings is shorter than usual. This means that the moon rises approximately 30 minutes later from one night to the next, as seen from about 40 degrees N. or S. latitude. Thus, there is no long period of darkness between sunset and moonrise around the time following these full moons. In times past this feature of these autumn moons was said to help farmers working to bring in their crops (or, in the case of the Hunter's Moon, hunters tracking their prey). They could continue being productive by moonlight even after the sun had set. Hence the name Harvest Moon.

The reason for the shorter-than-usual rising time between successive moonrises around the time of the Harvest and Hunter's Moon is that the ecliptic—the plane of Earth's orbit around the sun—makes a narrow angle with respect to the horizon in the evening in autumn.

Times of appearance

The harvest moon comes soon before or soon after the autumnal equinox. It is simply the full moon closest to that equinox. About once every four years it occurs in October (in the northern hemisphere), depending on the cycles of the moon. Currently, the latest the harvest moon can occur is on October 7.

When the night of the harvest moon coincides with the night of the equinox, it is called a "Super Harvest Moon." In 2010 in the contiguous United States, the harvest moon happens in the early morning hours of Sept 23, only 5 1/2 hours after the autumnal equinox, creating the first Super Harvest Moon since 1991

Often, the harvest moon seems to be bigger or brighter or more colorful than other full moons. The warm color of the moon shortly after it rises is caused by light from the moon passing through a greater amount of atmospheric particles than when the moon is overhead. The atmosphere scatters the bluish component of moonlight (which is really reflected white light from the sun), but allows the reddish component of the light to travel a straighter path to one's eyes. Hence all celestial bodies look reddish when they are low in the sky.

The apparent larger size is because the brain perceives a low-hanging moon to be larger than one that's high in the sky. This is known as a moon illusion and it can be seen with any full moon.

It can also be seen with constellations; in other words, a constellation viewed low in the sky will appear bigger than when it is high in the sky.

Other names

The Harvest Moon is also known as the Wine Moon, the Singing Moon and the Elk Call Moon. In American myth and folklore the full moon of each month is given a name. There are many variations, but the following list gives the most widely known names in the modern US:

• January – Wolf moon [ Hunger moon, Old moon • February – Snow moon Ice moon • March – Worm moon Sap moon, Sugaring moon, Crow moon, Storm moon • April – Pink moon, Egg moon, Grass moon, Rain moon, Growing moon, Wind Moon • May – Flower moon, Planting moon, Milk moon, Hare moon • June – Strawberry moon, Rose moon, Honey moon, Mead moon • July – Buck moon Thunder moon, Deer moon, Hay moon • August – Sturgeon moon Corn moon, Fruit moon, Barley moon • September – Harvest moon Gypsy Moon • October – Hunter's moon • November – Beaver moon, Frosty moon, Snow moon • December – Cold moon, Long Night moon, Winter moon

The third full moon in a season with four full moons is called a blue moon, as described in the Maine Farmers' Almanac. Until recently it was commonly misunderstood that the second full moon in a month was the blue moon. However, it was recently discovered by Sky & Telescope magazine and reported on NPR that the interpretation of a blue moon as the second full moon of the month was erroneously reported in an issue of Sky & Telescope dating back to 1946 and then perpetuated by other media.

In modern usage, when a second full moon occurs during any calendar month, it is called a Blue moon In some cultures, individuals whose birthdays fall on or near a harvest moon must provide a feast for the rest of the community.

In popular culture

"Shine On, Harvest Moon" is the name of a popular early-1900s song credited to the married vaudeville team Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. "Harvest Moon", another song, was composed by Neil Young (1992). In film, "Another Harvest Moon" is a sensitive drama about four elderly Americans coping with life in a nursing home (2009). "Dancing at the Harvest Moon" was a made-for-TV film a story of first love rekindled, when 46-year-old Maggie McIntyre loses her husband to another woman and returns to The Harvest Moon, the dance hall where she worked in college (2002). The Internet Movie Database identifies more than a dozen "Harvest Moon" movies in the genres of horror, drama, romance, and musical. Also, "Harvest Moon" is a seasonal pumpkin flavored variety of wheat beer made by Blue Moon Brewing Company available in Autumn.

IDNR REQUIRES AN ILLINOIS FISHING LICENSE FOR ANYONE AGE 16 AND OVER

A TROUT STAMP IS ALSO REQUIRED

CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER MUST WEAR A PFD APPROVED LIFE JACKET / VEST ON ALL BOATS

FROM THE BY-LAWS PAGE 15 #2When a Member invites guests or relatives to fish in our lakes:

• The Member MUST be present with them or at the Member’s lot, or• The Member must give them written permission if the Member is not going to be present at HIS lot.• The Member may allow his contractor to fish ONLY from his lot, and the Member must be present.• Fishing Club recommended fish limits must be followed and the State of Illinois limits must not be

exceeded.FROM THE PROPERTY OWNERS GUIDE BOOK PAGE 10 #17

TRESPASSING – No person is allowed to enter another Member’s lot without permission from the Member. This includes fishing from the other Member’s Dock or allowing their children or guests to play

or swim from the other Member’s beach or dockFISH DAILY LIMIT SIZEBASS 6 14” BLUEGILL 0 0 CATFISH 0 0 CRAPPIE 10 0MUSKIE 1 52”TROUT 2 0 WALLEYE 2 14”

PLEASE PRACTICE CATCH

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