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Michiana Walleye Association
August/September 2012
President's Corner 2012 Kids Fishing Derby
Angie Kintigh
Rick Nichols
Our annual Perch Derby was held July 21 on Lake Saturday, August 4th, we had a great day for fishing! We
Michigan in New Buffalo. We were greeted by calm held our Annual Kids Fishing Derby in our club pond, with
seas and beautiful weather. We had 13 boats and 30 kids from age 4 to 13 participating.
fishermen sign up for the event, hoping to catch that
hog perch. We fished from 8am-2pm. To make a long The weather was wonderful: sunny the whole day. There
story short, the hogs were nowhere to be found. were a total of 88 fish caught.
Everyone struggled to catch a keeper, much less a hog. The kids participated in a casting contest and fishing on the
Boats were zooming up the coast and down the coast pond for one hour. Everyone did an amazing job!
trying to find biting fish; we marked fish everywhere, but
couldn’t get the big ones to bite. The results are as I am so thankful to all of our wonderful members who
follows: volunteered their time to help me out that day. Thank you
1st Place - Dan Haddock: 11-3/4 in. $ 90. very much.
2nd Place - Rick Nichols & Dale Brinley: 11-5/8 in. $40.
Side Pot - Rick Nichols & Dale Brinley: 11-5/8 in. $115. A special thanks to Jeannie Biewer and Randy Hamilton for
all their help fundraising this year and for helping me
No, that isn’t a mistake: Dan didn’t get in the side pot – bunches the day of the event. Also a thank you to Mason
Thanks, Dan! Kintigh for taking pictures for us the day of the event.
At the August monthly meeting we presented a check Thanks to these members and companies for their
for $500 to this year's scholarship winner, John Starr. donations:
John will attend Vincennes University in the fall. John’s Steve Coffinger from Bunny Bread for the hot dog
goal is to be a conservation officer. buns
Cabelas for donating a rod and reel combo for each
August is the month that the Pack-a-Backpack program child to take home
for school children takes place. As a part of our Del Taco for donating a free kids meal for each
commitment to the scholarship program, we chose the child
Back Pack program to aid needy children in our The South Bend Silver Hawks for donating 4 sets of
community. We set aside $300 from scholarship raffle tickets
ticket sales to fund this. This year we delivered the Performance Plus Co. for donating 4 sets of Silver
following items: 22 backpacks, 82 spiral notebooks, 58 Hawks tickets and parking passes
packs of notebook paper, 30 packs of pencils,20 boxes Chuck E Cheese for donating family gift packs
of Crayons, 20 rulers, and 20 packs of glue sticks. Randy Gaines for making bobbers for the fishing
Rick rods the kids used in the fishing derby.
Angie Kintigh
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
1 President's Corner, 2012 Kids Fishing Derby
2 Calendar of Events, Membership Application
3 Lake Maxinkuckee Tournament Results
4 Officers Directory
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
AUGUST 18 - MWA CABELAS TOURNAMENT
W INONA LAKE - W ARSAW IN/
7AM-3PM
AUGUST 26 - MWA / PNA CHALLENGE
SEPTEMBER 8 MWA FALL CLASSIC TBA
SEPTEMBER 8 - MONTHLY MEETING
MWA CLUBHOUSE
There have been some requests by
6:30PM
SEPTEMBER 9 - MWA FALL CLASSIC TBA some new and old members about
OCTOBER 13 - MWA MONTHLY MEETING having workshops regarding
Ron Hipsher presents a check for $500
MWA CLUBHOUSE to this year's scholarship winner, John Starr.
6:30PM John will attend Vincennes fishing for
various methods for University in the fall.
OCTOBER 27 - MWA HALLOWEEN PARTY John’s goal is to area lakes officer.
walleyes on ourbe a conservationand
NOVEMBER 10 - MWA MONTHLY MEETING
rivers. So beginning in August we
MWA CLUBHOUSE
6:30PM will have one after the monthly
NOVEMBER 17 - MWA ANNUAL BANQUET meeting and see how it goes. I’m
DECEMBER 8 MWA CHRISTMAS PARTY
6:30PM
not sure what the 1st topic will be
yet so I guess you’ll have to come to
the meeting and see.
Support The MWA Rick
Your 2011-12 annual membership expired on March 31.
Dues for the 2012-13 program year were payable by
April 1.
"I love to fish because it is totally
Take a minute now to renew your single or family
membership by filling out the application below. Enclose relaxing. I love the water. I can
your check and mail to (or drop off at) the clubhouse: concentrate and forget all my worries.
I count my blessings while fishing."
MICHIANA WALLEYE ASSOCIATION
13040 DAY ROAD
- George H.W. Bush
MISHAWAKA, IN 46545
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Lake Maxinkuckee Tournament Results
Our fourth event of the season took place Saturday, July 28 on Lake Maxinkuckee in Culver. There were 15 boats
entered. The weather was a little breezy, but all in all it was a beautiful day on the water. The bite turned out to be a
tricky one, with just 13 fish brought to the scales; 5 of those belonged to the winning team.
The next & final stop for the MWA will be Saturday August 18 at Winona Lake in Warsaw. We will launch from the
fairgrounds; teams are reminded that they will need to bring $5 for the launch fee. Hope to see many teams
participate.
The standings for Maxi are as follows:
3rd place with 1 fish at 2.50 lbs - Les Bontrager & Shawn Blosser
2nd place with 2 fish at 3.78 lbs - Don Shelton & Barry Ukele
1st place with 5 fish at 8.79 - Ed Szymczak & Stephen Szymczak
Big Fish of the day went to Les Bontrager & Shawn Blosser.
Thank you to all the teams that came out. Nice job to the top teams for a job well done.
Shawn
2012 Michiana Walleye Association's Angler's Challenge
BIG DEAD
EVENT BOAT CAPTAIN ANGLER BASKET FISH TOTAL FISH FINAL
STANDING NUMBER NAME NAME SIZE WEIGHT WEIGHT -.25# per WEIGHT
Steven
1 1 Ed Szymczak Szymczak 5 2.31 8.79 0 8.79
2 10 Barry Ukele Don Shelton 2 1.83 3.78 0 3.78
3 9 Les Bontrager Shawn Blosser 1 2.5 2.5 0 2.5
4 6 Scott Pealer Rocky Enfield 1 1.94 1.94 0 1.94
5 5 Jim Hough Harley Hough 1 1.52 1.52 0 1.52
6 8 Craig Anderson Ted Leach 1 1.24 1.24 0 1.24
7 2 Daniel Trzepacz Donald Moore 1 0.91 0.91 0 0.91
8 3 Shawn Kintigh Doug Burkhead 1 1.02 1.02 1 0.77
9 4 Dave Hayes Adam Hayes 0 0 0 0 0
10 7 Jim Molnar Jr. Jim Molnar Sr. 0 0 0 0 0
11 11 Randy Hamilton Dean Cates 0 0 0 0 0
12 12 Charles VanCamp Jeff Guerra 0 0 0 0 0
13 13 Danny Hanna Doug Hanna Jr. 0 0 0 0 0
14 14 Jay Walter Daniel Atkinson 0 0 0 0 0
Clarence Mike
15 15 Beauchamp Beauchamp 0 0 0 0 0
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Michiana Walleye Association WANTED: ALUMINUM
OFFICERS The club is looking for aluminum. If you have any
President unwanted aluminum that you would like to donate to
Rick Nichols (219) 712-1369
the club, please drop it off at the club grounds after
Vice President 5pm on any Tuesday. Proceeds from the sale of your
Don Shelton (574) 532-3271
aluminum are used to help support our walleye
Treasurer stocking efforts, and we thank you.
Ron Hipsher (574) 274-4200
Secretary
Barry Ukele (574) 259-6212
Sergeant At Arms
Carl Schnaible (574) 259-6256
Building Superintendent
Les Bontrager (574) 202-4413
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Les Bontrager (574) 202-4413
Barry Ukele (574) 259-6212
Don Shelton (574) 532-3271
Rick Nichols (219) 712-1369
Carl Schnaible (574) 259-6256
Scott Pealer (574) 875-1490
John Olesen (574) 286-5775
Bob Stutzman (574) 259-9284
Michiana Walleye Michiana Walleye Pledge
Association
To preserve and to protect our
waterways and fish therein,
To provide a future for
generations yet to come,
13040 Day Rd. To educate those generations
Mishawaka, IN 46545 so that this tradition may be
(574) 299-6839 carried on.
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