Muskies Inc. Colorado Chapter

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About Colorado Muskies Inc.

If you like Muskie Fishing....You need to belong in Muskies, Inc.

Welcome to Colorado Chapter #44
Muskie’s Inc International has several memberships to offer, Regular 1year @ $35.00. Regular Junior Membership $20.00 and Family Membership @$47.50. As a member you will receive 12 issues of our magazine called the MUSKI, the official publication of our organization., A yearly calendar with all sorts of information in it. Also as a member you will have access to our web site www.muskiesinc.org Home Page, Magazine, Members only and Committees. Just a ton of information here, forum boards, the lunge log with over 200,000.00 fish released, record of every person who caught Muskies, size, time, lure, color, kind of bait, lake , structure ,weather ect.

At the chapter level you are invited to a general monthly meeting held the second Tuesday of the month. We encouraged you to run for positions on the board of directors which meets every last Thursday of the month. You will receive a bimonthly News Letter on what is happening in the chapter.

We as a chapter have several events planed throughout the year.

The first being our annual Fund Raising Banquet, held in March, this is very important to us, it raises money to support the projects we take on throughout the year.

Next our Kids Fishing Clinic, held on Wednesday night, before the Kids Fishing Derby, held on the first Saturday of June. It is a free day fishing in Colorado a license is not needed. This is a great event for us and we have 1,500 kids fishing at several locations.

We set up four outings fishing for Muskie , and one for Northern Pike. Please see information on web on these events. A little preview we all come in for a lunch break at 1PM it is furnished by the tournament committee and is included in your entry fee of $15.00. This is a welcome break and a lot of information is exchanged here on what is working. All fish caught are measured and released. Who ever has the most points at end of year from fish caught in these tournaments gets a gift certifies first place $500.00 2nd place $300.00 and Third place $200. see you on the water.

Summer Picnic held in July.

Our annual Christmas Party held in December at our general meeting. This is a fun event with all members brining a dish for a pot luck dinner and a $10.00 value gift to exchange. A lot of fish stories are told here along with pictures to prove it. Just a great time for everyone, try to attend.
Information on stocking of reservoirs, ponds here in Colorado.

Free seminars on fishing for the Muskie

In closing please contact me if I can be of any help answering questions you may have , and please join our organization .

Muskies, Inc. is a 7000 b member organization with 47 chapters in fifteen states. Muskie inc. first espoused the " catch and Release' ethic and for the last 35 years has proved the value of releasing a healthy fish back to the water. Today Muskie Inc. members have released over 140,600 healthy muskies.

Purpose of Muskies, Inc.

To promote a high quality of Muskellunge sport fishery
To support selected conservation practices based on scientific merit and to
carried out by authorized federal and state agencies
To promote Muskellunge research
To establish hatcheries and rearing ponds and introduce the species into
suitable waters
To support the abatement of water pollution
To maintain records of habits, growth, and range of species
To disseminate Muskellunge information
To promote good fellowship and sportsmanship among men,women and
children

Check out our International website http://www.muskiesinc.org

History
Muskies, Inc. was founded December 9, 1966 by Gil Hamm, a 62 year old building contractor from St Paul, Minnesota. Gil and thirteen others, Gary Bennyhoff, Richard D. Hammond, Robert Farinacci, Maurice Hurley, Gerald Palmer, James Peterson, Wally Wilbert, Richard Chapman, Rodric Guindon, Charles Huver, Arnold Lindall, Harold Meir, and Eric Rehnwall made up the original members. The first Board of Directors meeting of Muskies, Inc. was held February 28, 1967, at Gil Hamm's office in St. Paul, Mn. Articles of incorporation had been filed and subsequently the I.R.S. granted Muskies, Inc. a non-profit exemption under Section 501(c) (3) of the I.R.S. Code.

Later, one of the Board members, Darrell Trumbauer owned a bait shop and a commercial minnow hatchery at Battle Lake, Minnesota. This facility was to become a Muskies, Inc. rearing pond for muskies and a stocking program that over the years exceeded a $1,000,000.00 in value to the Minnesota DNR. The efforts of Muskies, Inc. to raise muskies in these ponds continueduntil 1980 when the ponds were drained primarily due to increasing costs of operation and water quality. Over the years as many as six chapters of Muskies, Inc. have established rearing ponds. Their members have spent considerable efforts to raise muskies for stocking around the states.

In 1978 Muskies, Inc. went on a campaign to establish chapters around the area and Lany Ramsell established fourteen new chapters. The Board of Directors took Muskies, Inc. to a new level and became an International Organization. The first Chapter Challunge was held in Minocqua in October of 1977. The Illinois Muskie Hunters challenged all chapters to a tournament Fargo/Moorhead won the "Challunge"

In April of 1979 the Muskies, Inc. "Newsletter" took on the new format of a magazine.

In 1984 Muskies, Inc. in conjunction with the American Fisheries Society, put on an International Symposium on Muskellunge. World experts on the subject were brought together at one location to develop beneficial relationships and exchange ideas. The Symposium endeavored to emphasize trophy aspects for the species and to accent unique biological characteristics and attendant management problems. The papers presented and the proceedings were published in a hard bound 372 page book entitled "Managing Muskies". This was a major undertaking and there were literally thousands of hours of volunteer time committed to this Symposium.

1984 was a great year and a not so great year. The Symposium was a tribute to Muskies, Inc. but, on November 8th Gil Hamm passed away after a series of heart attacks.

The membership of Muskies, inc. has been active with tagging studies, negotiations with Indian spearing issues, youth fishing, involvement in Camp Fish, publishing an excellent magazine for the members, developing research projects, tabulating muskies released by members tournaments among member chapters, etc.

1991 was Muskies, Inc. 25th Anniversary year. The Saturday night Banquet was highlighted by the first ten persons to ever be inducted into the Muskies, Inc. Hall of Fame. Today Muskies, Inc. boasts 45 Chapters In 14 States and a membership exceeding 6,800. Although this historical review of Muskies, Inc. has been sketchy, suffice it to say that Muskies, Inc. has done considerable work in increasing the image of the muskellunge as a trophy sportfish and in particular in its conservation efforts to promote the "catch and release" philosophy among it's membership. Today Muskies, Inc is the premier muskie fishing organization in the world. This organization has become a b and resourceful partner of state conservation management departments in many of the states where muskies are found. Today there are 35 of the lower 48 states with muskie populations and muskie fisheries management programs being conducted by state DNR's.

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