Knee Deep Fishing Club - 2021 Schedule

I want to start out by saying 2020 was a crazy year. I hope that we never have to go through something like that again. We’re still not out of the woods yet with this second wave of the virus going around. The good news is we do have vaccines coming, so hopefully things will get back to normal before the summer. As of right now the club is in a holding pattern for meetings and other large events. We still will be running our 2021 contests. Here is a list of the fishing contests:

January/February/March-Ice fishing contests (TBD)
April 18th is our Trout and Pickerel contest
May 2nd is our Panfish challenge contest
May 22nd & 23rd is our spring Walleye contest
June 27th is our Stew Lant Bass contest
July 10th & 11th is our summer Striper contest
August 7th & 8th is our Catfish contest
September 18th & 19th is our fall Striper contest
October 2nd & 3rd is our fall Walleye contest

So, as we start 2021 I would like to say this is the club’s 75th anniversary'. The club had some ideas of holding a celebration, but with all that’s going on were not sure if we will be able to pull it off. We have not been able to hold any trustee meetings, so it has been tough to plan and talk about things. Think about it though this club has been around for 75 years and that is amazing. I would like to recognize our past presidents of the club:

Herbert H. Spencer, 1946	Frank J. Atterbury, 1989-1990
John J Dugan, 1947-1948	Thomas McCormick, 1991-1994
Alfred G. Birkenmeier, 1949-1951	Tim Clancey, 1995-1998
John B. Robinson, 1953	Lou Marcucci, 1999-2002
Roland Evesn, 1953-1954	Jim Salerno, 2003 2004
George Dutcher, 1955-1956	Laura Morris, 2005
Leo August, 1957-1960	Board of Directors, 2006
John J. Roth, 1961-1964	Chuck Waltz, 2007-2008
Rudy Meiele, 1965 1966	Les Aughey, 2009-2011
John Kappock, 1967	Board of Directors, 2012
Stewart G. Lant, 1968-1972	Brad Garie, 2013
Howard E. Doll, 1973-1976	Eddie Mackin, 2014-2017
Steve Guerriero, 1977-1984	Don Gardner, 2018-2019

Here are all our presidents for the 75 years and a big thank you to all of them for keeping this wonderful fishing club going all these years.

So, as of now for 2021 we will wait and see how things go. We had to cancel almost everything last year and the club is hoping we don’t have to do that again. They are predicting the vaccine could reach everyone by the spring. I hope that is the case and we can save the summer and maybe hold some of our special events like our veterans event, our junior derby and maybe celebrate our 75-year anniversary. Until then, we hope to have some safe ice this year and maybe pull off an ice fishing contest, which is always a great event for the club. We usually get over 100 entries. Hope to see you on the lake.