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Lake Michigan fishing tournament nears and more in Bob Schuh's Manitowoc outdoors report

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Westshore Sportsman’s Club, 11267 Lakeshore Road, Two Rivers, will hold its 23rd annual Lake Michigan Fishing Tournament Aug. 19.

Registration is from 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 18 only at the club and the captains’ meeting is at 7 p.m. that day.

Entry fee is $50 per boat and $5 per person.

Top four fish in each of the five species will be winners. First place has the chance to win the top prize of $1,000 and the runner-up wins $500. The tournament has a 100% payout.

Fishing begins at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 19. Weigh-in starts at noon Aug. 19 and you must be in line by 1 p.m. Aug. 19.

The club will open at 10 a.m. Aug. 19 and food will be ready at noon that day. There will be cold refreshments, a 50-50 raffle and bucket raffle.

Contact Mike Krizizke at 920-860-0754 or go to westshoresportsmanclub.org for more information.

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Nel Spangler (from left) of the Maribel Youth Trap Program; Larry Kobes, treasurer of the Mishicot Sportsmen’s Club; and Sarah Schmidt of the Maribel Youth Trap Program received a $500 check from the Mishicot Sportsmen’s Club to help offset the cost of the trap shooting for youth. The public’s help is always welcome to all the youth teams shooting in our county. Thank you, Mishicot, and don’t forget the Mishicot Sportsmen’s Club Archery Tournament is coming up starting at 8 a.m. both Aug. 19 and 20 at their Jambo Creek Clubhouse property.

Maribel club offers progressive Lewis shoot Aug. 19

Maribel Sportsman’s Club will hold a progressive Lewis shoot Aug. 19.

Registration will be from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Trap No. 1 will be 20-yard wobble and trap No. 2 will be reverse progressive from the 19-yard-line to the 23-yard-line.

This is a fundraising shoot so progress on the new building can continue.

Maribel Sportsman’s Club is next to Interstate 43, exit 164, State 147, Maribel.

Reminder: Larrabee club’s pancake and porkie fundraising breakfast is Aug. 13

Larrabee Sportsmans Club will hold a pancake and porkie fundraising breakfast Aug. 13.

Serving will be from 8 to 11 a.m. at their clubhouse on Harpt’s Lake. Proceeds will go to the Mishicot FFA Trap Team.

Bonus antlerless harvest authorizations go on sale Aug. 14

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has announced bonus antlerless harvest authorizations, formerly known as tags, for the 2023 gun deer season will be available for purchase online through the Go Wild license portal and at license sales locations starting at 10 a.m. Aug. 14, 2023.

Bonus authorizations are sold at a rate of one per person per day until sold out, or until the 2023 deer hunting season ends.

Bonus authorizations are $12 each for Wisconsin residents, $20 each for non-residents and $5 each for youth ages 11 and younger.

On the date of the sale at 9:45 a.m., an online queuing system will be used to manage volume in Go Wild. At 10 a.m., all online users who are on the site will be randomly assigned a number and staged into a “virtual” line regardless of the actual time they entered the system. There is no advantage for customers who enter the site before 9:45 a.m. Hunters who log on after 10 a.m. will be added to the end of the existing queue in the order in which they arrive.

To complete their purchase, hunters will need to know the deer management zone and unit in which they intend to hunt. They will also need to determine whether they will hunt on public or private land to make their purchase.

The first three days of bonus sales are management zone-specific, and the fourth day is open to all zones. Here’s the schedule:

  • Aug. 14, 10 a.m. — Forest Zones (Northern and Central);

  • Aug. 15, 10 a.m. — Central Farmland Zone;l

  • Aug. 16, 10 a.m. — Southern Farmland Zone; and

  • Aug. 17, 10 a.m. — All zones available.

The number of antlerless harvest opportunities will vary by deer management unit in accordance with local deer population levels. This allows for greater harvest opportunities where deer are abundant and a more conservative harvest where deer are fewer in number.

Bonus antlerless harvest authorizations are available for purchase for the 2023 season in all deer management units except Iron County.

A listing of bonus antlerless harvest authorizations available for purchase in each management unit can be found on the DNR’s Antlerless Deer Harvest Authorization webpage.

As a reminder, a minimum of one Farmland (Zone 2) antlerless harvest authorization is included with each deer hunting license purchase in all Farmland Zone units. Some units will offer more than one antlerless deer harvest authorization with each deer license.

For more about deer hunting in Wisconsin, visit the DNR’s Deer Hunting webpage.

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Larrabee archery tournament is Aug. 12-13

Larrabee Sportsmans Club will hold its archery tournament Aug. 12 and 13.

This is a 3-D shoot with registration from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Adults are $10 while youth 12 and younger shoot for free.

Don’t forget the pancake and porkie breakfast on Aug. 13 from 8 to 11 a.m. to benefit the Mishicot FFA Trap Team at their clubhouse. Other food and refreshments will be available all day. All classes welcome.

That’s it for this week, so have fun in the great outdoors.

Outdoors columnist Bob Schuh’s “Scoping the Great Outdoors” column appears each Sunday in the Herald Times Reporter. He can be reached at 920-682-3106 or bobschuh@lsol.net.

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