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About
Us
The Chicago Anglers Club meets at least monthly during
the Spring summer and fall to compete, meet, catch fish and learn. Mini
seminars will be featured throughout the season along with a pre-season
introductory seminar to all new members at the annual meeting.
We fish local lakes and waters using floats, rods, poles and live bait.
The point of the club is to grow fishing locally, give anglers a place
to learn new techniques, meet other anglers and to grow their own fishing
skills.
The club was formed this year and expects to attract 24 – 50 new
members this year. To join, click here for more information.
All abilities are welcome to compete, but the club is and will be built
on the education of anglers who wish to catch more fish. As the season
goes on, a handicapping system will be put in place to level the field
for anglers with less experience or ability.
The club will also raise money to provide money to improve fishing habitat
working with the park district and D.N.R. to improve habitat & fish
population locally. We will also leave the venues cleaner than when
we came. Each outing the fishing club members will be responsible for
cleaning the bank around them and on the way to the spot..
Modern Fishing in the U.S.
America has been stuck in a fishing rut for several years all because
of the big TV shows and bass tournamentsbt, distort what real fishing
is supposed to be. Fishing is supposed to be going fishing several times
in a month near you. Simple, getting outdoors and catching fish. Here
is the condition of modern fishing.
A. Go to a remote, exotic lodge
B. Jump in your $25,000 “Basssss” boat (why is it that you
can only catch one species out of these boats?)
C. Take out one of your three 6 -foot tall tackle boxes filled with
$2,500 in lures purchased in sets of 15 of the same lure in different
color combinations.
D. Place your electronic device of choice (sonar, GPS, temperature gauge)
in the water
E. Head in for lunch when it “must be too hot” for the bass
to feed after hours of casting.
Real fishing is grabbing your gear and driving less than 10 minutes
to a local spot. Find a nice spot on the bank, enjoy the outdoors and
rig up. Begin catching fish and enjoy.
Chicagoland Anglers’ Club
The Midwest’s premier club for learning the art of fishing. The
entire club is based on educating kids, families and adults on the art
of catching fish from local waters. The thought of taking the kids and
heading hours in the car to a strange lake just to sit fishless will
be a thing of the past. Click here to join today.
The Club of Clubs
The Chicagoland Anglers Club is being launched to reverse all this.
We start with local lakes and ponds and work on catching fish. Sometimes
fewer than 10 but other times we will catch fish in the 100s.
The nearer to you the better, as you can go fish for 1 hour after work,
or 2 to 3 hours on a weekend while driving under 10 minutes to get there.
Keep your boat in the garage, we will be
fishing from shore and learning how to fish rather than learning how
the wind blows you around in your boat. As far as lures, fish don’t
eat lures in the wild so we won’t be using them either. Electronics
will not be used to help us find fish as where we are fishing there
will be hundreds of fish right in front of you most any lake we fish.
Lastly, if you want to catch over 100 fish including some giant 10 -pound
plus fish in 4 hours, this is the club for you. . If you want to catch
a lot of fish and become good at fishing, this club is a must.
Instructional Club
Members of the U.S. Fishing Team along with other experienced celebrity
guests will be teaching you how to catch fish. Starting with basics,
each season we will get the club up to speed and teach the basic techniques
such as knots, rigs, set ups, to catch all types of fish near you. Once
everyone has grasped the basics, the sessions will increase to techniques
and how-to demonstrations in the class and on the bank. To top it all
off there will be several fishing competitions during the year to “test”
what we have all learned together along with an annual giant area show-down
tournament that will cap our season with big prizes and competitors
from all over the Midwest.
What else is in store for me in the Chicagoland Anglers Club?
Through your Club membership you will receive the monthly club newsletter
and be eligible for tackle give-aways, club gear and access to the special
members’ only area of ChicagoAngler.com. Once in side, you will
be able to see online lessons, get tips and also receive tackle discounts
on all ChicagoAngler.com tackle purchases and get “first choice”
of new tackle offerings via members only previews.
The club is presented by members of the American Fishing Association.
The organization’s goal is to expand the sport of fishing with
kids, women, family, physically challenged anglers and ex-anglers. The
way to do this is through success. We create the events, seminars and
web site education to further the sport and increase the enjoyment of
local fishing. Only through increased local fishing can the sport of
fishing reward us and grow. Exotic and expensive complex fishing is
only for a few while the resources of America’s local outdoors
go under appreciated and unused. Through awareness, proper usage and
education, local fishing will improve our waters and facilities creating
a new era of fishing as a sport. That of catching fish.