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2009 SOB News

SOB 2009 Lunker of the Months

Tournament News

The SOB's have been tearing up the PMTT tournament trail in 2009.  SOB father son team Ron & Rich Weidner are currently the PMTT Top Gun Team going into the PMTT Ranger Boats World Championship on the Madison Chain along with SOB teammates Bob Matusek & Rob Frechette who are currently in second place in the Top Gun standings.  These two SOB teams are the only PMTT teams who have placed in 3 out of the 4 qualifying events so far this year.  Also making the PMTT Ranger Boats World Championship are SOB teammates Nick Cammarta & Tom Olson who are currently in 5th place.  Lets wish them all some good SOB luck in the Championship.

Ron & Rich have placed 16th in the PMTT Cave Run, 8th in the PMTT Fox Chain & 7th in the PMTT St. Croix events.  Bob & Rob have placed 9th in the PMTT Fox Chain, 20th in the PMTT Eagle River & 8th in the PMTT St. Croix events.  Nick & Tom have placed 2nd in the PMTT Eagle River & 9th in the PMTT St. Croix events.

  Below are some of the fish they have caught in the PMTT events so far this year, including a nice 50" caught by Bob Matusek, his first 50" and a 49.5" caught by Tom Olson.

New changes to our Release Contest

We have some new changes to go over for 2009. First, we are breaking the fish submission releases into two main categories. Local & Non-Local, the Non-Local category will be apprised of any of our members who reside more than 100 miles driving distance from Antioch, IL. This new division will not be subdivided into other divisions, such as Juniors, Womens, Mens & Masters, it will just be categorized by the members name & fish caught by each member, also this new division will not be part of our clubs Release Contest. The reason for this also has to do with our next change. Plaques for our Release Contest will only be given out for the Local section and then only if you attend or make arrangements to have someone attend in your place at our Annual Awards Ceremony, which is held on the third Wednesday in April every year. Any member who will be awarded a plaque for that year’s Release Contest will be sent a letter in January informing them of the plaque they will be receiving that April. They will then have two weeks to contact the release chairman and let them know if they will be attending or will have someone attend in their place at the Awards Ceremony in order to receive their plaque. Anyone who does not respond will not receive their plaque. There are a couple reasons for these new changes. First is the cost of having the plaques made and then, if they are not picked up, having to mail them out or the hassle of arranging to drop them off, the other is out of fairness to the other club members who come to this Ceremony to show their support for the club. These new changes will begin with the 2009 Release Contest, but if you are going to be receiving a plaque for 2008, please show your support for the club and come to the Ceremony this April to receive your plaque in person. All old plaques will be mailed out or given to those members as time allows. These new changes do not affect Patches and Annual or Individual Certificates or for Muskies Inc. International fish submissions; they only apply to 1st thru 3rd place for Juniors, Womens, Mens & Masters Divisions along with Lunker of the Month & Fox Chain Lunker plaques for our own club Release Contest.

2008 SOB News

2008 Release Contest Winners

SOB 2008 Lunker of the Months

Tiger Musky Video

Our own SOB member Ben Modica put together a video of tiger muskies he has in a tank feeding.  Check it out it's pretty cool stuff.  Tiger's Feeding Video

SOB Outings on the Chain - 2008 Final Bob Matusek Winner
Any questions call Jim Stella @ 847-343-7221.
Remember anybody who comes to an Outing will fish, if you don't have a boat don't worry, we will match you with someone who does, that's an SOB promise.
See you on the water.

5/21/08
Bernie Loonsfoot - 41.5"

6/11/08
Nick Cammarata - 44.5"
Bob Matusek - 37" & 34.5"

7/16/08
Kathy Cammarata - 44"

8/20/08
Bob Matusek - 44"
Tim Wallies - 42" & 36"
Nick Cammarata - 38"
Scott Bjornson - 37.5"

9/17/08
Scott Bjornson - 37"
 

2008 SOB Tournament News

This year's tournament schedule has been good to the SOB's so far.  It started out in April with the PMTT Cave Run event where SOB's Rob Frechette & Nick Cammarata took 2nd Place with a 38" & 47" and SOB Jim Stella and his partner Ty Sennett took 8th Place with a 30" & 31 3/4", Jim also won the Ranger Cup Award.  Photos are posted below.

In the FRV Spring Challunge on the Fox Chain SOB Tim Wallies took 3rd with a 38 1/2", SOB's Ron Weidner & Dan Borak took 6th Place with a 36" and SOB's Nick & Kathy Cammarata took 10th Place with a 32 1/2".

In the PMTT Shelbyville event SOB Jim Stella took 6th Place with a 40" and SOB's Ron & Rich Weidner took 10th place with a 32 3/4".  Photos are posted below.

In the PMTT Eagle River event SOB's Ron & Rich Weidner took 4th place with a 39 1/4".  Photos are posted below.

In the PMTT Detroit River event SOB's Ron & Rich Weidner took 7th place with a 36 3/4".  Photos are posted below.

In the PMTT Ranger Boats World Championship SOB Jim Stella and his partner Ty Sennett took 3rd place with a 46", they also finished in 2nd place for the Top Gun Team of the Year standings.  Photos are posted below.

In the FRV Fall Challunge on the Fox Chain SOB Tim Wallies and his partner Matt Stevens took 4th with a 36", they also won the Challunge Series with a 3rd place finish in the Spring & a 4th place finish in the Fall tournaments.

SOB Annual Awards Presentation - 4/16/08

Our annual awards presentation will be held at our last indoor meeting on April 16, 2008 at the Moose Club in Antioch.  The awards presentation will begin at 7:30pm followed by our monthly speaker Rob Manthei - Northern WI Guide.  For those of you who who are not familiar with Rob, he's a regular writer for Esox Angler Magazine and also appears on The Next Bite Esox Angler TV show and John Gillespie’s Waters & Woods TV show.  So be sure to stop in, especially if you placed in 1st - 3rd place in your division or won Lunker Month, so you can receive your award.  See you there.

2007 SOB News

2007 Release Contest Winners

SOB 2007 Lunker of the Months

He Get's It; Twice

Here is a short story from SOB's Keith Eldrup about a fishing trip with his youngest son Jake.
Jake and I have been going to Green Bay Musky fishing for the past 2 years. The last 3 day trips this year we got skunked, except for 1 short fish. I was pretty dejected driving home from the last trip and Jake and I were talking. Jake said “it’s alright if we don’t catch anything, I like going anyway. The whole day is fun, driving up in the morning when it’s dark, getting breakfast at Mc D’s, the hot chocolate, the hand warmers and driving home. Besides we can’t catch one if we don’t go & can I bring my sleeping bag next time?” He really gets it!!

Well yesterday about 3:30 he got it. A beautiful 49’’ Musky, that he brought in by himself. A couple of quick photos and back she went!! The drive home was even better this time!!

Muskie Stocking on the Chain

The SOB's will be doing our annual Muskie Stocking on the Chain on Wednesday 11/14/07 at the Thirsty Turtle.  It should start around 10:30am.  All are welcome to come out and lend a hand.  It's a good time, so be sure to stop by and show your support for the SOB's and our Muskie Stocking program.  Any interested in breakfast, we will be meeting around 9am at The Squire restaurant in Antioch on the corner of Rt.173 & Rt. 83, all are welcome to join us for breakfast before hand if you want.  See you there!

Well, it was a great time, thanks to all those who showed up to help.  Below are some photos from the stocking.

SOB Outings on the Chain - Next up May of 2008. Any questions call Jim Stella @ 847-343-7221.
Remember anybody who comes to an Outing will fish, if you don't have a boat don't worry, we will match you with someone who does, that's an SOB promise.
See you on the water.

9/12/07 Outing - This Outings season is now down in the books and what an exciting season it was.  With multiple fish caught at every Outing, this years Traveling Trophy Contest was the closest in SOB club history.  Bob Matusek made a final push to try to knock Rob Frechette out of the lead with a 40.5", which was the only muskie caught.  So how did it all play out, I can see you guys biting your nails just waiting to see.  But instead I'm just babbling on here trying to build up the suspense.  OK OK I'll tell yea.  Rob Frechette managed to hold on to his lead by 3/4 of a point.  Rob finished with 31.25 points to take top honors and the Traveling Trophy for 2007.  Bob Matusek finished with 30.5, followed by Jim Stella with 13.25 points, then Jefferson Batt with 11.5 points, then Kathy Cammarata with 8 points, then Bill Kilimnik with 7 points and John Splitts with 4 points.  Well it's back inside for the October Meeting, we will be holding it a week later due to a good point that a bunch of SOB's will be fishing in the PMTT Championship in Kentucky during our normal week, so we will hold our Meeting on 10/24/07 with Steve Worrall from MuskieFIRST as our guest speaker.  So be sure to show up and show your support to the SOB's.

8/15/07 Outing - We had another fine Outing, the rain missed us while we were on the water and for the most part so did the muskies.  But as is becoming a trend with the Outings this year, somebody always gets one or two.  It was that way for SOB's Bob Matusek & John Splitts.  Bob caught a 35" narrowing Rob Frechette's lead for the Traveling Trophy and John caught a 30".  Well with just one more Outing left, here's the breakdown for the Traveling Trophy.  Rob is in the lead with 31.25 points followed by Bob with 16, Stella with 13.25, Jefferson with 11.5 points, Kathy with 8 points, Bill with 7 and then John with 4 points.  Next up is September 12, 2007.

7/18/07 Outing - Just because I mentioned that we finally had nice weather for the last outing, the weather seemed to take offence and did it's best to drive everybody off the water, but not before some muskies were boated.  SOB member Jim Stella caught a 39.25", SOB member Bob Matusek caught two 33", but only one of them was caught during the Outing hours and SOB member Bill Kilimnik caught a 33".  It was a great time despite the torrential rains & lightning, we had about 10 boats and around 24 people who attended the outing.  So after 3 outing Rob is in the lead for the Traveling Trophy with 31.25 points followed by Stella with 13.25, Jefferson with 11.5 points, Kathy with 8 points and then Bob & Bill with 7 points each.  Next up is August 15, 2007.  Photos are below, click to enlarge.

6/13/07 Outing - Well we finally had some pleasant weather for an outing.  Sunny skies, warm temperatures, but again for most, no muskies.  That is if you weren't Rob Frechette.  Rob had the proverbial horseshoe up his butt, for lack of a better word.  Rob caught a 37 1/4" & a pair of 36's".  The funny thing is that the two 36's were indeed the same fish, it had a tag and it ate twice about 10 minutes apart, talk about being hungry.  So after two outing Rob is in the lead for the Traveling Trophy with 31.25 points followed by Jefferson with 11.5 points and then Kathy with 8 points.  Next up is July 18, 2007.  Photos are below, click to enlarge.

5/16/07 Outing - For those that braved the weather fronts that moved in and out, unfortunately it didn't pay off, except for Jefferson Batt and Kathy Cammarata.  Jefferson is a new member to the SOB's and he showed off his stuff catching t a nice 37.5".  Kathy Cammarata also caught a 34", those were the only fish caught for the Outing.

Green Bay Muskies

SOB members Nick Cammarata and his wife Kathy went up to Green Bay, WI on the Fox River to try their hand at those GB monsters.  Kathy caught 3 with the biggest being a nice 47" (LOTM for May) Nick also got a 43.5".  Here are some of their photos.  Click on the image to see an enlargement.

SOB Members Do Well In Fox Chain PMTT

The SOB's again showed their skills in the 1st event of the 2007 PMTT Trail held on the Fox Chain in April.  SOB Member Nick Cammarata and his partner Rick Miscinski took 8th Place with a 39.25".  SOB members Ben Modica & Tim Wallies took 15th Place with a 30".  Great Job Guys, their photos are below.