Meetings

The Yahara Fishing Club meets the second Wednesday of each month, September thru May, at Bowl-a-Vard Lanes on 2121 E. Springs Drive by East Towne Mall  Meetings start at 7:00 pm and are FREE and open to the public.   Meetings include fishing reports, a raffle, speakers, a February auction and an annual  fishing contest.

June, July and August feature “On the Water” meetings with an emphasis on food, beverage and getting out to fish. These meetings are held at different areas on the Madison chain.

 If you like to fish, come join the Yahara Fishing Club!

Join us at the next club meeting :

Bowl-a-Vard Lanes on 2121 E. Springs Drive, Madison, WI

YFC mini fishing workshops  

In an effort to help club members increase their fishing knowledge the board wants to set up a time for small groups to get together at 6:00pm on the day of the regular monthly YFC meeting and meet for thirty minutes (give or take) until 6:45 pm. These small groups will have a discussion and or demonstration about an area they have an interest in to improve their fishing knowledge and skills.

At this time the board, wants to get input from our members on what topics they would like to cover in these small group sessions. If you are interested in a certain topic would you be willing to be a facilitator of that session?

We ask all of our members to look at the list below to find out to what they would like to have discussed in these small group sessions and if they would be interested in mentoring some of the sessions.

  1. How to set up and operate various fishing technology:
    1. HumminBird, Lowrance, Marcum, Vexilar depth finders
      1. Initial set up
      2. Understanding the menu
      3. Down imaging
      4. Side imaging
      5. Sonar
      6. Making your own maps
    2. Underwater cameras Aqua Vu
      1. Initial set up
      2. Understanding the menu
    3. Trolling motors set up and features and using them with depth finder
    4. Lake mapping computer programs
      1. Lake master series
      2. Navionics
      3. Lake master plus
      4. Smart strike
  2. Fishing tackle skills:
    1. How to tie fishing knots such as double surgeon knot, blood knot, trilene knot, etc.
    2. How to make custom lures and jigs and kits
    3. How to read topographic maps for use on lakes and rivers.
    4. Making your own leaders
    5. Tips on using jigs, top water baits, crankbaits, swim baits and artificial worms
    6. How to use Ned Rigs
  3. How and where to locate fish in the Madison chain of lakes:
    1. Learn when and where to find different fish, species-based fish behavior, daily weather changes, different times of the of the year
    2. Learn fish aquatics and what make fish locate in different areas.
  4. How to interpret solar and lunar cycles and lunar fishing calendars and how they relate to fishing.
  5. What do you need to take on an outing when you want to catch certain kinds of fish?
    1. What to take for bass
    2. What to take for walleye
    3. What to take for Bluegills and Crappie (panfish)
    4. What to take for Perch
    5. What to take for Northern
    6. What to take for Muskie
    7. What take for Catfish
  6. Boat and trailer set up and repair

The above items are only suggestions, and we encourage members to add other ideas. Board member Ken Terrill is taking the lead on this new initiative so please send him the subject areas that you would like to learn more about. If you are interested in facilitating one of these sessions please let Ken know that as well.

You can email ken.terrill3011@gmail.com or call him at 608-358-0453.

Please feel free to contact any board member about your thoughts on this new initiative for club members.

 

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