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Location: Ottawa, Ont | For those in Ottawa Ontario or looking to travel to an amazing fishing show:
With more than 390 Friends and growing Muskies Canada Ottawa Chapter? wants to personally invite you to Muskie Day April 6th at the fair grounds in Carp Ontario. Those who arrive between 8-9 only will have a chance to win a door prize as well all admission 8am-9am go to support Muskies Canada. April 5-7 will be the annual Valley Fishing and Outdoor Show. http://www.valleysportsmanshow.com/Home
Here is the lay out of Muskie Day including seminars by Guild and professional angler John Anderson? and much more...
Don' t miss the Valley Fishing & Outdoors Show this year, April 5-7, Carp Fairgrounds, Ottawa
Saturday April 6 will be MUSKIE DAY.
Admission to the Show is only $8.00 .Early-bird attendance proceeds (before 9am) go to support Muskies Canada.
8.00 Doors Open
8.00 – 8.15
Intro & Welcome Peter Levick , Muskies Canada
8.15 – 9.30 Muskies Canada Workshop 1
- Rods for Muskie Fishing
- Reels for casting & trolling
- Lines, leaders & terminal tackle
Featuring: Retailers, Pro Staff Specialists, Muskies Canada Experts
9.30 - 10.15 Managing for Muskies in the 21st Century in Ontario
Featuring: Dan Taillon & OMNR Ministry staff & FMZ 12 & 18 reps
10.15 - 10.30 Break & discussions
10.30 - 11.30 Keynote Presentation:
Ottawa - The Greatest Musky City in the World
- Resource overview
- Muskie movements in the system (telemetry studies info),
- Proper handling, tactics
Featuring: John Anderson, Ottawa River Guide & Muskie Expert
11.30 - 12.00 Muskie Hot Stove
Featuring: Experts in an armchair session -
Could include John Anderson, Hedrik Wachelka, Jim Hutchings, MNR staff
12.00 - 12.30 Announcement:
Muskies Canada & Ottawa Riverkeeper Partnership
Featuring: Peter Levick (Muskies Canada) & Alexandra Brett (from Ottawa Riverkeeper)
12.30 - 1.00 Lunch Break
1.00 - 1.45 Workshop 2
- Casting - spinners, jerk-baits, gliders, plastics
- Precision trolling tactics
- Hot baits
Featuring: Muskies Canada Experts
1.45 - 2.15 Workshop 3
- Catch, Photo, Release
- Release tools
- The advantage of Fishing Barbless
- Photo tips
- Ensuring a good release
Featuring: Muskies Canada Experts
2.15 - 3.00 The St. Lawrence Muskie Fishery
- Resident Muskies
- Young of the Year studies
- Catching the late season giants
- New 54 inch limit
Featuring: Jim Hutchings, Muskies Canada Gananoque chapter & Josh Van Wieren, Parks Canada
3.00 - 3.15 Break
3.15 - 4.00 Muskies & the Rideau system
- Muskies in the Lower Rideau Watershed
- Restoring Muskie Habitat
- Chapman Mills Project
- NEWS - Brewer Pond Project for 2013
Featuring: Hedrik Wachelka – Muskies Canada &
Jennifer Lamoureux, Rideau Valley Conservation Authority
4.00 – 5.00 Muskies Canada - Making a Difference
Panel discussion about Muskies Canada, our projects and special initiatives to sustain the Muskie fishery and how you can help make a difference.
Featuring: Chris Purdy (National President); Peter Levick, (Ottawa); Jim Hutchings (Gananoque); Tyler Duncan (Upper Ottawa Valley); Tom McCutcheon (Kawartha Lakes); Marc Pitre (Sudbury); Denis Gravel (Montreal)
5.00 Closing remarks Peter Levick, Muskies Canada
Muskie Day Speaker Bios
John Anderson, Muskie Guide
– John has been a guide since 1977, educator, speaker, writer, researcher, television guest, and tournament pro. He has been a feature speaker at several of the biggest musky shows in the US and has landed the biggest musky ever for many of the US and Canada’s most prominent television fishing personalities. He is a musky behavior expert and you are guaranteed to be both entertained and smarter about Canada’s greatest fresh water apex predator. Sponsors include Crestliner, Mercury, Andre Lalonde Marine, St. Croix, Sail, Spanky Baits, and the Motel Rouleau.
http://www.ottawarivermuskyfactory.com/
Alexandra Brett, Communications Director, Ottawa Riverkeeper
– Alex Brett comes to Ottawa Riverkeeper with a firm grounding in aquatic biology, over 20 years of work in science communications, and a broad range of experience producing exhibitions, articles, print and audio products, and educational material, all with a focus on making science relevant and engaging to a wide range of people. After years of working in and around the federal government, she is delighted to finally have a job where asking questions and demanding change are part of the job description. Alex holds a BSc (Hons) from Dalhousie University and spent several years in graduate school in fish biology. In addition to working in science communications she has done time as a park naturalist and a fisheries technician. She has also published two crime novels, both revolving around science fraud.
http://ottawariverkeeper.ca/
Jennifer Lamoureux, Rideau Valley Conservation Authority
– As the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority's (RVCA) Aquatic and Fish Habitat Biologist for the past 13 years, Jennifer Lamoureux has provided a range of professional biological services and advice to support the programs and activities of the RVCA and its partners. Jennifer manages the Conservation Authority’s aquatic monitoring programs and provides technical input in support of the RVCA programs in regulations, planning and development review, watershed monitoring and reporting, restoration and stewardship and watershed management planning. Jennifer has provided technical input and advice from an aquatic ecology perspective for over 1500 development projects in the Rideau Valley Watershed.
http://www.rvca.ca/
Muskies Canada Speakers & Resources
• Tyler Duncan, Chair, Upper Valley Chapter
• Michel Frechette, Director-at-Large, Ottawa Chapter
- Muskies Canada liaison with Quebec
• Bill Fuller, Director-at-Large, Ottawa Chapter
- Muskies Canada rep for Ontario FMZ 18
• Denis Gravel, Chair, Montreal Chapter
• Jim Hutchings, Chair, Gananoque Chapter
- Muskies Canada rep for Ontario FMZ 20
- Member of the Muskies Canada Hall of Fame
• Larry Lambourne, Director-at-Large, Ottawa Chapter
- Muskies Canada rep for Ontario FMZ 12
• Peter Levick, Chair, Ottawa Chapter
• Marc Pitre, Chair, Sudbury Chapter
• Chris Purdy, National President, Muskies Canada
• Tom McCutcheon, Chair, Kawartha Lakes Chapter
• Hedrik Wachelka, Research Director and Past President, Ottawa Chapter
- Member of the Muskies Canada Hall of Fame
http://www.muskiescanada.ca/
Dan Taillon, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario
– Dan Taillon is Recreational Fisheries Policy lead with the Ministry of Natural Resources, Fisheries Policy Section in Peterborough. Prior to taking on this role, he spent five years as the Peterborough Area Biologist and worked closely with the Fisheries Management Zone 17 Advisory Council on the development of the FMZ 17 Fisheries Management Plan. Additional MNR work experience includes time as a Fisheries Biologist with Fort Frances District and the Lake Erie Management Unit. Dan is the primary MNR contact with Muskies Canada for the volunteer angler diary program.
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/STDU_129662 ... ishing_Eng
Josh Van Wieren, Park Ecologist - St. Lawrence Islands National Park,
Parks Canada
– Josh has played an important role in a partnership between Parks Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and Muskies Canada in developing a seining program to discover important muskellunge nursery habitat on the upper St. Lawrence River. Josh has also helped to develop a nationwide standard for monitoring the health of wetlands habitat.
http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/lawren/natcul.aspx
Check out the main website for more information http://www.valleysportsmanshow.com/VFOS |
MUSKY DAY APRIL 6TH Near Ottawa Ontario