2006 HCFS Club Christmas Party
2006 Spring Break---Florida
Tom Ulmer and his daughter Hannah spent this past Spring Break in Florida doing some fishing for one the sunshine state's most prolific pelagics, the redfish! And, it looks like they both scored big! Hannah managed a 10-pounder while ol' Dad a slightly smaller one (well, that's the way we are tellin' the story). Great job, Hannah!
While attending a recent Kentucky Wildlife Federation Foundation quarterly meeting, Terry Sullivan, left, caught a 3 & 1/2 pound catfish at the Game Farm's lake. While Dan Sesit, right, decided to try his luck but fell short of bringing home a meal for the evening.
Alex Lea's Spring 2006 Turkey Alex Lea and his Spring 2006 Gobbler
Terry Sullivan fishes the "easy way" on a recent trip to Rough River Lake
On a recent turkey hunting trip to Florida, Alex Lea said he ran into this old male bobcat that weighed in at about 22 pounds. When asked why the bobcat had to meet his demise, our resident turkey hunting hero said matter-of-factly, "He tried to attack my turkey decoys!" That-a-boy, Alex!
Governor Ernie Fletcher came out to meet the sportsmen that were lobbying against Senate Bill 129. Members of the Harrods Creek Field & Stream Club participated significantly in the eventual defeat and recompromise of SB 129 during the mid-February visit to Kentucky's state capitol in Frankfort. If it had passed, the Bill would have favored cervid ranching and been potentially detrimental to sportsmens' deer and elk hunting opportunities in Kentucky. Club members present included Dan Sesit, Kent Cooper, Terry Sullivan and Alex Lea (see second row to the right in the orange vests).
2005 HCFS Christmas Party Pictures---Click Here
Dave Brandt fishing the Cumberland River. Hugh Adamson & Terry Sullivan
LKS Sportsmen of the Year 2003 & 2004
A "young" Terry Sullivan with a Canadian Bear he Another "young" Sullivan (Patrick, Terry's son) at a successful day
"bowed" in the Great White North! of fishing!
Tom "Moondog" Ulmer with a "different" type of "Tom!" Here Moondog shows that he truly is a sportsman of many
talents with a couple of stripers from the mighty Ohio!
Hmmm...maybe we should start calling him "Tom 2X" ???
Moondog with wonder dog jack getting ready for a dove hunt. Wonder dog jack, thinking, "Hmmm, I smell something tasty!"
Presentation of 2005 LKS Sportsman of the Year---by Terry Sullivan
“And now I know how Heather French Henry felt, to be so beautiful but sadden to see your year come to an end. I found out today that the standing Sportsman of the Year has three duties. Two of which I knew about, one of which I learned about this morning. Yes, Bill, the trophies are engraved. The other two duties are very serious and mean a great deal to me. The first is to cite the list of the former Sportsmen of the Year.
And, I can’t do that without making an observation…of how much it falls along the tradition of a Jewish bar mitzvah, when a young man, or in the case of a woman, a bat mitzvah, a young woman stands up before the entire congregation, as I am ostensibly doing right now, and recites the very essence of their beliefs to remind the congregation of those beliefs and to affirm those beliefs to themselves. And, it is also a symbol that that child has reached adulthood, and while I have not reached adulthood, there is a certain feeling of accomplishment and a certain feeling of finding your place when you have become Sportsmen of the Year. So, these great people that have come before me are as follows: [list read].
I would like for all the Sportsmen of the Year in attendance to please stand up and for you to applaud them.
The final duty that I am charged with is to announce the 2005 Sportsman of the Year. This may be difficult, so please bare with me.
All of you that have children or grandchildren, and nieces or nephews, have probably read a children’s book called “The Giving Tree” written by a man named Shel Silverstein. And the basic plot of the story is about a little boy and an apple tree. And as a little boy, the tree gives the little boy apples to eat and enjoy. And as the little boy grows older and stronger, it gives him its limbs to climb and play in. And as the boy gets a little bit older, the tree provides him shade for his girlfriend, whom he ultimately marries. And as a man, the tree gives up its limbs so the man can build a house.
Then in his declining years, the man wants to sail away, so the tree provides its trunk to make a boat so he can leave. So, now as a very old man, the boy comes back, and throughout the entire time the tree was glad to give up everything he had to that boy. But the tree was very sad because all he had left was a stump…and he was gone. So, the old man sat down and rested his tired bones on that stump, and again the tree was glad.
Tonight’s, 2005 Sportsman of the Year, would probably be the prototype that Shel Silverstein used to write “The Giving Tree.” He gave to his country as a marine, in his service in Vietnam, came home from that war, and gave to his family, a good life, a good family tradition, a good upbringing to his kids, great love to his wife, to the sporting community he gave to the education of the youth.
Last night, as we looked over the nominations, the list of accomplishments, not accomplishments in the sense of “I did this, I’m cool for doing it!” but in the sense of he set forth to help somebody to learn the sport, and so they did, that list is far too long to read right now, but it was everybody from boy scouts to adult day care, and at the end, when he has apparently nothing left to give, he gives us all the people that he has helped. And, he has given us an example by which we would do well to live. So, unless I haven’t made myself completely clear, the 2005 Sportsman of the Year is Mr. James Thompson, Jr., Alison, if you and your family would please come up and accept the award.”
LAKE CUMBERLAND CATCHES
Dan Sesit holding two stripers from a Lake Cumberland guided trip---March 2005
