For Immediate Release
Tickets Available for the First Ever Lake Shelbyville Fish Habitat Alliance Banquet
Lake Shelbyville – The First Annual Lake Shelbyville Fish Habitat Alliance Banquet is being held at the Sullivan VFW on February 23, 2019 with 100% of the proceeds going to improve the fisheries and fish habitat in Lake Shelbyville! The doors open at 5 P.M. with dinner starting at 7. The banquet is being hosted by the Lake Shelbyville Fish Habitat Alliance, a group that is focused on improving the fisheries at Lake Shelbyville. Tickets will be available online http://tinyurl.com/lsfha2019, Chip’s Marine in Sullivan, IL and the Lake Shelbyville Visitors Center in Shelbyville, IL. Tickets are $40 for a single ticket, $60 for couples, $10 for children, with sponsor tickets ranging for $150 for a single sponsor ticket to $1,000 for a table sponsor. The tickets include your choice of chicken or steak, sides, and adult beverages while they last.
There will be raffles, games, live auctions, silent auctions, a kids table, and a women’s table. The prizes include fishing rods, reels, tackle, a trolling motor, fishing kayaks, guided fishing trips and much, much more!
100% of the proceeds of the banquet will go directly to fish habitat at Lake Shelbyville! The Lake Shelbyville Fish Habitat Alliance have taken on many projects to improve Lake Shelbyville’s aquatic habitat for all species of fish. These projects include building and placing over 400 Georgia and Shelbyville Cubes, almost 60 artificial stumps and assisting with aquatic plant establishment in Lake Shelbyville. Five cube builds are scheduled this year with the goal of 250 more cubes and 125 stumps aimed at benefitting all species of fish. The group also assists Lake Shelbyville Corps of Engineers staff with the harvesting walleye and muskie from nursery ponds for stocking into Lake Shelbyville and the transplanting of aquatic plants. The cubes and stumps have been extremely popular with fisherman. After each habitat build and placement, aerial maps along with the GPS coordinates of the structure are made available to the public for fishing.
For more information contact Chip Christenson of Chip’s Marine at (217) 728-2610 or visit the Lake Shelbyville Fish Habitat Alliance Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/fishlakeshelbyville/.
