March
2009 Speaker -
IL
RUSS WARYE
“Fishing The Big Four
Canadian Waters”
Lac Seul, Lake of the
Woods, Rainy Lake & Eagle
Lake
March 25th - Illinois
Russ Warye
Russ
Warye is an author of
fishing books, seminar
speaker, guide, fishing
educator/teacher,
recognized freshwater
fisheries researcher and
activist on clean water
issues. Russ is the former
senior research editor and
fishing spokesman for
Fishing Hot Spots.
His
background includes college
and high school teaching,
newspaper editor, outdoor
writer, radio host, public
speaker on
environmental/fishing
issues, and tournament
bass/muskie angler. Warye
is proud to be known as an
activist for clean water
and fishing issues,
including preserving the
Clean Water Act and
catch-and-release ethic. He
has served on several
Wisconsin DNR ad-hoc
citizen committees.
He is a
licensed guide (including
Coast Guard) concentrating
on smallmouth bass and
muskie. During the summer
months he spends up to
eight weeks teaching
fishing at Witch Bay
Camp, a famous fishing
camp on Lake of the Woods
Additionally, when not
fishing he is writing, and
authored numerous FHS books
as well as three major
books of a destination
series – Smallmouth –
America’s Top Bass Waters;
Walleye – The Top
Lakes and Rivers of North
America; and Muskie
– The Premier Waters of
North America.
Warye also authored the
first ever book on
Michigan’s famous bass
fishing region, the
Sylvania Tract in the Upper
Peninsula titled Fish
Sylvania.
Russ has
eight new & accurate
Northern Wisconsin fishing
books that will be
available at the meeting.
The books are 8˝ x 11 in
size to provide superior
lake maps including
accurate GPS shorelines and
˝ minute intercepts on
larger waters. They are:
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BOULDER
JUNCTION & MANITOWISH
WATERS REGION |
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PRESQUE
ISLE & MANITOWISH WATERS
REGION |
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MERCER &
TURTLE-FLAMBEAU |
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ST.
GERMAIN, SAYNER, STAR
LAKE REGION |
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MINOCQUA
REGION |
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CISCO
CHAIN, LAND O’ LAKES,
PHELPS, CONOVER REGION
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EAGLE
RIVER & THREE LAKES CHAIN
REGION |
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CHIPPEWA
FLOWAGE, HAYWARD, SAWYER
COUNTY REGION
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