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| Hi all,
The Fort Atkinson Wisconservation Club is holding their annual banquet at the Jefferson, Wisconsin fairgrounds on Monday evening, March 19, 2012. The event is a sell out every year. We expect about 500 or more sportsmen/women in attendance. We are looking for a speaker to fill the "15-20 minute window" in our agenda.
I was thinking a Madison, Wisconsin Fishing guide that focuses on the Madison chain may be good entertainment. He or she would not necessarily have to be a "muskie only" guide. Any ideas who may be interested in doing a short presentation? Thanks! - Jim Furley |
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| Jeff Hanson comes to mind. You might check out Mike Koepp or Dennis Radloff, who guide on several area lakes as well. |
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| Adam Oberfoell's the guy you're looking for.
http://www.getthenetmuskyguide.com/
[email protected]
(608) 220-3406
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Location: FIB land | I met and fished with Ron Barefield up at Herbie's place, a great multi-species guide, a fine man as well. Don't know if he does speaking events though...
Don |
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Location: Oshkosh | Lee Tauchen comes to my mind, he puts on great seminars!
Peter |
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| Lee Tauchen seems like a natural,,,and hes small so he wont eat alot at the banquet |
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Location: Contrarian Island | Lee would be a good fit as Jeff and Adam pretty much focus on muskies and Lee is a multi species guy on all the madison lakes.... |
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| Just as a suggestion made in good faith, if someone is going to be traveling to your function to speak, you may want to give them more than 15-20 minutes of time. |
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| 15-20 minutes may not be worth most speakers' time, regardless of where they are from... I'd imagine there's very little that a guide could cover in 15-20 minutes, unless it was a slideshow of fish pictures. |
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| are you guys kidding!!!!,,heres alot of guys seminars-
"throw a double ten and figure 8" |
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| Wow, thanks for the great suggestions! I doubt we could go wrong with any of the quality names mentioned above. Our board of directors will make a decision soon.
Dear “guest.” We have held our banquet for more than 60 years and have never had a difficult time finding a speaker. In addition, the banquet sells out 500-plus seats every year. We pack the place without the need to advertise. We must be doing something right.
Our attendees come to feast on a delicious all-you-can-eat meal, drink a few beverages and listen to a little club business. We then introduce our main speaker, who we schedule for 15-20 minutes, but historically they get a little windy. After our speaker is through, we end the night by giving away a boat load of raffle prizes. Being it’s a work/school night, everyone gets home at a reasonable time. When it’s all over, our attendees are satisfied, our speaker thanks us for the invite and our club has dollars to use for such things as rebuilding the flood-damaged local fish hatchery, etc. I would like to thank you for your comments, but remember what your Papa Paul used to say: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” - Jim Furley  |
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