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About Us
The Chicago Anglers Club meets twice 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 invites all adults, children, parents & relatives to join
and will promote the sport of fishing and the environment throughout
the year using a series of seminars and fishing competitions. We promote
catch and release fishing on our local lakes and forest preserve ponds!
Chicagoland Anglers’
Club
The Midwest’s premier club for learning the art of bank angling
is in its first official season this year. 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 for information on joining today.
Club Focus
The club was formed this year and expects to attract 24 – 50 new
members in 2003. 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. If you have never tied a line or fished we welcome you to come
and observe, ask questions and learn with us. We feature an overall
competition as well as a rod & reel division for newer anglers to
separate them from advanced pole anglers. To join, click here for more
information.
The club's eventual goal will be to raise money to improve fishing habitat
working with the park district and D.N.R. locally. We will also leave
all venues cleaner than when we arrived. Each outing the fishing club
members will be responsible for cleaning the bank around them and on
the way to the spot.
Causes like collecting tangled fishing line from the shore to prevent
birds & animals from becoming trapped will be addressed with the
club. If you have never seen a bird caught in old monofilament line,
it is a sad site. Just this Spring we observed a young goose with (obviously
heavy) discarded fishing line wrapped around it's chest and body. The
goose was forced to grow with the fishing line a permanent fixture creating
a "belt" and visible thin area where the line was stuck. Most
members in our club use 4 lb. & 6 lb. line but all lines are dangerous.
Patrolling the bank to clean up spare line is one of our goals to improve
the environment.
The Club of Clubs
The Chicagoland Anglers Club takes advantage of our local outdoors.
We start with local lakes and ponds and work on catching a lot of fish.
Sometimes fewer than 10 are caught, but other times we will catch fish
in the 100s! Our club founder's recorded is 512 fish in 4 hours!
By watching or fishing with us, you will learn new techniques to catch
a lot more fish than you ever did! Several of our members use modern
equipment but techniques that have been used for centuries to create
the ultimate in ultra light presentations with size 16 - 20 hooks, 1.5
lb. lines and tiny floats that are smaller than dimes. If you truly
want to learn a new way to fish live bait- get out with us!
The nearer the place to fish 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. There are a lot of fish in our local lakes,
but most fishing techniques eliminate the chance of anglers catching
fish--
A lot of America drives over 3 hours to go to a fishing spot, but our
club believes in catching fish instead of driving. You will be amazed
at how many fish are in our local lakes! The nice thing about our contests
is that all fish are kept in live keep nets in the water. At the end,
we can all see the fish caught on the day by each angler as the fish
are weighed. Every fish is released as our club teaches catch &
release fishing on our local waters.
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. You are welcome to come fish a competition
with your lures and equipment, but be open to new techniques and you
will learn a lot!
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. Don't
be shy- come and see an event or fish as a guest!
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 move 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. At the beginning of each competition, our
members will be available to teach you knots or help you setup. Just
ask any questions at the draw and find a member to sit near during the
setup time.
There will be a good :45 minutes where you can get help on catching
fish and techniques that will work with the current conditions of the
lake/river we are fishing on the day. You will find that our club members
will be happy to give you tips on which species to spend time on and
what to do on that water. We want you to catch fish and take pride in
your fishing success. There is no such thing as a dumb question!
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 raffles, club gear and access to the special
members’ only area of ChicagoAngler.com. Once inside, you will
be able to see on-line 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.
Cost of the Club
Want to get in on the fishing and all the great stuff? Annual membership
to the club is only $25 which includes your annual dues, members-only
web site access, 6 newsletters and access to all club outings and seminars.
New members will be able to download a money saving coupon.
Junior Members can join for only $15 under 16 years old!
Other memberships are available including a family membership for $45
that includes one adult and two children. Additional children/family
members $10 each annually. Children 7 & under can fish with you
for free! Click
here to join or attend our next event. See the schedule section
for details on where we will be for our next outting!