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CAMP WALLEYE 2009!
2009 Camp Walleye had a total of 55 Kid Campers, 9 Chaperones, 32 Boats
and 72 Volunteers.
Looking at past years and summarizing Campers caught more perch than ever
with Less time spent fishing (but fish perch were smaller). All other areas
were close to past years when taking hours on water into account.
Campers and boats only went out 2 times rather than the normal 3 so fishing
was cut by 33% or 6 hours. Which effected catch rate somewhat.
All chaperones did a great job making sure kids had a good time even
thought they weren’t on the water. To anyone that has had anything to do with
this camp if you have comments please let me know. Thank You. Pat Volkmar.
Below are the results from the weekend.
| Fish Type |
Number Caught |
Average size |
| Walleye |
73 |
15.3" |
| Northern Pike |
23 |
22.95" |
| Trout |
3 |
16.75" |
| Perch |
281 |
6.83" |
| Carp/Sucker |
8 |
14.6" |
Big Fish and Camp Winners
- Luke McEntee - Big Walleye at 22"
- Matt Webb - moste inches 148" also Big Pike at 33"
- Dale Morehouse/Huffman - Pike 25"
- Marrisa Lencioni - Big Trout 21"
- Blaize Wagner - Big Perch 11"
- Matt Mohar - Big Trash Fish 27" (9 lb carp)
- Best Boy Camper - Hunter Cross
- Best Girl Camper - Torie Howarth
NMS Exploratory Week!
The NMS Fishng club went fishing 2 afternoons. The first day to Giant
Springs where kids caught lots of trout and the weather was great. The
second day was to Wadsworth. Fishing was great but catching was slow
however the kids had a great time!
Sam Schultz was the fisherman of the month for November 2009.
Hope to see you all at the next fishing trip! This trip is planned for
Dec 12th and will probably be doing some ice fishing. (Ice fishing 101 is
Dec 9th 6:30 at NMS in shop area).
Special thanks goes out to Bus Drivers Bill Caffyn, Jay Skogg, and Alex
Ferguson, Derik Senger for running around and picking up all the gear.
Have a great day Pat Volkmar - Here are some photos of the trip!
 
 
  
 
June 30th Glasgow Kids Fun Day
Photo's sent in by Mary Humbert
Madison Sibley and Dana Wetzel 5.7lb walleye.
Garrett Godwin and Kyle Humbert
 
 
May 30th
Hello From North Middle School Hooked on Fishing not Drugs
What a day we had today May 30th 2009. The Kids of NMS Fishing Club and adults
from Great Falls Chapter Walleyes Unlimited and Montana Fish wildlife & Parks
came together to beautify a fishing access. This is a great place a very nice
Prairie Pond in a great setting.
We all set upon this because of 2 grants one from Northwestern Energy and
Great Falls Walleyes Unlimited. There has been a Pavilion at this location for
years but it was falling down from the Prairie winds and severe winters. So
NMS Fishing Club took it upon it's self last year to try to raise money to
repair and beautify it. This Saturday this project came together. The Pavilion
is repaired and picnic tables were
fixed. Great project that came together with a lot of helping hands.
Special Thanks too!!!!
Alex Ferguson & Derik Senger- for bringing there pickups & enclosed trailer’s,
generators, tools, and hauling Supplies and Helping.
Adam Strainer & Cody Nagel of MFWP- for helping with all the building.
Darrel Beach, Bob Barr, Dick Headley & Rona Debolt of Great Falls Walleyes
Unlimited- For all there help constructing and cleanup on the project.
Alan Wegner &David Bernhardt - Parents of NMS Fishing Club for helping with
the kids and construction.
David Sergent- Our cook who made us Homemade Chili and corn bread.
Special Thanks to Holiday Gas Station for Hot Dogs, Water, cookies and muffins.
Northwestern Energy & Great Falls Chapter Walleyes unlimited for paying for
Supplies.
Windsor Plywood for their donation of supplies that helped make this happen.
THANKS--Mike Wedekind.
I hope I didn't forget anyone this was a big project that would of went great
because of a lot of great people.
Have a great day
Pat Volkmar
Holter Lake, April 9th 2009
North Middle School Hooked on Fishing not Drugs
Here's a great fishing report on a trip to Holter Reservoir. What a day,
weather was great, catching was good and the kids got to experience Fly
Fishing for big rainbow trout. The biggest was a 4.95lb/25inch Trout and
several from 25inches down to the smallest at 13 inches. We had Great help
from everyone, special thanks to the following. Mike Rietz teacher from
Lincoln Elementary School who brought his Drift Boat and took kids out fly
fishing. Jennifer Poposil & Gail Holzhiemer who were great helping our younger
teachers. Yes, Art Teachers are a big help to the fishing club! Dave Sergent
Cooked hot dogs and pork n' beans. Alex Ferguson brought his pickup and
trailer and helped with every thing. Joe Wanago from Holiday gas Station
brought breakfast and cookies for the kids and helped taking pictures of kids
fishing. Alan Wegner helped kids with fishing gear. Bill Caffyn helped kids
and brought his bus. Mr. Ruiz helped the kids with fishing. Bobby Lewis who
graduated from the Fishing club and Walleye camp Chapereon and he helped kids
fly fishing. Thanks Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks & Great Falls Chapter
Walleyes Unlimited for providing buses, bait, tackle and gear for the trip.
Hope I didn't miss anyone, this was great to have all the help and thank you
to everyone.
The next trip will be a community outing to clean up around Tiber Reservoir on
April 25th. Next is May 2nd, we are tentatively planning to do a rehab of the
fishing access at Bailey's Reservoir.
Hope to see lots of you their!
Have a great day Pat Volkmar
Glendive chapter and FWP will host "kids day" at Hollecker Lake on May 14th
- See chapter news for all the details.
The "NMS Hooked on Fishing not Drugs" club went to Lake Francis by Valier on
Presidents Day. What a great day to be on the Ice! Their were kids from CMR,
Simms High ,NMS, and MeadowLark Elementary. We had a total of 20 kids and 10
adults. The Kids caught alot of perch and Northern Pike as you can see from
the photos. The Kids had lots of fun! Special thanks to Alex Ferguson for
teaching and mentoring kids in a positive way. Also, thanks to Danny Devine
for cooking Hamburgers and the Holiday Gas Stations for Muffins, Turnovers and
bottled water, and Valley Meats for the hamburger. The trip was provide by the
Great Falls Walleyes Unlimited and Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks. Also, we
couldn't get this done with out the help of all the parents on these trips.
The club also picked up several bags of garbage on our "Leave it better than
when we got their" program. Remember, NMS Moto is "NO CHILD LEFT INSIDE". Have
Great Week - Go Fishing Pat Volkmar
Jan 19th
NMS fishing club took 30 children from elementary to High School out fishing
on Beaver Creek Reservoir. What a great day with temperature almost 50 with
only a breath of wind. Catching fish on the other hand was a little slow. Had
two fisherman of the month. Duck Slayer and Anthonio Ruis both caught 12
perch. We have several parents to thank for helping out. Special thanks to our
Chef David Sergent and Dave Hagenguber and his son Joe for helping just about
every kid catch a couple fish. Also thanks to Alex Fergusen for bringing his
mobile classroom and Scott Achilles from Scheels for helping out. I would
personally like to thank Jack Emard a local fisherman and Walleyes Unlimited
member for donating his time and knowledge to the kids. This was a very good
trip many kids caught their first fish.
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