Category: Events

OHMC’s 61st Annual Banquet took place on February 19th at the SYB Party Center.  A total of 76 people participated in the event. We had a business meeting at 4:00 pm followed by the Banquet at 6:00 pm.  We were fortunate to have 3 representatives from the ODNR join us for the event.

• Curt Wagner, District Three Fish Management Supervisor
• Kevin Page, Fisheries Biologist, Inland Fisheries Research Unit
• Scott Hale, Executive Administrator of Fish Management & Research

Also our newly elected slate of officers and trustees were recognized:

• OHMC Officers
• President – Jeff Ferjutz
• 1^st Vice President – Chad Harmon
• 2^nd Vice President – Rich Daniels
• Secretary – Ken Proffitt
• Treasurer – John Ringenbach
• Trustees
• Paul Anderson Past President
• Fred Lederer Past President
• Phillip Jarvis
• Kyle Jones
• Mike Reed
• Phil Ringenbach
• Tim Smith
• David White
• Rick Simpson

 

• Social Media
• Maggie Butara

 

We also presented and honored the winners of our Awards for 2021

 

2021 Event Awards 

IceBreaker

March 27^th, 2021

Piedmont Lake

1^st Place – Bernie Klug

40.25” Muskie

 

 

May Madness

May 15^th, 2021

Salt Fork Lake

1^st Place – Phil Jarvis

41” Muskie

 

LungeFest

June 19^th, 2021

Leesville Lake

1^st Place – David White

45” Muskie

 

 

 

51^st Annual Summer Contest

July 10^th & 11^th, 2021

West Branch Reservoir

1^st Place – Chase Gibson

8 Muskies

101 Points

2^nd Place – Neil Butara

4 Muskies

51 Points

 

 

9^th Annual Minnow Fund Outing

September 25^th & 26^th, 2021

West Branch Reservoir

1^st Place – Corey Zelinski

2 Muskies

27 Points

2^nd Place – Jason Chalmers

2 Muskies

26.5 Points

 

 

 

2021 Overall Tournament Champion

Rick Thorp

7 Muskies

 

2021 OHMC Awards

 

Joe Blackwell “Mr. Muskie” Award 2021

Kevin Page

February 19^th, 2022

 

Curt Wagner

February 19^th, 2022

 

 

Matthew Smith Memorial Award for Juniors

Boys

Brock Bohley

46”

West Branch, July 22^nd, 2021

Cooper Marshall

46”

Piedmont Lake, March 14^th, 2021

 

Girls

Lucy Marshall

43.5”

Leesville Lake, July 15^th, 2021

 

Fifty Inch Award

Rick West

52”

Piedmont Lake, June 26^th, 2021

Charles Klingensmith

51”

Milton Lake, August 19^th, 2021

Mike McKenzie

51”

Piedmont Lake, June 29^th, 2021

Shelley Leglise

50.5”

Leesville Lake, December 10^th, 2021

Charles Alexander

50”

Piedmont Lake, July 4^th, 2021

 

 

1. E. “Pooch” Curry Award 2021

Rick West

52”

Piedmont Lake, June 26^th, 2021

 

Queen Release 2021

Shelley Leglise

50.5”

Leesville Lake, December 10^th, 2021

 

First Name	Last Name	Count	Dunmire
Patrick	Klingensmith	307	67
Mike	McKenzie	184	23
Bob	Marshall	135	20
John	Thompson	117	23
David	White	102	32
Bill	Schultz Jr.	98	14
Kyle	Jones	94	35
Robert	Basic	78	6
George	Weber	78	17
Scott	Donohew	56	15
Carl	Conrad	55	3
John	Ringenbach	53	14
Donald	Gutshall	51	9
Chris	Hoskins	50	5
Maurice	Potvin Jr.	50	7
Jim	Mayberry	47	12
Mike	Wile	46	11
Charles	Klingensmith	43	11
Thomas	Morris	40
Derek	Halas	39	3
Phillip	Jarvis	38	10
Sam	Reichenbach	34	5
Kevin	La Roche	27	8
David	Baio	26	8
Ray	Elkins	22	4
Dennis	Mitchell	22	7
Paul	Shepherd	20	5
Neil	Butara	19	3
Cooper	Marshall	18
Jim	Cook	17	5
John	Proch	16
William	Lambert	15	4
Chuck	Land Sr.	15	5
Samuel	Mitchell	15	4
David	Simmons	15
Greg	Them	15
Scott	Hale	14
Josh	Marshall	14
Kathy	Mitchell	14	6
Mike	Erwin	13	3
Patrick	Andino	12
Chuck	Harmon	12	8
Dave	Flood	10
Mark	Pauling	10
Brock	Bohley		3
Brody	Smith		3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our 61th Annual Ohio Huskie Muskie Club business
meeting and awards banquet will be on Saturday, February 19,
2022 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 2022. All members
are urged to attend. During the business meeting, you will be
electing new officers and choosing your 2023 Summer Contest
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 $30 per
person for adults and $15 for children age 10 and under.
We will be keeping an eye on CDC Covid announcements and
ask that you comply with whatever the current state of mask
wearing is in February.

You can register for the Banquet on line at the following site:

https://bit.ly/2022Banquet

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, 17712 Edgewater Dr., Lakewood, Ohio 44107

The mail in form can be found here:

https://ohmci.org/wp-content/

So…Who’s ready for 2022?  Here is all the information about our upcoming year’s events

 

2022 Banquet

Saturday, February 19, 2022 at the SYB Party Center, 4157 Hudson Dr, Stow, OH 44224

 

IceBreaker

Saturday, March 26, 2022 at Piedmont Lake

One day tournament with winner being longest fish caught.

May Madness

Saturday, May 14, 2022 at Salt Fork Lake

One day tournament with winner being longest fish caught; also special cash pool for those interested.

LungeFest

Saturday, June 11, 2022 at Leesville Lake

One day tournament with winner being longest fish caught.

52nd Annual Summer Contest

July 9th and July 10th at Pymatuning Lake

Two day tournament with winner being total points for the event.

10th Annual Minnow Fund Outing

Saturday, October 1st at  West Branch Reservoir

One day tournament with winner being longest fish caught.

The final event of 2021 is our 9^th Annual Minnow Fund Outing at West Branch on Saturday September 25^th and Sunday September 26^th.  Given that we are in a pre-turnover period, the fish should be feeding heavy to begin bulking up for the winter.  The tournament will run from 7:00 am Saturday to 2:00 pm Sunday.  Tournament registration is online at

 

https://bit.ly/2021MinnowFund

 

You can also register in person at the West Ramp of West Branch from 6:00 am to 8:00 am on Saturday.  All fish must be turned in to the tournament director by 2:30 pm on Sunday at the West Ramp.

All entries fees will go directly into the Minnow Fund.  We will not be having any raffles, so any donations also would be very much appreciated and would go directly into the Minnow Fund.  Entry fee is $20 with a Big Fish pool of $5 if you chose to participate.  First and second place will receive trophies at our banquet in 2022.  Scoring will be based on points with each fish 30” or greater getting 4 points for the fish and additional points for every inch over 30 inches.   For example, a 42.5” fish would earn 4 points plus 12.5 points for a total of 16.5 points.  The winner will be the highest total points for the weekend.  All fish entered will be based on a honor system, no pictures are required but please take some pictures of your fish for our Instagram and Facebook pages.

What a fun weekend for the Summer Contest at West Branch.  Saturday was a calm nice summer day with a few weekend boaters to increase the  drama.  Sunday kept them away with fairly steady rain from 9 am until closing a 2 pm.  We had 45 anglers sign up to fish the event, with a total of 28 fish caught.   Leading the way with 8 fish, and winning not only the event but the Big Fish pool was Chase Gibson.  This was Chase’s first time fishing one of Ohio’s program lakes, and he was very impressed with the quality and size of the muskie.   He hopes West Virginia DNR can take a page from the Ohio book.  Chase caught his fish casting and jigging deeper waters.  Second place was captured by Neil Butara with 4 fish.  Unlike Chase, Neil was able to find his fish shallow, fishing weed beds.  Congratulations to Chase and Neil for their success over the weekend.  Here is a list of the fish reported and some pictures:

Chase Gibson 37″, 41″, 31.75″, 40.5″, 40″, 38.75″, 36.75″, 43.25″.

Neil Butara 36″, 38″, 41′, 40″

Bob Basic  43″ and 38″

Adam Boneham  37″

Phil Ringenbach  41.75″

Chris Daniels 42″

Chad Harmon 36″

Rick Thorp 37″

Tim Smith 38″

Brian Luttmer 38″ and 32.5″

Graham Hardesty  32″ and 33″

Brad Clement  42.5″

John Ringenbach  35″

Tim Grant  31″ and 36″