Kissimmee River Valley Sportsman Association

09/08/2026

08/31/2026

On Friday, August 28th a small group transported tables and grills to the new pavilion for the work day on Saturday, August 29th. We had an amazing turn out of volunteers. We met at 8:30am at the pavilion and placed the picnic tables, installed grills and did a general cleanup of the area from trash to cutting grass.
Thank you to Paul Jackson, Ryan Lehning of RSL and JJ Patterson for the large custom made stainless steel grill that was also installed there.
Thank you to everyone that gave up their Saturday morning to come out and help us get ready for the upcoming dedication ceremony. Areas like this are kept clean and maintained with the help of volunteers like you.

08/30/2026

September 2026 Newsletter
📆 Next club meeting: Tuesday, September 1, 2026
📍 Fred’s Market 2120 Harden Blvd., Lakeland
Dinner: 6pm
Meeting: 7pm

08/25/2026

Workday this Saturday!

⚠️🚨 Workday Cancelled & Rescheduled🚨⚠️
Rescheduled for next Saturday, August 29th.

08/18/2026

⚠️🚨 Workday Cancelled & Rescheduled🚨⚠️
Rescheduled for next Saturday, August 29th.

08/03/2026

📢Club meeting tomorrow 📢
📆 Tuesday, August 4, 2026
📍 Fred’s Market 2120 Harden Blvd., Lakeland
Dinner: 6pm
Meeting: 7pm

07/27/2026

August 2026 Newsletter

Next club meeting: Tuesday, August 4, 2026
📍Fred’s Market 2120 Harden Blvd., Lakeland
Dinner: 6pm
Meeting: 7pm

07/27/2026

A New Gathering Place at Hole in the Wall!

KRVSA is proud to announce the completion of our new pavilion at Hole in the Wall on Lake Cypress!

This new pavilion provides a great place for members, families, and guests to get out of the sun, enjoy meals together, host club events, and make memories for years to come.

This is another great step forward for our club, and we’re excited to see everyone enjoying this new addition to one of our favorite spots on Lake Cypress.

Be sure to stop by and check it out on your next trip to Hole in the Wall. We look forward to many great gatherings and unforgettable days on the water!

07/23/2026

Please share, circulate, and get involved. May 2025 members of Kissimmee River Valley Sportsman Association (Dana & Brad Weihrauch), Florida Airboat Association (Brad Weihrauch, Tom Schmidt, Larry Daniels, Bishop Wright Jr) , Florida Sportsman Conservation Association (Bishop Wright Jr), Marshall Jones from Mack's Fish Camp met with SFWMD Staff; Rory Feeney, Exec Dir Drew Bartlett, Rich Virgil, Justin Nolte and FWC South Region/ Regional Director Dr. Tom Reinert to look at the excessive wear and blocking/crowding happening to public boat launching facilities by tour boat operators. While we are all sportsman, there is no way agencies can keep up with the amount of repair it takes for commercial airboat tour operations utilizing public ramps. 1. These boat launch facilities were not constructed for this amount of use. 2. It is not fair to tax payers for commercial businesses to operate on tax payer funded facilities and increase the financial burden of their operation to the public. 3. They have fuel trailers and other equipment parked/taking up precious space that negates family recreation, let alone the environmental liability. 4. WORST, is most boats carry anywhere from 6-20 passengers. This particular ramp has 8 businesses operating from this little shell rock parking lot. Figure an hour tour, 15 minutes to load/unload, you get roughly 6-7 tours day x 8 boats x all those people means there are literally CAR/BUS LOADS of people coming to these ramps. Estimated at this one ramp was about 500 passengers on a busy day. Folks---tax paying, hard working families have to turn around and go somewhere else or go home as there is no parking and conditions are not safe for launch/retrieval/loading and unloading a family. So, we need attendance. Yes this is in south Florida right now. But, this is headed our way and in many cases taking place now. St Johns Water Management District adopted assigning one operator per ramp years ago due to this same situation. SFWMD has gone the extra mile to partner with The University of Florida and the data is back. If you can not make the meeting please consider writing an email to [email protected]. Brad has volunteered to get these concerns and support to stop this ridiculous violation to the proper staff members at SFWMD. We need attendance in the meetings July 29 or July 30. OR, we need your emails on this issue by July 28th. Please take a stand. These clubs and representatives traveled (Brad & Dana 7.5hr round trip) , discussed, advocated, and have worked for American Families to be able to utilize YOUR public facilities. This has taken 14 months to see to the finish line, let's get this done. Please help now in the same spirit as all these folks above came together to work for you.

07/10/2026

Here is hoping everyone's summer is going well. Members have been invited to attend the retirement of Sgt. Michael Hill. "Mike" has been a long time supporter and friend to this club. After faithfully serving the citizens of Polk County for 25yrs Mike has decided it is time to retire from the PCSO. Mike and and all the team members in Agricultural Crimes and The Marine Unit have interacted with, and been friends to members for many years. They are always a phone call away when someone needs help in the woods or on the water. The RSVP information is on the attached flyer. Please consider joining fellow club members on wishing Mike an enjoyed retirement.