Meeting Minutes for 2/17/2019 General Meeting

Meeting Minutes for 2/17/2019 General Meeting

Meeting began at 2:13pm by president Larry Heagy

Ed Montgomery read the meeting minutes from the Jan 20th meeting minutes were approved as read.

The annual banquet was held on Jan 26th. The attendance was great for the banquet with approximately 150 people in attendance. Since a high number of people attended the raffles were a great success. And special thanks to everyone who helped out during the event.

Larry reviewed the first set of tournament events for the upcoming season. The flyers are posted on the website along with the schedule and permits. If you would like to see the schedule please click here.. All of the events list places nearby the venue that people normally stay at.

The first event of the year is on March 9th at Lake Egypt. Larry and Ed will not be in attendance so look for Mike Vallino or the other board members to get registered for the tournament and draw for your takeoff position. The out of bounds and other tournament information is listed on the tournament flyers that is included on the Schedule page. Please familiarize yourself with the flyers before the event so there is no confusion during the day. If there is any question or concern with the flyers please contact Ed Montgomery immediately. In general we will take off 30 minutes before sunrise unless there is an unsafe condition hindering our takeoff.

Rick Ficker showed up to the meeting at 2:23pm for which he promptly called the members all assholes.

From the discussions at the previous winter meetings Larry mentioned that we need to compile a database and survey of the fishing venues that the members would like to have for the 2020 tournament season. We will compile this information and present the findings at the scheduling board meeting in October 2019. This survey will be conducted through the website and only those members with a registered email address can participate (one survey per person). At the meeting time we are missing email addresses for: Eric Alberter, Les Avery, Logan Harnetiaux, Kent Higgins, Chris Hunter, Jacob Ohl, Jon Ozanich and Bob Quick. If you have access to any of these members please have them text or email Ed with their email address.

Some of the venues that the members suggested are: Tennessee/Cumberland River, Stockton, Trueman and Barkley. If you had a good experience at any lake then let us know during the survey so your information can be included. Ed will publish the Survey on April 1st and make the anonymous results available to the members by October 1st through an additional survey.

Arthue Schmittling was so excited during this conversation that he accidentially broke the beer light. After he fixed it the meeting resumed.

Another topic from the winter meeting was the discussion of a functioning Classic Tournament. Larry is going to appoint a committee to lead this discussion.

Rick Ficker discussed the Golf Tournament in honor of Steve Ficker to raise scholarship money. This tournament will be held on April 6th as is almost full to capacity. The date coincides with the Pomme De Terre Tournament so if you are not going to Pomme then this is a great cause to participate in.

A motion was made to purchase 2 hole sponsorship for the golf tournament ($100 each) and the motion passed. Ed will get the check over to Rick to include for the tournament.

The Steve Ficker memorial youth fishing event held in conjunction with the Granite City Police Department will me held on May 11th at the Fountains from 12:00pm to 4:00pm.. there will be 7-8 weigh in stations located around the lake for the anglers to get pictures and to weigh their catch. More on this event will be sent out at a later date as the details get finalized. The club is not fishing that day so please plan to attend and help our for this great cause,.

Johny Morris Motioned to close the meeting and was seconded by Jay Wells. Meeting adjourned at 3:10pm.