Mishicot trap team finishes 135th in nation, in Bob Schuh’s weekly outdoors report

Here are some of the stats from the USA High School Clay Target League National Championship held in Mason, Michigan, July 5-9.

Six shooters from the Mishicot School District represented the trap team. Shooters included Fischer Schaus, Vanessa Paquette, Emma Schmidt, Logan Murphy, McKenzie Wotachek and alternate Josh Schmidt.

The Mishicot Trap Team placed 135th out of 240 teams. They broke a total of 449 of 500 clays.

Schaus broke 95 of 100 targets, Paquette broke 94 of 100 targets, Wotachek broke 91 of 100 targets, Murphy broke 85 of 100 targets and Emma Schmidt broke 84 of 100 targets.

Individual rounds on Saturday: Schaus broke 99 of 100 targets, Paquette broke 91 of 100 targets, Emma Schmidt broke 90 of 100 targets, Wotachek broke 88 of 100 targets and Murphy broke 86 of 100 targets.

The top 400 shooters then competed on Sunday and Schaus qualified by placing 51st.

Sunday during the individual championship round, Schaus shot 97 of 100.

Overall rankings out of 1,718 shooters: Schaus was 115th, Paquette was 843th, Emma Schmidt was 1,028th, Wotachek was 1,188th and Murphy was 1,366th.

Female rankings out of 259 shooters: Paquette was 105th, Emma Schmidt was 140th and Wotachek was 165th.

Male rankings out of 1,459 shooters: Schaus was 47th and Murphy was 1,179th.

Paquette earned two 25 patches, Schaus earned two 50 patches and two 25 patches, and Emma Schmidt earned one 25 patch.

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If you go further and break this down from all the kids in total who shoot this league for schools nationally, it looks even more amazing. There are 34,629 shooters in the league nationally. Now, look at where the Mishicot shooters finished once more. Unbelievable!

These kids are awesome! This group of shooters does their league and practice shooting at Maribel Sportsman’s Club.

Challenge the Outdoors fishers score 10 fish on annual Lake Michigan trip

Challenge the Outdoors recently held its annual Lake Michigan fishing trip out of the port of Algoma.

It was an afternoon run and the weather was perfect. Some 12 CTO members took part in the event, so we had six people per boat.

This year, the boat I was on was owned and captained by Stuart Fenendael, Michigan Addiction Charters (920-784-3038), and was 50 feet in length.

On a boat that size, we all had plenty of room to move around. When we got to the spot Captain Stuart decided to fish, the throttles were pulled back and Stuart and his first mate started setting lines.

It didn’t take long and the first rod bucked and the reel started to sing as the line peeled out. After a considerable fight, a 20-pound-plus king salmon came to the net.

The action didn’t stop there as the afternoon had several other bites and two more kings and two rainbow trout were brought to the net.

We ended up with five fish on our boat with three of them being kings at or more than the 20-pound mark.

The second boat also had five fish for the afternoon, so all the fishermen were happy with their catch.

Fish were then cleaned and split up into packages. On this event, we split up the fish, so everyone at least gets a meal of fresh fish.

Photos were taken of the group and the fish, and we were all treated to some sub sandwiches, bottles of water and some cookies.

CTO provides these kinds of events for their members who have a disability. Go to ctoforme.org and check out all the activities they offer to their members.

Cleveland Fishing Derby will be July 28-30 at Hika Park

The 41st annual Cleveland Fishing Derby at Hika Park will be July 28-30.

Fish tickets are available at Dassler Sales and Service and the Fish and Game clubhouse in Cleveland, The Wharf in Sheboygan, Terry’s Bait and Tackle in Plymouth, and Klein Hardware and Seagull Marina in Two Rivers.

Fish registration will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. July 28, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. July 29 and 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. July 30.

A Super Derby will be held the morning of July 29 and interested captains are asked to attend a captains’ meeting at 7 p.m. July 28 at derby headquarters.

Food, refreshments and raffles will be offered throughout the weekend.

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The night of July 28, the annual fish boil serving will be from 4 to 9 p.m.

The night of July 29, the band Eight Second Ride will be playing from 7 to 11 p.m.

Raffle winners and fishing awards will be presented at approximately 4 p.m. July 30, along with their first scholarship winners.

For up-to-date information, like Cleveland Fish and Game on Facebook. The group continues to work diligently to support much-needed Hika Park boat launch improvements ensuring safe access to Lake Michigan for sportsmen.

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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