Ohio Huskie Muskie Club, Inc

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate this past muskie season with us at our 2025 OHMC Banquet!  It was a great evening exchanging fish stories over dinner and drinks.  Many plaques were awarded, and everyone took home a brand new muskie bait from Llungen Lures.  Representatives from the Ohio Department of natural Resources spoke on all the measures taken to feed the very hungry muskies raised up in our hatcheries, and the ongoing challenges to sourcing enough forage fish/minnows in a cost effective manner.  The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District spoke on all the ways they provide flood control, conservation, and recreational access throughout the wide ranging Muskingum watershed.  Thank you to the ODNR and the MWCD for keeping us informed and answering our questions!  Congratulations to all of our award recipients who caught 10 or more muskies last season and/or caught three or more Huskie Muskies to earn the Dunmire Award.  Congrats to all our “Royalty” winners who are show in the pictures included in this post.  Our program from the banquet is attached showing all the winners.

 

2025 Banquet Column Program

Brad Evans H.E. “Pooch” Curry Award

and the Overall Tournament Winner

 

Addison Davies Queen Royalty Award and Matthew Smith Memorial Award for Junior Girl

 

Colton Harmon for the Matthew Smith Memorial Award for Junior Boy

 

Anna Land for Woman of the Year Award

 

Bob Basic for the Joe Blackwell “Mr. Muskie ” Award

Our 64rd Annual Ohio Huskie Muskie Club business
meeting and awards banquet will be on Saturday, February 15,
2025 at the SYB Party Center located at 4157 Hudson Drive,
Stow, Ohio 44224.
Doors will open at 3:30 pm with the business meeting
starting at 4:00 pm, followed by time to socialize and buy that
lure which will make all the difference in 2025. All members
are urged to attend. During the business meeting, you will be
electing new officers and choosing your 2026 Main Event lake.
You must be a paid up member to vote in the meeting.
The banquet will start at 6:00 pm followed by our dinner
and award presentations. The banquet meal will be $35
per person for adults and $15 for children age 10 and under.

 

You can register for the banquet at this site:

Banquet Registration

At the site you can register yourself and anyone
attending with you and pay for the meals thru PayPal. This
application has proven successful for our events because it is so easy
to use, so please give it a try.

 

If you would like to register by mailing the form back, please
make you check payable to “OHMC” and mail to :
OHMC, 69 Outlook Drive, Tallmadge, Ohio  44278
The mail in form can be found here:

OHMC_BanquetForm

Over 30 anglers came out to our LEESVILLE LUNGEFEST to wrap up our 2024 in-person tournament season while remembering our departed brother, Chuck Land. It was a lovely Fall day to be on the water in pursuit of muskies, and a handful were brought to net. We saw nine muskies over 30 inches submitted in this single day tournament. The largest of all was a 47.75 inch beauty caught by Hunter was awarded the $280 Big Fish pot for landing that monster! Hunter also received the first place trophy for scoring two fish worth 31.75 points. Brad continued his great season, collecting another trophy for his second place finish with 28.5 points. Also taking home a trophy, Jason @redfiveomustangplaced third with 14.25 points. Congratulations to our trophy winners, and everyone else who was able to put a fish on the board! Our favorite catch of the day though, was from Chuck Jr, who caught his muskie in honor of his father on this day we came together to remember Chuck Sr. Really awesome catch Chuck Jr!

Fish Submitted:
1. Hunter Miller, 47.75″ 36″, 31.75 Pts
2. Brad Evans, 40.25″ 40.25″, 28.5 Pts
3. Jason Westbrook, 41.25″, 14.25 Pts
4. Cash Naftzger, 39.25″, 13.25 Pts
5. Chuck Land, 38.25″, 12.25 Pts
6. John Ringenbach, 37.5″, 11.5 Pts
7. Chad Harmon, 36.75″, 10.75 Pts

Thank you to @six2noon Lures for donating awesome bucktails for this and all our events this season, and big thanks to the Prop & Paddle Tavern at Leesville Lake for hosting and feeding us so well again! A huge thank you to all of you who joined us, or made donations allowing us to give $2,000 to Anna Land to show support in her time of loss. We will certainly miss fishing with Chuck, and you remain in our thoughts and prayers Anna. This season passed way too fast, but we appreciate all of you who made it such a great one!

And now…..for our MAIN EVENT!! After postponing our Main Event on Salt Fork back in June due to the warm water temperatures, we are now READY TO RUMBLE on October 12 – 13 instead!  With less pleasure boating traffic, and the early Fall colors showing, we think it will be an awesome time out on this BIG FISH lake!  You’ll also want to join us at our final check-in at 3:30 PM Sunday, at the Salt Fork State Park Marina South Ramp, where we will be serving food while awarding trophies and handing over the cash pot to our winners, as well as raffling off free muskie bucktails from Six2Noon Lures and other baits and holding a 50/50 drawing!  Think you have what it takes to land one of these Salt Fork Monster Muskies??  Then come join us for an awesome weekend of fishing on beautiful Salt Fork!

This two day, points-based tournament is open to EVERYONE, and trophies will be awarded to the top three points earners.  There is also an optional Big Fish pool, with ALL cash being paid to the angler(s) who scores the longest muskie(s).  Fishing begins 8 AM, Saturday and ends at 3 PM Sunday.  All fish must be photographed on a bump board with written/printed identifier code in clear view.  Identifier code and Tournament Director (TD) text number will be announced the night before the tournament begins.  All fish pics must be submitted to the TD via text message or shown in person at final check-in by 3:30 PM Sunday.

So, enter the MAIN EVENT Now and LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!

The entry fee will be $25 with a $10 big fish entry pool.

 

We prefer you register for the event 1 of 2 ways:

• Register online at
  • Online Registration
  • Online registration includes payment through PayPal.
• Via postal mail
  • OHMC, 17712 Edgewater, Lakewood, Ohio 44107
• Registration closes when the event starts.

Once registered, you can launch from any public launch the day of the event once the event has started.

Please read the rules for the tournament below:

Event Rules and Regulations

New for 2024 and going forward: 

• All in-person event plaques will now be given to the winner at the designated in-person fish “weigh-in” location.  If any angler receiving a plaque is unable to make it to the “weigh-in” location, it is that angler’s responsibility to pick it up at a later date.  Plaques will not be mailed out going forward. Plaques will be forfeited after the following year’s banquet.

34 anglers enter our 12th Annual Minnow Fund Outing held on West Branch and Milton.  We host this event every year to raise money for the Minnow Fund, which supports Muskie stocking efforts in Ohio.  30 fish were submitted in the tournament, with 10 of them being Huskie Muskies, 42 inches or longer, and one elusive Ohio 50 incher!

As we shared pizza and fish stories, trophies were awarded at our check-in to each of our top three points earners.  The Big Fish cash pot was won by Alex Turner who landed a giant 50 incher!  Alex very generously donated all the $320 cash winnings back to the Minnow Fund!  Several lucky attendees took home new Muskie lures from our free bait drawing, and bait board raffle, including some beautiful bucktails from Six2noon Lures.  We held a 50/50 raffle as well that was won by Mark Herring.  Mark could’ve walked away with some extra cash in his pocket, but he gave it all back to the Minnow Fund!  So awesome to see all the people who came together, or donated to the Minnow Fund to help sustain the great Muskie fishery we have here!

Through our events like this, the Ohio Muskie Guide Service raffle (that just brought in an additional $1,225), contributions from our great sponsors, and your donations, we were able to send a check for $4,600 to the Minnow Fund to help raise up future Huskie Muskies!  Thank you to all of you for your continued support of the Minnow Fund.

Congrats to our trophy winners, and all who were able to put a Muskie on the board!  Here are the final rankings from the tournament:

 

Justin Harbin 170 Points. 49.5″, 44.5″, 43.5″, 43″, 42.25″, 41.75″, 40.25″, 38.25″, 38.25″, 38″, 36.75″

Alex Turner *Big Fish Pot Winner * 70 Points. 50″, 41.5″, 38″, 36″, 34.5″

Austin Blauser 30 Points. 44″, 38″

Joe Martinelli 29.75 Points. 43.75″, 38″

Sean McCloskey 28 Points. 41.75″, 38.25″

Mark Herring 25.5 Points. 39.5″, 38″

Chuck Land 22 Points. 39.5″, 34.5″

Rick Thorp 19 Points. 45″

Daniel Burant 16 Points. 42″

Matt Davies 11.5 Points. 37.5″

Gary Andreis 11.25 Points. 37.25″

 

Justin Harbin 49.5″

Justin Harbin 43″

Justin Harbin 42.25″

Justin Harbin 41.75″

Justin Harbin 40.25″

Justin Harbin 38″

Justin Harbin 38.25″

Justin Harbin 38.25″

Justin Harbin 36.75″

Alex Turner 50″

Alex Turner Big Fish Pot Winner

Austin Blauser Third Place Trophy

Joe Martinelli 43.75″

Joe Martinelli 38″

Sean McCloskey 41.75″

Mark Herring 39.5″

Chuck Land 34.5″

Daniel Burant 42″

Matt Davies 37.5″

Gary Andreis 37.25″