FISH RESTOCKING

Ippi's Environmental + Trout Re-Stocking Day July 31st (9am-11am) on Sluice Pond at the Boat Ramp at Briarcliff Lodge and Adult Day Care on the Corner of Lynnfield St + 112 Kernwood Dr. Lynn MA 01904!!! Ippi's B + T will be open from (6am-9am) that day so Ippi can run the event, to speak to the kids about the Environment + Fishing Etiquette and Nancy will perform wonders with her face painting on the kids. The Sluice Pond Association stated, for SAFTY PURPOSES, that there will be no fishing in the Boat Ramp Cove during the time that the kids will be running around stocking fish. Also anyone that would fish during the time of any restocking is not much of a "Sportsman" because the fish need a day to acclimate to there area so they have a chance, it's "cheating"!
Everyone is Welcome to come and watch but it is only the kids that can help Ippi Stock Trout in Sluice Pond!
Ippi has a "green can" at Ippi's for Donations for saving money for Re-Stocking Trout in our local cold water spring fed Sluice Pond. The Kids throw in their change into the can, some customers donate into the can every year, winners of our derby put some of there winnings into + Ippi takes 10% of monies collected at derbies and puts it into the can, then deposits it into it's own account at the bank. It takes about 3 years to collect about $1000 to be enough to buy about 150 trout over 12 inches. We need them to be at least 12 inches so the cormorants don't eat them down like candy.

June 23 + July 21- Weed treatment of Sluice Pond by Aquatic Control Technology is scheduled for the 2nd time this summer in Ell cove for Fanwort. The weed treatment chemicals permit no swimming or fishing in Sluice Pond for at least 24 hours. Also, using pond water for irrigation or drinking, watering animals is not recommended for several days .

June 25- Wyoma Square Annual Family Festival will take place on Saturday from 10-1PM. Fun for the whole family .

FREE RAFFLE TICKETS!!

Stop by East Boston Savings Bank and pick up your free raffle ticket for a chance to win one of the Wyoma Square Merchant Gift Certificates!!!  You need not to be present to win. Just print your name and telephone # on your raffle ticket.Ticket drawing at 12:30. Most of the Wyoma Square Merchants are offering a 10% discount During the hours of the Festival!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

10:00 a.m. to Noon

Curious Creatures at East Boston Savings Bank

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Face Painting at Ippi’s Bait and Tackle
Richie’s Italian Ice at East Boston Savings Bank
Hot dogs and Cotton Candy at Equitable Bank
Leather Making at Grace Leathers
$10 for Psychic Reading by Diane

FREE PARKING AT CENTURY 21

JULY 4TH- flares will be available at TruValue Hardware in Wyoma Square. Waterfront members should plan to light their flares along the pond edge at 9pm on July 4th. please dispose of the used flares in your trash, not in the pond. Contact Ippi or Paul Stonkus for more information or to order your flares in advance.

Information about the scheduled fishing tournaments for Sluice Pond can be obtained at Ippi's Bait and Tackle. Tournaments are scheduled every two weeks and prizes of up to $300 can be caught for those preregistered. Massachusetts stocks Sluice Pond with trout each Spring and Fall, salmon also when available. Ippi's Bait and Tackle has also stocked the pond with trout and runs tournaments for adults, juniors and children on Sluice Pond and Flax pond. Lynn Fish and Game stocks the pond annually with trout.

Weed Treatment Donations
This year the City of Lynn and community development will be providing weed treatment of the pond over the summer months . We conduct our Fight the Weeds Raffle annually and the funds are held for matching grants . This year we need all the help we can get to sell tickets! Charitable donations can be made here by organizations or individuals who want to keep Sluice Pond clean for public swimming, fishing and boating. SPA members can see Paul Stonkus at Century 21-Hughes in Wyoma Square or Laura Ippoliti at Ippi's Bait and Tackle at 5 Parkland Ave in Wyoma Square. Letters and proceeds can also be mailed to Ruth Sarrett, 39 Bacheller Street, Lynn, MA 01904.

Initial native broadleaf weed treatment was conducted on July 28, 2006 and again in early June, 2007 and June 2008 with assistance from the City of Lynn and Lynn Water and Sewer Commission as well as generous member contributions. Treatment for invasive weeds took place in Spring and a 2nd follow-up treatment in the coves in Summer, 2007 and 2008 thanks to our state legislator Mark Falzone . Art Fennell secured treatment funds for Flax Pond. Community Development of Lynn conducted a bid process for vendors to treat the weeds in 2007 and 2008 with these funds using Aquatic Control Technologies.The city and Lynn Water & Sewer treated the pond in 2009. Weed treatment did not occur in 2010 and vegetation growth increased rapidly, particularly in the coves.