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Our Organization:
The
(Trailsmen Rod and Gun Club) began in 1966 and was incorporated in 1977, The
Junior Trailsmen Rod and Gun Club started in, 1974. We
teach conservation of Wild life, Forest, Water, fish and ethical hunting.
At this time we have 80 members.
Our Community
Also Includes:
Children, the elderly and
people with disabilities.
Our
programs are as follows:
- Fundraising:
This year we will hold our annual banquet on
April 2 2005
and our bowling
fund raising event on Jan 31. If you wish to attend either of these
events please contact Rolland Frappier at 897-2478 or Sylvie
Trepannier at 969-0695
- Trailsmen
Rod& Gun Club Environmental Award: Each
year we award a $500.00 bursary to a second year student
enrolled in an outdoor/ environmental program. For the past five years
we have given a bursary to Cambrian College and this year we added
College Boreal.
- Canada
Pitch-in program:
Each spring we are involved with the clean up of our environment in
the Valley East area of the Greater City of Sudbury.
The Club has partnered with the TD Friends of the Environment,
Brita Canada Corporation and the Greater City of Sudbury to conduct a
clean up of the landings at Pigeon, Green and Whitson Lakes as well as
the banks of the Rapid River and also Nelson and Pigeon Lake road
sides.
4. Hatchery 2004: We
started our hatchery in 2000 to date we have hatched approximately 240,000
walleye fry. Again this year we hope to use an electro fishing boat
From DFO for the collection of our walleye culture. Last year we collected
fish from the
Vermillion
River
at
Centennial
Park
in Walden. We where able to
collect an estimated 950,000 eggs from 9 females and used the milk from 28
male walleye to fertilize the eggs. We where able to hatch out an
estimated 650,000 fry for a 68% hatch rate.
These fry where distributed as follows.
1.
Centennial
Park
28,000
2.
Tyron lake 44 125,000
3.
Lake
land Lodge
33,000
4.
South Creek Whitson 39,000
5.
Trailsmen walleye ponds 70,000
6.
Ministic
Lake
30,000
7.
Withson
Lake
325,00
A total of 30 people
participated in the collection of walleye culture and work in the hatchery
plus 1 student on placement from
Centennial
Height
School
.
Total
Hrs: 1,412
- Archery
Program: A three-D archery range, constructed in the year
2000, has been well received by the many archers in the Sudbury and
surrounding areas. Men,
women, and children of all ages including a limited numbers of
disabled people are currently using the facilities.
The range consists of 10 Three-D targets set up on a
one-kilometer course. This facility also includes a target area
consisting of six round target butts. We are always looking for
volunteers to help out with this program.
- Junior
Club:
In 1970's the junior Trailsmen Rod and Gun Club was created in an
effort to teach young children the joys of hunting, fishing and the
conservation of nature. Through
the years it has been one of the most successful junior clubs in all
of Ontario. The Junior Club has won many shooting competitions, and
has participated in planting thousands of seedlings through out the
Sudbury region.
- Air
Rifle Range:
The air rifle range was created in 2001 for girls and boys
aged 8 to 12 years old. This
program was created in order to teach gun safety and integrate young
children into the pleasures of hunting.
In the year 2005, we hope to have young people with
disabilities integrated in to the air rifle program.
- Take
a kid-fishing program: This
program has been in place since 1985. This program consists of
taking 10 children, from single parent families, out fishing for the
day... The event includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Each
participating child also receives a fishing rod and tackle box filled
with tackle that they get to keep.
- Annual
FAMILY DAY: In
August we have our annual family day, this is for the members and
their families to come out and enjoy a day without working. We play
games and have competitions. It
consists of archery tournament, fishing in our trout pond, air rifle
tournament and
Texas
horse shoes. All
the events, prizes and food are provided at no cost to all club
members and their families, as an appreciation for all their hard work
during the year.
- Contributions:
We also contribute to the elk restoration program and the
turkey transplant program in Noelville.
Our club has been active in the tree planting programs in the
Sudbury Region. To date we
have planted 75,000 trees and that number is still climbing.
We have also built numerous wildlife-nesting structures on
various ponds in the Sudbury district.
- Walleye
Spawning Bed Enhancement Program: We
completed a new walleye spawning bed on
Whitson
Lake
. This project will
required 7-8 tandem loads of river rock placed strategically in a
40-foot radius in front of the big culvert off of LakeShore Drive in
Val Caron.
| REARING PONDS |
We have been raising walleye in our walleye rearing
ponds for the past 15 years and have stocked hundred of thousands walleye
fingerlings in 15 deferent water bodies in the
Sudbury
district. Last year there were
70,000 fry distributed in our ponds #2, 3, 4. On July 6 to 11 we began
pumping the ponds and on July11, 2003 we began to collect the walleye
fingerlings from ponds #2, & 3 from our new pumping station. On July
13 we collected the fingerlings from pond #4. A total of 45,000 fingerling
where collected for a 64% success rate. The
fingerlings were distributed as follows
1.
Ironside
Lake
9,000
2.
Long
Lake
6,000
3.
Green
Lake
5,000
4.
Norman Beach
5,000
5.
Whitson
Lake
20,000
A total of 32 people
participated in the collection of walleye fingerlings they were from the
T.R & G. C., Ironside Campers Association and Sudbury Game & Fish
Conservation Club. The Total Hrs for feeding of the ponds and removal and
stocking of the walleye fingerlings is: Total 975Hrs
We hope
to do as well in 2005 as we did in 2004 and add more new lakes to our
walleye-stocking program
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| TROUT POND |
In 2001 we began our People with
Disabilities Trout Pond and it is by far our most rewarding program to
date. We built a deck onto this pond so that people with disabilities
could access the trout pond. In 2004 the group ICAN
(Independence Centre and Network) participated in this program 10 times.
We supply the fishing gear and provide them with a barbeque lunch; this
program is of no cost to the participants. The MNR staff Brenda Harrow and
Keith Scott provided the splake for this program (“People with
Disabilities Trout Pond)”. Approximately
170 trout where caught by the ICAN group. Also many of the member’s
children and grand children and senior’s enjoyed trout fishing. The
total volunteer hours by club members was
Total
155 Hrs
The total hrs worked to date on walleye projects and trout pond
projects are.
Total Hrs 3013.
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Reaching
out to members of our community:
Our
organization reaches out to members of the community that are isolated and
traditionally not involved in our activities by encouraging these members
to join us as we collect eggs on the shores of Whitson Lake, which is easily accessible by people with disabilities.
Schools and the general public are also invited to visit the
hatchery and witness, for the first time the hatching, rearing, and
restocking of area lakes. The
viable fishery that our organization has created within the Greater City
of Sudbury has provided easy access to fishing for the elderly and the
disabled.
We
are also going to Create a new committee made up of people with
disabilities to help us understand their needs within our organization. In
doing so our property will be more accessible for people with physical
disabilities so they are able to participate in all of our programs.
We
work with the following groups:
1.
The
Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters
2.
Sudbury
Fish and Game
Protective Association
3.
Azilda
Rearing ponds Club
4.
Chelmsford
Fish and Game Association
5.
ICAN (Independence Centre and Network)
6.
Ironside
Lake Campers Association
7.
Whitson
Campers Association
8.
Ministry
of Natural Resources
9.
Elk
Restoration Foundation
10.
Turkey
Restoration Group
11.
TD
Friends of the Environment
12.
Brita
Canada Corporation
13.
Greater
City of Sudbury
14.
Laurention
University
15.
Boy
Scouts
16.
NOFCC
Mailing Address
1615
Olivia Street
Val
Caron, Ontario
P3N
1L5
Rolland Frappier
Phone 897-2478
Email: (walleye@sympatico.ca)
President of the Trailsmen Rod & Gun Club
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| A 14 pound walleye that Rolly caught during one of his
fishing trips. |
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