Explore Membership Tiers and Regulations

Associate Member
As a new member, your status is Associate. After payment of your dues, you will receive a membership card. If you desire to fish and use the lake, please stop by the office and pick up a gate key. Remember you must have a valid Ill. Fishing license.

As an Associate Member, you may utilize the dining room and the Lakeside Lounge. You may participate in any of the regular activities and special events. You may fish at Godfrey lake as long as you follow state regulations and club guidelines. At Pleasant Hill, you may utilize the clubhouse and pavilion only. No ATVs.

Associate Members have no hunting privileges. You may attend the monthly membership meetings, and you can express your opinions. However, you cannot vote. You are encouraged to serve on a committee and volunteer to work on one of the activities or work projects.

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Regular Member
To upgrade from an Associate member to Regular member status, you must complete the required volunteer hours. Those hours are. 20 hours in 1 year, or 40 hours in 6 months, or 60 hours in 3 months. All volunteer hours should be qualified by the chairmen of the event you work for, IE: Trap, Bingo. Grounds, ECT: As a Regular member, you have all of the same privileges as an Associate member PLUS: voting privileges at monthly membership meetings, the responsibility of voting in the election of officers, and all types of hunting at Pleasant Hill EXCEPT waterfowl are permitted.

PLEASE NOTE….DUE TO THE LIMITED NUMBER OF DEER STANDS AND THE CURRENT NUMBER OF DEER HUNTERS, YOU MUST PUT YOUR NAME ON THE DEER LIST AND BE ACCEPTED BY THE SNYE COMMITTEE TO BE ELIGIBLE TO HUNT DEER AT PLEASANT HILL.

Waterfowl Hunter

To upgrade from a Regular member to Waterfowl Hunter status, you must contact the current SNYE Chairman through the club office. As a Waterfowl member, you have all of the same privileges as a Regular member AND all types of hunting at Pleasant Hill, including waterfowl.

PLEASE NOTE….DUE TO THE LIMITED NUMBER OF DEER STANDS AND THE CURRENT NUMBER OF DEER HUNTERS, YOU MUST PUT YOUR NAME ON THE DEER LIST AND BE ACCEPTED BY THE SNYE COMMITTEE TO BE ELIGIBLE TO HUNT DEER AT PLEASANT HILL.

At the Alton-Wood River Sportsmen’s Club (AWRSC), we believe that volunteers make a difference. Our success is possible through the efforts of our members. Without volunteers, most club activities would be costly, and many would cease to exist.

We all have busy lives and schedules, and there may not be enough time to volunteer. But if each of us volunteered once a month or once every other month, it really wouldn’t be that hard to find some time to volunteer.

Why do people volunteer? Some people will volunteer because they want to make sure that we succeed or because they believe it is the right thing to do. Others volunteer just because they want to help out. Get involved and make new friends, or reconnect with old friends.

What can you do? Maybe you are interested in helping out in ways that do not require a definite schedule commitment.

We need you! Volunteers make the club work, and we need more of you to volunteer. When you volunteer, you are helping to ensure that the club will be able to continue to offer the activities that you enjoy. Volunteering helps to keep the costs down, which in turn helps the club keep membership and activity costs down.

Godfrey Lake

  1. Only Club members and their guests are permitted on the club grounds. Guests must be accompanied by a Club Member or spouse of a Club Member.
  2. Fishing in the club lake is reserved for members and their immediate family under twenty-one years of age. An out-of-town house guest will be permitted to fish, and only when accompanied by a Club member or spouse of a Club member.
  3. Children under the age of sixteen years must be accompanied by a member or spouse of a Club member. All Junior members must be accompanied after dark.
  4. Junior members under the age of sixteen can bring guests to the lake.
  5. No alcohol may be consumed or possessed by minors.
  6. Fires must be in designated fireplaces or portable grills. Clean up your litter.
  7. Organized games or groups of 10 or more should check in with the Manager.
  8. All overnight campers shall register with the Club manager.
  9. Removal or damage to trees or shrubbery is not permitted. Do not litter.
  10. All persons fishing the lake must comply with all State fishing regulations. Rod and reel or pole and line fishing only will be permitted.
  11. Members may put boats on the lake. Electric trolling motors only, no gasoline motors.
  12. Any boat being used on the lake must have Coast Guard-approved life jackets or cushions for each occupant. No person under the age of sixteen will be allowed in a boat unless accompanied by an adult Member.
  13. No wading, swimming, or ice-skating permitted.
  14. No hunting allowed on Godfrey Club grounds. Archery deer hunting is allowed from October 1st through January 15th. Rules do apply, and are being updated.
  15. Members and Junior Members sixteen years and over are permitted to work or train their dogs in the small or large lake.
  16. Any person violating the foregoing rules or engaging in any illegal conduct on the Club Lakes or grounds shall be subject to review by the Board of Directors and subject to dismissal. Members are responsible for their guests.

To find out more about volunteer opportunities or to volunteer, please click the sign-up sheet link HERE and download the form. Please return the completed form to the Club or email it to [email protected].

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