Aaron Schock Clay Pigeon Shooting
I just wanted to let everyone know there is a clay pigeon shoot Sunday, August 15, 2010 at Oak Ridge Sportsmans Club. The event is being put together by the people in support of Aaron Schock for Congressman. Aaron is a good friend of mine, we grew up together in the same sunday school.
Sign up and event information is below. Aaron’s mom used to teach me and my siblings piano lessons a long long time ago. We used to play crow kay in the yard while waiting for everyone to get done with their lesson. That just doesnt look right- crokae, crokay, crowque oh well. Anyhow I grew up with Aaron but haven’t seen too much of him lately. The shooting event will be fun.
I shot at the Midwest Food Bank clay pigeon event last week and have another shooting event coming up this friday. All at the same place in Mackinaw, so I should be practiced up for this event in August, but more importantly practiced up for the dove season opener in September. Here is a pic of the course:
YOU ARE INVITED TO MACKINAW, ILLINOIS
FOR A SPORTING CLAY SHOOT
IN SUPPORT OF
CONGRESSMAN
AARON SCHOCK
18th District, Illinois
SUNDAY AUGUST 15, 2010
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
(dinner will be provided)
OAKRIDGE SPORTMAN’S CLUB
Weishaupt Road Mackinaw, Illinois
The Sporting Clay Shoot will be followed by
a dinner reception at the Sportsman’s Club.
CONTRIBUTION LEVELS:
PAC Sponsor: $1,000
Platinum Sponsor: $500
(Includes Shooting, Dinner and Sponsor Signage posted at event.)
Shooter & Dinner Ticket: $175
Dinner Ticket: $100
If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact
Tania Hoerr at (309) 693-9393 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Big Fish and Bigger Deer!
I actually don’t have that many words to write at the moment. I think I did pick a fitting title though- Big Fish and Big Deer.
This deer is from one of my clients properties in fulton county. He just got it back from a taxidermist this weekend. It was 221 inches and some of his relatives are still hanging out on the farm (the deer’s relatives, not the clients).
We are putting in some trail cams, deer stands, and strategic fall food plots to help his relatives (the clients’ this time) get some more deer like that one!
Chef Todd catered a dinner for me at Otter Creek Preserve Saturday night. He cooked Blueberry Bluecheese Elk burgers and tomato something salad. It was delicious. We were showing some clients around the farm for the evening. Otter Creek is perhaps one of the nicest recreational farms in Illinois. Here are some pics:
These lakes will produce state record muskies and I have never ever said this before about any lake, but these lakes will eventually produce state record largemouth and even have an outside shot at the state record smallmouth bass as well. I have worked on this 147 acre lake since it was a puddle and we are on pace to produce double digit bass here in central Illinois! I have never intensively managed a lake to this degree.
Moving on, Chef Todd also catered a dinner for me Sunday evening for 40 friends and family of my parents. He cooked sweet chili glaze chicken, barbecue pork chops, bacon wrapped stuffed chicken tenders, and all the fixins. Folks if you havent caught on yet, the man can cook! Get ahold of me if your interested in having a great meal of any kind catered by the chef. I will be his booking agent and only loan him to others when he has some free time.
He took some of the kids fishing on the dock after dinner and made sure they all caught fish. He then caught some nice fish of his own. Here is the biggest bluegill and biggest smallmouth bass he has caught from my lake to date: (not lake records, but Chef records).
Hot Crappies- Cool Deer Stuff
Sunset at the lake on Saturday evening:
Saturday morning I got all my fishing gear ready, hooked up a couple fishing boats, and met up with Chef Todd with enough food for an army, and we headed out. Our agenda for the day was to take some clients and their friends fishing and then cook them up a feast. It was sunny and 92 degrees outside, but surprisingly the fish were biting and we managed to stay cool enough to have a great time fishing.
Before we headed out to the Big lake in the boats we were all fishing off the covered dock when one of the ladies hooked into a nice channel catfish on some catfish bait. She was realing it in when the catfish got itself snagged in a brush pile about 15 feet deep on the bottom. I could feel the catfish on the line but it was all wrapped up in the tree.
I made it back up with the beast and I felt like one of those crazy guys on tv doing stupid stuff in the wild that most people would never even think about doing even during survival situations. The only kicker was that I had a live audience with no room for error or any signs of weakness. Anyhow that was my moment, and it was alot of fun. We ate that fish for dinner.
We then headed out to the lake for some crappie fishing. Chef Todd took out a couple ladies, I took out 4 ladies, and there were two other boats of guys. We all caught lots of fish, but there was one boat with 4 ladies who caught a good majority of the fish, and especially all the fish fo dinna. Brook absolutely hates it when I talk or write about anything good that I do or accomplish or brag or boast about, but this is my fishing blog and by golly I am gonna very biasedly tell the story like it is! For her sake I wont name any names of the amazing fishing guide or of the 4 ladies.
Here are some more pics from the fishing trip. The northerns actually are reproducing in this 31 acre lake. Northerns havent been stocked since 2002 and these two fish were yearlings hatched in the spring of 2009:
Here is what the fish looked like about an hour later. This fish was with his school in the morning and hanging out with Chef Todd in the afternoon:
Monday here are some pics from the electrofishing survey. This 6 acre lake is stacked up with lots of 2.75 lb largemouth bass. Not many smaller and none bigger, interesting…. Brought the kids out to take some pics of the catch.
This baby is getting a nice staircase and electricity. It will be overlooking a fall planting of 3 acres of beans and other tasty stuff:
Here is the view looking out of the Texas Hunter double blind:
Here is one of the new cuddeback cameras:
And here is the plot it is overlooking:
His garage is full of every kind of wood working tool imaginable. He makes bows, duck and goose calls, turkey calls, coyote calls, knives, inkpens, and other outdoor stuff from wood and antlers and bones from his property. Real cool stuff.
I brought some pond stuff along hoping to trade for some of this stuff. Here is what I came home with that Brook doesnt know about yet. This stuff doesnt pay the bills, but it does help put meat on the table so there you go- justified. I don’t have Brad’s email address with me tonight, but if for some reason I forget to add it later just give me a holler if your interested in getting a hold of him. He has a huge collection available, but also custom makes anything too.
Today I did a whole bunch of dumb not noteworthy stuff, but this afternoon I went out to a 550 acre farm to start working on a complete deer, quail, and waterfowl management plan. Timber Creek Land Company is helping me design this plan for my client. This property sits in a major goose flyway and there are already lots of deer, and tons of quail running around everywhere. Our goal is just to tweak everything in just a way to bring the people and the animals just a bit closer together. We are strategically planning the food plots, the deer stand locations, trail cameras, goose pits, etc. Land management stuff is pretty neat and lots of fun.
Lots of fish dying right now in Central Illinois. Most of the time the cause of death is suffocation (lack of oxygen) but that can be caused by a variety of different things. I could not for the life of me figure out one fish kill earlier today. I went over everything with the owner and his wife and it just didnt all add up. Finally after a couple phone calls he forgot to mention they applied copper sulfate the day before but didnt think anything about it since they have never had trouble in the past with treatments. There is always some piece of the puzzle that gets tucked under the rug only to be found a bit later. Thursday monring I will try to figure out another one near Metamora.
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