Rob Hilsabeck is employed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, serving as a district fisheries biologist for the last 21 years. Rob has found this position to be extremely rewarding and a “dream” job. His job duties vary from youth education to lake management which provides ample oportunities to share fisheries activities with the pub-ic. The fisheries personnel and …
2016 Speakers Schedule
Here is the speaker schedule for our 2016 meetings. If you have ideas or suggestions, please get in touch with Todd Minor. January – Steve Heiting February – Tony Grant March – Billy Davis, Melton Hill guide April – Matt Firestein Lake St. Claire May – Bill Bennett, Indiana guide June/July/August – no meetings September 14th – Benjamin Heussner WDNR …
FRV Now On Instagram!
FRV recently joined Instagram…please follow “frvmuskies” and share images with the account that promote the club, show off your latest catch, etc.
New Forum Now Live!
As of this evening, the new forum has been made live. You can get there by clicking on the “Forum” link in the header navigation of the site. As mentioned in a previous post, the old forum could not be salvaged when we moved to the new hosting provider. That being said, you’ll need to register to use the new …
Congratulations Brandon Schorle and Phil Gutmann – IMTT Angler of the Year and Runner Up
Congratulations to Brandon and Phil on a great IMTT season! Steve Sarley wrote up a nice article that you can read here. And here is the IMTT article.
November 2015 Meeting – Ken Jackson
KEN JACKSON ON WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11TH Ken Jackson is a researcher and writer for Fishing the North Country publications. He and his family own and operate Jackson’s Lakeside Cottages on Vilas County’s Little St. Germain Lake. During the open water season he guides the waters of Northern Wisconsin for muskie, bass, and walleye. A graduate of UW-Stevens Point, Ken has written for such publications …
FRV Site Updates
As we’re all painfully aware, the FRV website has had some challenges with being hacked recently. As part of the effort to address this, we have moved to a new hosting provider that will help manage some things for us (namely keeping the software up to date). The site you’re on now is the newly migrated FRV site that went …
Breast Cancer Awareness Outing – Cancelled
Unfortunately, we do not have enough participants signed up for the event on September 12th and have to cancel. We apologize to anyone that was looking forward to the event.
Summer Fishing League!
Come on out and join your fellow FRV members for the FRV 2015 summer fishing league! The fishing league dates are: Wednesday June 3rd, Wednesday July 1st Wednesday August 5th. Fishing hours will run from 6:00PM-9:30PM. Check in is at the Thirsty Turtle from 5-6:00PM on the south end of Channel Lake. Pay $20 to be eligible for cash payouts …
September 2015 Meeting – Phil Gutmann
Change in plans for the meeting on September 9th. Bill Bennett is rescheduled for May and our own Phil Gutmann has a new presentation ready for us. Hope to see you there! Admission is $3.00/person at the door. All our meetings are open to the public. A BUFFET DINNER IS SERVED AT 6:00-7:00PM. COST $13.00/ADULTS. MEETING BEGINS AT 7:00PM.