Meeting Minutes for 2/26/2023 General Meeting

The meeting was started promptly at 2:11pm by President Larry Heagy. We had our meeting at Larry’s Barn, 120 N Parkview St. Maryville, IL 62062. The new venue allowed everyone to bring their own drinks.

21 members were in attendance plus 1 guest, former memberTom Miks.

Larry started off the meeting with a recap of the February meeting. Ed read the meeting minutes from February. Rudy motioned to accept the minutes as read and Paul Davis seconded the motion, vote was 21 for and 0 against..

Larry mentioned the banquet at the new venue, the Caseyville Village Hall. All of the members liked the venue and the food catered by Ravenellis. Everyone agreed that we should reserve the same loction for next year. Ed will arrange to reserve the hall for Jan 27, 2024.

There were 4 new members in attendance:

Dennis Watts – Paid Dues but they were refunded because he could not find a permanent partner.

Mack McIntyre – Paid Dues

Jim Carmody – Paid Dues

Brian Patrick – Paid Dues

Larry talked about the rules and they are posted on the website here:: RULES and Bylaws

The first tournament will be at Lake Egypt, to register for the event please look at the 2023 Tournament Schedule (link below). The schedule has all the tournament infor listed as well as theflyer for all the tournament details.

The second tournament will be Lake of the Ozarks, keep in mind that this is the same weekend as the Big Bass Bash and if you want to do both you must follow the Steel City Rules and weigh in procedures. All fish must be released at time of weigh in. All fish weighed in for Steel City must be conducted by Steel City and paper receipts from the Big Bass Bash will not be accepted.

Table Rock will be at Lazy Lees and Brian Snowden and Pete Wenners will be talking at our pre-tournament meeting on Friday

The meeting was adjourned at 2:57pm.

Darren Gestes was the 50/50 winner.

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