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SATURDAY, MARCH 7
3:00 to 9:00 PM
American Legion Hall, Elmhurst (click for map)
Dinner, speakers, raffles, silent auctions
$25 per person
Al Agnew, Featured Speaker
A native of the Missouri Ozarks, Al Agnew is a wildlife artist who is renowned for his paintings of North American animals, birds, and fish. He paints smallmouth bass with the highest degree of accuracy and authenticity because he is also an avid stream smallmouth angler, and is considered one of the foremost authorities on smallmouth fishing in Missouri. Al has fished for smallmouths in nearly all the rivers of the Ozarks, as well as streams in Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, California, Hawaii, and Ontario.
Al grew up living less than a mile from one of Missouri’s best smallmouth streams, and from the time he was nine years old he was riding his bike to the river nearly every day to fish for bronzebacks. He started floating the streams in an old 12-foot johnboat when he was twelve, and bought his first canoe at the age of seventeen. Since then he estimates he has covered nearly 10,000 miles of smallmouth rivers in canoes and other watercraft. Al makes many of his own lures, including a wooden crankbait and a bucktail spinnerbait that he says are two of the best stream smallmouth lures he has ever used, so good that he doesn’t sell them and is hesitant to describe them. He says you have to fish with him to see them!
Al now lives with his wife Mary in the eastern Missouri Ozarks in a home they designed, on 40 acres of forest and fields with a bass-filled pond next to the house, and his favorite smallmouth stream is still the one he fished as a boy.
Kraig McPeek, Guest Speaker
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Private Lands Coordinator
For the past 4 years, Kraig has worked as a Private Lands Biologist at the Rock Island Field Office where he provides technical and financial support for stream, wetland, and upland habitat restorations. Kraig has been involved heavily in stream restoration projects and initiatives. He currently serves as secretary/treasurer of the Rivers and Streams Technical Committee. This committee was formed by the north central division of the American Fisheries Society to provide insight and expertise to small and large streams throughout the Midwest. Additionally, Kraig serves on the fisheries subcommittee for the state of Iowa on implementation of the state wildlife action plan.
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Illinois Smallmouth Alliance
Mail check to:
ISA Blowout
828 Tamms Lane
Bolingbrook, IL 60440
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