  North Platte Walleyes Unlimited takes to the road with its trailer. North Platte WU Newsletter Editor at the Game and Fish building Our meetings are the first Thursday of the month A huge THANK YOU goes out to everyone that helped make our 7th Annual All You Can Eat Walleye banquet a success. We had over 400 people attend this year! Down a little from 2009 but about what we expected. With your support and the support of the many businesses within the area the club raised over $20,000 to go towards our charitable contributions throughout Wyoming, including providing fishing poles to children at the Sportsmans Expo and Yessness Pond fishing derby. A special thanks to Woody who was unable to attend the banquet due to an illness, but did somehow seem to make sure that all of brochures and signs were made. Not sure how he gets it all done but always does a great job. Thanks to LaCinda who does just a fantastic job with the money side of things, there is no way this could possibly happen without her. And lets not forget the group we had at the Parkway Plaza the Thursday night before the banquet where we skinned 400 pounds of walleye in what I think was a new record time. The club has been given 2 commissioner tags to be auctioned or sold to the highest bidder. We did sell the first commissioner tag for the price of $9,000. We are still taking bids for the second tag. Please have them contact Brian Woodward at 307-258-8898 if they are interested. I would also like to encourage all members to attend our monthly meeting. We will be doing some presentations over the next couple of months on how to find and catch those springtime walleyes. The meetings are also a great way to get your input on how we can use our funds throughout the community. We are always looking for new events to be involved with. Last but not least. As many of you know, the Game and Fish Department has been working hard at preserving our waters here in Wyoming to protect from aquatic nuisances house bill 18 passed the week of March 15th. This will allow G&F the authority to protect the waters as they see fit. Word is that beginning Memorial Day, the G&F will be doing boat and trailer inspections on all boats and rafts that are put into any body of water in Wyoming. Our input and feedback will be critical here as this could change how we access our waters in the future. They will be looking at boats, trailers, livewells, etc for signs of zebra and quagga mussels. It is extremely important that we as responsible boaters make sure we are doing everything possible to insure we are doing what we can to help protect our waters. Please make sure that you keep your boats clean. Make sure trailers are clean and no moss or weeds are hanging off the bunks. Live wells must be emptied each trip and recommended to be sanitized with a mild water and bleach solution. At this time we are not sure how the inspection process is going to work. On some bodies of water it may be as simple as the boater filling out a self evaluation confirming they are clean and clear of the aquatic nuisances. In other instances you may be stopped on the boat ramp or other designated location to be inspected before entering the water. At this time G&F is putting these rules and regulations together. We will let you know more when we know. Brian Woodward NPWU President Al Condor, regional fisheries supervisor of the Wyoming Game and Fish Dept. will be on hand at our April meeting to give us information on the 2009 gill net surveys of area lakes and on the up to date info on the boat inspections for invasive species starting soon. We have begun meeting with representatives of Game and Fish and the Casper Dept of recreation for planning on the Kids Fishing Day at Harry Yesness Pond that will be held on June 5. We will need volunteers to help. Toughman Tournament The “Toughman Tournament” is on Saturday, April 24th. This has always been a perfect fishing day as long as you don’t mind a bit of snow, ice, cold, blowing wind, and a slow bite. This is more of a membership drive than a fund raiser. Actually we try to lose a few bucks during the tournament. Applications for the toughman will be in next months newsletter and are available online at our web site. Tournament launch and weigh in will be at the Alcova Marina and all team captains will be required to check in prior to launch. Fishing reports Area lakes are still ice covered as this is written. My guess is that we will be able to put boats on Glendo and Alcova in the next few days. Snowpack data for the upper North Platte Drainage looks good at over 90% of average. One more good snow fall south of Rawlins and a couple of closed interstate 80 should do it. Seminoe Reservoir is at 68% of full pool and is starting to fill a bit. Pathfinder is at 72% full and should increase capacity for the next few months. Calendar of events April is National Welding Month April 3rd is Tweed Day April 15th is Rubber Eraser Day April 25-30 is National Karaoke Week April 30th is Hairstyle Appreciation Day Notable quotes and space fillers “I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?’” Jerry Seinfield “A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.” Benjamin Franklin “There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.” Henry George These businesses support us We would like to thank again all the sponsors and donors. We appreciate the support. Sportman’s Warehouse 4120 East 2nd Street Casper, WY 82609-2319 307-233-3700 Steve Clark- Crushco 5696 Hanly St. Mtn View 307-265-0020 Casper Orthopedics 4140 Centennial Hills Blvd. Casper 307-265-7205 Nelico Equipment 109 Progress Circle Casper, 307-234-7855 Coates Construction 6111 Glen Drive Casper 307-235-1515 Hilltop National Bank 300 Country Club Rd Casper, WY 307-265-2740 Platte River Builders, Inc. 251 N. Jefferson Casper, WY 307-577-1244 Anchor Electric Inc. Casper 307-234-8799 JW Williams Inc. 3534 N Salt Creek Hwy. Casper 307-224-0036 Stalkups RV Superstore 501 West Yellowstone Hwy Casper 307-577-9350 Stoink Wilson Supply Co 6577 W. Yellowstone Hwy Casper 307-472-5768 Casper Well Products 1241 E Yellowstone Hwy. Casper 307-235-1473 MC Enterprises 6305 W Yellowstone Hwy Casper 307-265-2596 Jeff Svejkovsky-Ridgeline 8540 Hwy 220 Casper 307-262-0262 Chatters Bar & Grill 1324 Prairie Ln. Bar Nunn 307-234-5329 Precision Prostetic & Orthontics LLC 5810 E. Second St. Ste 300 Casper 307-237-3271 Overhead Door Company of Casper, Inc. 2760 Fleet wood Place Casper, WY 307-265-6614 Wilson Supply Company 6577 W Yellowstone Hwy 307-472-5768 Ken Mayer - Bank of America Home Loans - 307-277-0149 Overman Realty 1411 E. Second St. Casper, WY 307-472-1363 Rob Davis-Wyoming Walleye Circuit Casper 307-266-2756 McKendree Trucking Inc. 5708 Old Yellowstone Hwy Casper, WY 307-237-9692 Stenco Inc. 1465 Willer Drive Casper 307-235-4631 A1 Used Tires 400 W. Yellowstone Hwy Casper 307-234-8463 Scenic Construction Casper On the lighter side True Quotes about Science from Kids One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second. You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don’t hear it, you got hit, so never mind. When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions. When people run around and around in circles, we say they are crazy. When planets do it, we say they are orbiting. While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating. Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change into a sun in the daytime. A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go. Many dead animals of the past changed to fossils, others preferred to become oil. Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they are there. Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers. We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on. I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing. In making rain water, it takes everything from H to O. Rain is saved up in cloud banks. Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog’s tongue will kill the strongest man. Thunder is a rich source of loudness. Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound. It is so hot in some parts of the world that the people there have to live in other places. H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water. To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube. When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide. Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water. Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes and caterpillars. Blood flows down one leg and up the other. Respiration is composed of two acts, first inspiration, and then expectoration. The moon is a planet, just like the earth, only it is even deader. Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire. The pistol of a flower is its only protections against insects. The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been taken out and the outsides have been taken off. The purpose of the skeleton is something to hitch meat to. A permanent set of teeth consist of eight canines, eight cuspids, two molars, and eight cuspidors. The tides are a fight between the earth and moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight. A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is. Germinate: To become a naturalized German. Liter: A nest of young puppies. Magnet: Something you find crawling all over a dead cat. Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away. Planet: A body of Earth surrounded by sky. Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot. Vacuum: A large, empty space where the Pope lives. For dog bite put the dog away for several days. If he has not recovered, then kill it. To keep milk from turning sour, keep it in the cow. The half-wit A man owned a small farm in Northern Missouri. The State of Missouri Wage & Hours Department claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to interview him. “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them”, demanded the Agent. “Well,” replied the farmer, “there’s my farm hand who’s been with me for 3 years. I pay him $400 a week plus free room and board. The cook has been here for 18 month, and I pay her $300 per week plus free room and board. "Then there’s the half-wit. He works about 16 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10.00 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of Bourbon every Saturday night. He also sleeps with my wife occasionally." “That’s the guy I want to talk to.....the half-wit” says the Agent. “That would be me” replied the farmer. Woody Tight Lines -- Woody G. |
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