©2007 ST. CROIX ROD OUR PREMIER® MUSKY RODS HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY REVAMPED. IS STICKING WITH HIS MILLION-YEAR-OLDThe Musky DESIGN. WE SMELL OPPORTUNITY. When you’re built like a torpedo with a personality to match, evolution isn’t high on your to-do list. Who’s got the guts to mess around with King Musky? Not your average rod. No, what this fella needs is a tussle with a new Premier® musky rod. We completely re-engineered the blank, coaxing more strength, less weight and faster action out of the same premium SCII graphite. Then we fine-tuned 10 models to fish all the best lures including bucktails, jerkbaits, crankbaits and topwater. There’s no better rod for the money and no better way to handle a musky with an attitude. Which, last time we checked, was all of them. www.stcroixrods.com | Handcrafted in the USA | (800) 826-7042 NEW FOR 2007 – LEGEND TOURNAMENT MUSKY RODS. DIALED-IN, TECHNIQUE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE. PREMIER SERIES: PM79XXXHF. THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL MUSKY ROD! MUSKIE is published monthly and is the Official Publication of Muskies, Inc. International Office: Ron Groeschl, International Sec., 14257 Waters Edge Contents Trail, New Berlin, WI 53151. Ph: 888-710-8286. © Copyright 2007 by Muskies, Inc. All rights reserved. MUSKIE • VOL. 41, NO. 6 Departments 2 President’s Message, David Cates Features 3 Magazine Notes, Staff 7 Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus (VHSV), 4 Figure 8, Kevin Richards NEW Bill Barbee 5 International News, Staff 11 Lake Saint Clair–Frequently Asked Questions, 8 FCIS Boat Safety Mike Zainea 9 Lunge Log, Jim Bunch 14 Just Big Fish, Jim Murphy 10 Letters to the Editor 16 Chapters Tell of Their Activities At Spring Board, 21 Photo Contest, [Centerspread] Gordon Campbell 19 Meet the Kings of the Muskie World, Joe Bednar 24 As I See It, Jim Smith 20 Kids Remember, Juris Ozols 24 Index of Advertisers 25 Chapter News and Views 22 They Did It Again! Youth Muskie Weekend, Patricia Strutz 31 Muskie Tales, Bob Jennings 32 Member Photos, 29 MUSKIE, Eric Engbretson Gordon Campbell Join Muskies, Inc. ... Regular Membership: K 1 Year-$35.00 K 2 Years-$65.00 K 3 Years- $95.00 or give a membership Family Membership: K 1 Year-$47.50 K 2 Years-$90.00 K 3 Years-$132.50 as a gift. Junior Membership (Under 18): K $20.00 K For Muskie Research $________ Name _______________________________ Phone ________________ Name of Spouse_____________________________________________ Address____________________________________________________ Chapter Affiliation Choice Number _______________________________ (to find the number of the Chapter you wish to join, see the Chapter News & Views section) City & State_____________________________ Zip_________________ Junior Member(s) Date of Birth (DOB) Chapter Affiliation Choice Number _______________________________ Name ___________________________________ DOB ___________ (to find the number of the Chapter you wish to join, see the Chapter News & Views section) Old Address (for address change only) ___________________________ Name ___________________________________ DOB ___________ City & State ____________________________ Zip_________ Name ___________________________________ DOB ___________ My Membership # ______________ Expiration Date _______ Chapter Affiliation Choice Number _______________________________ Check One: K New Member K Renewal K Address Change K Gift MAIL TO MUSKIES, INC. 14257 Waters Edge Trail, New Berlin, WI, 53151 Email ________________________ K VISA K Discover 1-888-710-8286 Payment: K Check or K Credit Card: K AmEx K MasterCard Card # __ __ __ __- __ __ __ __- __ __ __ __- __ __ __ __ Exp. Date ____ /____ Signature ____________________________________________ www.muskiesinc.org June 2007.....MUSKIE 1 International Officers President, David Cates Phone: 574-457-3222 Email: [email protected] Vice President/Finances, Jim Beaty Phone: 618-235-6370 Email: [email protected] WOW! The Spring 2007 International Board Meeting was full of activity. The tone was Vice President/Research, Ken Karbon Phone: 303-688-4954 set the evening before the meeting when your Executive Committee conducted a lively Email: [email protected] discussion regarding our failure to blow our own horn adequately. The entire board addressed the issue as the first item of business. The most common response from attendees Vice President/Internal Affairs, Dick McPike Phone: 816-436-4909 was “Wow, I’ve been blown away”. No one had a full grasp of what each of the chapters were Email: [email protected] doing for youth, fisheries and research. Juris Ozols has put together a great two-page Vice President/Membership, Bob Timme summary of all this information in this month’s magazine. Check out pages 16 & 17; Phone: 715-462-3053 you’ll be amazed. Email: [email protected] The Strategic Planning Committee’s recommendation for altering our structure Vice President/Communications, Jack Moga received a generally favorable response, although attendees wanted more “meat on the Phone: 440-886-3926 bones”. As you may be aware, the Strategic Planning Committee has been at work for Email: [email protected] month’s seeking to revamp our organizational structure to make us more efficient. While Treasurer, Pete Barber their general ideas met with overwhelming favor, board members in attendance asked the Phone: 847-726-7267 Strategic Planning Committee to come forward with specific recommendations for an alter- Email: [email protected] ation of our structure. I expect a proposal for governance by district with a much smaller Members Only Fishing Contest, Jim Bunch International Board to be on the table at the Fall 2007 Meeting scheduled for Morrison, Phone: 715-723-8343 • Fax: 715-723-8354 Ontario. I fully expect Muskies, Inc. to be a lean, efficient, youth conservation in fisheries Email: [email protected] organization. New (and old) chair of the Strategic Planning Committee Steve Budnick and Web Master, Ron Groeschl the rest of the SPC have their work cut out for them. I am sure they are up to the task. Phone: 262-271-1002 No mention of the meeting would be complete without a thanks to the Central Ohio Email: [email protected] Chapter for their marvelous job in hosting the meeting. Thanks to Ross Wagner and Dan Int. Administrative Secretary, Ron Groeschl VanGorder for their tireless assistance. Special thanks also go to outgoing Vice-Presidents 14257 Waters Edge Trail, New Berlin, WI 53151 Jim Beaty, Ken Karbon, Bob Timme, and Dick McPike. If you don’t know, Jim Beaty was Phone: 888-710-8286 or 262-271-1002 responsible for shepherding us through some difficult financial times recently and putting Email: [email protected] us on a solid financial basis. Ken Karbon was responsible for creating relationships with corporate partners as well as instigating the Best of the Best tournament, each of which At Large Directors Term Expires improved our cash flow and assisted Jim B. in his roll. Bob Timme was a tireless worker on David Rautmann . .2008 behalf of Muskies, Inc. and is always among the first to volunteer his services when things Don Jahnke . .2008 need to get done. Dick McPike was responsible for a reduction in insurance costs to MI, sav- ing us significant dollars that can now be used for YFR. My thanks and the appreciation of David Cates . .2008 all of Muskies, Inc. goes to each of these individuals. Congratulations are also due to our Patricia Strutz . .2008 newly elected Vice-Presidents: Jim Shannon for fundraising, Vince Weirick for internal Karl Scherer . .2008 affairs, Dan Narsete for membership and marketing, Brad Waldera for fisheries and research, and last but not least, Jack Moga for communications. Dick McPike . .2009 Muskies, Inc. has much to grow on and yet much to do. Please continue to give of your Dan Narsete . .2009 time and efforts on behalf on the resource. See you on the water. O Diana Mindar . .2009 Jack Moga . .2009 Muskies, Inc. Past Presidents Brad Waldera . .2009 Gil Hamm Peter Hadley Jim Blaubach Ken Karbon . .2010 Edward T. Peterka Bob Schmidt Steve Budnik Jim Shannon . .2010 Robert Hill Larry Ramsell Jim Smith Bob Timme . .2010 Robert Shoop Lou Cook Paul Framsted Mark Johnson . .2010 Frank Schneider Keith Ogden Perry Smith Vince Weirick . .2010 Peter Hadley Bill Davis Greg Wells DuWayne Bakke Steve Statland Lou Cook John Hotle 2 MUSKIE.....June 2007 M ABOUT THE COVER MUSKIE Magazine Staff A G Rod Ramsell, Editor Emeritus At the April Muskies Inc. Spring A Keith Ogden, Editor Emeritus Board Meeting we started the day Z MANAGING EDITOR with introductions, as usual. But Jim Smith I N Phone: (623) 388-3225 this time President Cates had each E Email: [email protected] person talk about the things that ASSISTANT EDITOR N their chapter does that they were Juris Ozols Phone: (952) 921-6311 O proud of. The centerfold this Email: [email protected] T month captures those fascinating PHOTO EDITOR E statements. Gordon Campbell S Phone: (973) 208-8297 N Email: [email protected] Here on the cover you see pictures ADVERTISING MANAGER M Jim Smith documenting a sampling of those A 15045 W. Double Tree Way Muskies Inc. events: lake restora- Surprise, AZ 85374-8568 G tion, vet’s trout fishing pond, Phone: (623) 388-3225 A Email: [email protected] wheelchair outings, lake cleanups. Z PUBLICATIONS TECHNICAL MANAGER And particularly, you see pictures of kids. Virtually all the chapters I Sunray Printing Solutions, Inc. - Brenda Kirchner N 25123 22nd Ave. S. • St. Cloud, MN 56301-9189 talked about youth events. We do a lot of those. Muskies Inc. – E kids and fishing and much more. O Phone: 888-253-8808, ext. 133 MAGAZINE DESIGN N Sunray Printing Solutions, Inc. - John Windschitl O ILLUSTRATORS/CARTOONISTS T Richard Gross E FIELD EDITORS S BUY-SELL-TRADE Steve Budnik, Bob Chochola, James W. Colgan, Elizabeth Cratty, Adam Glickman, N Robert Jennings, Mike Kanaval, Colby Simms, MUSKIE Magazine has ad space available each month for MI Patricia Strutz, Vincent P.