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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1983
Page
8
Lake Erie Charter Boat Association announces the Pro-Am Walleye Tournament kicking off May 28 with amateur and pro divisions. Amateurs face 500 boat limit, $100 entry, 18 foot minimum, 17 inch minimum for fish. pros up to 250 boats, $250 per team, six contestants and an observer per boat, ten fish daily. Radios are banned this year.
Izaak Walton League Lorain County Ely Chapter directs a revised meeting time with a 2 p.m. session and a 1 p.m. directors’ session at the clubhouse on Foster Road in Penfield Township. Larry Mitchell of Wellington reports interior progress on the new clubhouse with volunteer work each weekend while seeking to reduce a 15000 dollar loan.
Bill Wilson, 17, of 415 E Main St LaGrange filled his deer license early by taking a 10 point buck during bow season. The report notes it as one of the better deer taken in Lorain County bow season.
Three area anglers lead statewide standings as awards set for the Fish Ohio banquet in Columbus on April 23. Norman Wulff Avon Lake tops rainbow trout with an 18.2 pound state record caught in Lake Erie last March 12. T C Hassey Westlake leads chinook salmon with a 39 inch 21% pound fish from Rocky River October 6. Mark C Fanelli Medina leads bullhead with a 2.4 pound fish from a farm pond last June.
Leland L. Martin of Wakeman will discuss butterflies as a hobbyist at 7 30 p m February 1 at the Lorain County Metro Park visitors center Diagonal Road Lorain The next board meeting is at 7 30 p m March 1 at Richard Van Deusen’s home Tickets for the Audubon Screen Tour by Ken Creed of Atlanta GA are $2 50 for adults and $1 for children for the March 11 showing at the First Congregational Church Great Hall in Elyria Tickets available from Audubon members at the February meeting or at the door.
Craegh Limpach, a University of Alaska Fairbanks junior, used Ohio deer tactics to stalk two miles and shoot a bedded moose within 20 feet with a slug from a family heirloom Model 1897 Winchester 12 gauge. The shot ended a fall hunt in Alaska, where traditional long-range rifles are common.
Early January deer season across Lorain Medina Ashland and Huron counties yielded 3 412 deer, up 701 from last year. Medina recorded 17, Ashland 44, and Huron 41, while Don Miller Totals show 21 in Lorain County. Avon Lake library hosts a hunter safety course February 7 8 9 from 6 30 to 9 30 each day with preregistration due by February 5 via D Markle at 933 3163. Elyrian Jack Wallace of Lake Avenue plans a small lure business expanding jigspin and steelhead lures with custom spinning options for anglers.
The Elyrian bass fisherman promotes his pursuit across several states and Canada. The Izaak Walton League received a 150000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to expand its hunting ethics program with publications, a center, and a clearinghouse, while local Black River IWLA Chapter pushes the ethics concept and public contact info is provided for Arias Meadows and Ralph Messuri.
Pelican Guides Inc releases two color waterproof walleye charts for Lake Erie. One map covers 25 Ohio sites and 22 Canadian reefs and shoals with bottom types depths and compass headings. Charts show distances travel times between spots and major reef areas with insets and contour lines.
U S Fish and Wildlife Service researchers show that common commercial mix ingredients like flax canary and rape seeds are rarely eaten by wild birds. Black stripe or gray strip sunflower seeds attract mainly blue jays and tufted titmice, while white proso millet and black oil type sunflower seeds are eagerly taken. Milo sorghum wheat oats cracked corn and rice are common but often ignored if favored seeds are present. Overall wild birds favor black oil type sunflower seeds and white proso millet highest.
Charles Fashing, 74, Amherst, is in intensive care at a Toledo hospital after a December tree stand accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Unable to speak because of throat tubing, he instructs Waverly Hunt Club members via lip reading to secure muskrats for a winter dinner. The club recently elected officers with Fashing named honorary president.
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