Projects

Joint stocking project Fall 2020

  • Provided $7,000 of Acoustic Transmitters and batteries in 2015 to expand the tracking of Muskies in the St. Croix River as part of the larger St Croix Tracking Study.

  • Donated $6,000 of Acoustic Transmitters in 2014 to add Muskie tracking as part of the larger St Croix Tracking Study.

  • Pit tags and Pit Tag readers for Metro Stocking study in 2014.

  • Stocked White Bear with $5,000 of yearling Muskies in partnership with the Hugh C. Becker Foundation in 2013

  • Stocked Forest Lakes with $3,000 of yearling Muskies in 2013

  • North Metro State High School Qualifying and State Tournaments

  • Stocked fish in Lake Owasso, Eagle Lake, Lake Independence with yearling Muskies in 2012

  • Purchased PIT Tags, Software and Readers for the DNR for long term stocking information

  • Purchased Release Nets, Tanks, Custom Rebar, Aeration and Netting Equipment

  • Memorial Bench installed at White Bear Lake in memory of Mary Vilnow, long time North Metro member who died of cancer

  • Purchased Camera, Depth Finder and GPS Units for DNR

  • Purchased Minnows to feed baby Muskies in the DNR rearing ponds

  • Donated to Operation Muskie – Effort to take War Vets out Muskie Fishing at Baystore Camp on Lake of the Woods

  • Purchased Microscopes for DNR to continue fish studies

  • Donated prizes to St. Francis Student Organization for their fundraising efforts

  • Lake Cleanups on Lake Independence prior to Ice Out

  • Purchased Automatic Pond Feeders for the DNR

  • Purchased portable Canopies to protect the Muskies and DNR Personnel during egg taking operations

  • Purchased Chemicals to assist DNR in rounding up fish in rearing ponds

  • Donated to George Wahl Memorial 

  • Donated to Minnesota Muskie & Pike Alliance 

The North Metro Chapter works to help improve the musky fishery and other worthwhile efforts in many ways.  We help provide funding for some of the DNR needs, promote Scientific Research, Muskie Stocking, Youth Activities, Veteran activities and more.  Here are some of the efforts that have been accomplished by the North Metro Chapter of Muskies Inc: