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Welcome Back Knights: Reel Knights first meeting for Fall 2010

Posted by Chris on August 30th, 2010 | 0 comments

To all of UCF’s best fishermen and women,

Welcome back to UCF for another year of exams, work, classes, REEL Knights and hopefully time on the water! I hope you all are as excited as me to get this year set on a great start! As our club continues to grow in membership, (we are currently at 48 by the end of last school year) we look forward to bringing more reel knights influence into our campus and community! Alright now here is what everyone has been waiting for, our first meeting:

Reel Knights first meeting for Fall 2010
Date: Thursday, September 2nd
Place: Fairwinds Alumni Center downstairs boardroom
Time: 6pm
Topic: Welcome and Overview of fishing hotspots in the Central Florida Area

In addition to the meeting, officers will be tableing this wednesday on front of the union from around 9 to 2, to promote our club and pass out reminders about the meeting, make sure to stop by and say hi in between classes!

I would like to make a quick apology for my absence of involvement with club communication over summer, I was down fishing in the Keys living the dream, and fishing and working back home, on the water more than on land, but I’m ready to rock and roll this year, and devote 110% of my Chaterbait abilities to kickin ass and catchin slabs with Reel Knights. Anyways I want to give a big thanks to fellow officers Patrick Carey and Scott Stone for stepping up and getting some recruitment and PR done over summer!

Also please spread the word to friends and classmates about the meeting and our club, as we are still adding to our email contacts database. See yall Wed and Thurs!

Tight Lines,

Matt Norman

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Reel Knights Take 3rd Place at FLW College Fishing Event on Lake Okeechobee

Posted by Chris on March 1st, 2010 | 0 comments

On February 27th, 2010 two teams from the Reel Knights Fishing club at UCF headed to Clewiston, FL to compete in an FLW College Fishing Regional Qualifier on famed Lake Okeechobee. The competition was met with questionable weather and heavy fishing pressure but the team of Len Gordon and Miles Burghoff made the right adjustments. Len and Miles finished the one day tournament in third place with a total weight of 9lbs 14oz. There day was spent covering as much water as possible in the Monkey Box area throwing skinny dippers and flipping reeds. Their success netted $4000 for the 3rd place finish. Half of that money will go directly to the University of Central Florida and the other half will go to the Reel Knights Club. The Reel Knights second team of Scott Stone and Curtis Schneider finished in 26th place with 2lbs 7oz. They had a tough day and could not get the bites to make it into the coveted top five. The top five teams at each regional qualifier will earn a spot into the Southeastern Regional. The location of this Regional is to be determined but Len and Miles are up for the challenge. The Reel Knights have started off this season much like they did last season when the club’s only team at Lake Okeechobee finished in 5th place. That team of Matt Norman and Dustin Lauer then went on to finish 4th at the Regional Championship and are scheduled to fish in the National Championship in April.

This brings the Reel Knights FLW College top 5 finish count to 3 in only 4 events. The other event was a 10th place finish on Lake Guntersville last October.

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