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Greetings!
Welcome to this month's newsletter!
This month's meeting we have Ben Olsen of Fishing Hard Core as our guest speaker. Ben is a guide that fishes 10-12 muskie tournaments a year. He's also a member of the IGFA, MI and the Minnesota Muskie Guide Association. His most recent TV appearance was on Keyes Outdoors where they were able to film an impressive 40lb plus muskie! Click the link below to check out his website.
http://www.fishinghardcore.com/
Hope to see you all there!
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2011 BLC Banquet
Location: The Brainerd Armory
Date: Saturday, March 12th
Time: 5:00pm Social - 6:30pm Buffet
Tickets: $40 each
If you purchase your ticket before Sunday, February 13th the price of the ticket is $30! So get your tickets now!
The $30 early bird tickets are selling fast! If you haven't gotten them now please do so. There's less than 2 weeks left on the reduced price!
For tickets contact Jeff at jyoung@brainerd.net or call 821-3669 or visit www.brainerdmuskies.com for a ticket order form.
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Banquet Donations Needed
As always our Banquet's success relies strongly on donations. We are asking your help to do what you can to assist in collecting donations. It can be a donation from your place of employment, a business you frequent or from people you know. The more the merrier! If your contact doesn't have anything to donate we of course accept cash donations. We then take that cash and purchase something great and label their business or name on that item for recognition.
Businesses that are generous enough to donate a minumum of $250 cash or $500 in retail items will be able to (once approved) advertise at the banquet with flyers, banners, etc. Everyone that does donate will be recognized!
Please contact Jeff at jyoung@brainerd.net or 821-3669 to discuss incentives and promotions.
One other incentive that we will once do again for people that are assisting with donations is free banquet tickets. For every $500 in cash or $1000 in donations raised you will receive a free Banquet ticket. All it takes is a few phone calls!
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Leech Lake 5 Mile Spawning Ground
Did you know that Leech Lake, in the heart of Minnesota's lake country, is one of the primary Muskie stocking resources in the country and a premier Muskie fishing destination?
In 2003, the Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation joined forces with the Minnesota DNR and Muskie fisherman across the Midwest to purchase 1,150 feet of privately owned wild shoreline on Five Mile Point of Leech Lake to protect one of seven known Muskie spawning areas on Leech Lake from the impacts of development. The Minnesota DNR now owns and manages this property as an aquatic management area (AMA).
An additional 200 feet of shoreline adjacent to the Five Mile Point AMA is threatened by development. Please help raise $50,000 to purchase this property--to become Five Mile Point 2 AMA---and insure continued quality Muskie fishing on Leech Lake and throughout the country for generations to come.
Your donation to the Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation is fully tax-deductible. It will be dedicated to the completion of the Five Mile Point 2 AMA Project and matched by the Minnesota Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) fund. Please donate today.
Click here for more info
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2011 Outing Schedule Dates Set
Our Tourney Director Brett Stark has this year's dates set. The lake locations are still in the works but will be locked up very soon.
February 20 (Sunday)
Tip Up Challunge
Upper Mission
11am - 3pm
April 30 (Saturday)
Crappie Outing
Gull Lake
8am - Noon
June 19 (Sunday)
June Clash
TBA
6am - 3pm
July 17 (Sunday)
Summer Slam
TBA
6am - 3pm
August 9 (Tuesday)
Big Dawg Challunge
TBA
5pm - 9pm
August 27 (Saturday)
Memorial Tournament
TBA
6am - 8pm
September 17 (Saturday)
Fall Showdown
TBA
Noon - 7:30pm
October 15 (Saturday)
Trophy Hunt
TBA
Noon - 6:30pm
November 19 (Saturday)
The Iceman
TBA
Noon - 5pm
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Youth Event
The BLC is again participating in the Baxter Elementary School Ice Fishing Day on February 21st. This event is put on by the Baxter School and the BLC is setting up a station for the kids to come and see some of the lures we use and ask questions about muskies. After a couple hours of the kids checking all the stations they head out to White Sand and test their skills on the ice and catch a fish or two. It's a great event for the kids at Baxter School to get a taste of fishing and the outdoors.
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