Magic Valley Bassmasters Meetings

Magic Valley Bassmasters January 2006 Meeting

Dale brought the meeting to order at 7:00; the account balance is $1,044.92.

The new officers that were voted in for 2006 are:
-Pres. Dale Jarrell
-Vice Pres. Vern Rehn
-Sec./Tre. Jeanne Hill
-Tournament Directors: Pat Callen, Ted Weinand, Shawn Crowley, Ron Scott
-P.R. Scyler Hill

The National Federation dues increased $5.00, making the dues for the club $40.00 instead of $35.00. The members that already paid $35.00, we will need to collect $5.00 more dollars please. And for the members that have not paid yet for this year, please do so we can keep your name active in our roster.

We had a great turnout for our banquet. The raffle items, the food and conversations were great.

We had a lot of comments on the suggestion sheet and here are they are:

change the meeting night to Wednesday: the club voted on and was passed to change the meeting to the first Wednesday of the Month.
change the location of the meeting: the club will be trying out the Trail Creek Brewery (the old muggers) meeting room for our next meeting (Feb.), if everyone likes it we will keep the location.
not to have a clique club: if you see other members talking, drinking, having a good time, join in and have fun. This is a club, not an individual event.
get thank you, sympathy, get well notes out: has always been done, I will start putting announcements in the news letter
get and keep web page updated, pictures in newspaper: try better
change voting membership: the club had 2 choice to vote on; keep 1 blk ball or 2/3 majority. The club voted on and passed the 2/3 majority.
get boats in water quicker: start collecting entry fees the night before or at the first of month meeting. If they are having computer problems, use paper & pencil.
talk about the safety, rules, water speed, what bait works good: the tournament directors will start having a pre launch meeting.
make the meeting have some training sessions: members can start bringing training videos and have speakers
if you win a tournament, help out others: if you win, hopefully you and your partner will come to the next meeting and discuss what you used, since we will not be on that water until next year.
do something through out the year to help pay for the banquet: start having fund raisers
change pay outs on added money: the club voted on staying with 1st and 2nd big fish. 1-11 boats pays 3 spots, 12 boats or more pay 4 spots. With 4 payouts max.
change sponsor plaques: each sponsor will receive 1 plaque and for each year they will only receive a year attachment.
not use points for C.A.S.T.: if no points, no participation, this was tabled and will discuss more at next meeting.
put information out about our club & tournaments: start posting events at Brads, News Paper and Sportsman's.
extra person at an event: if you bring an extra person, and their is not a extra boat, you are responsible for taking that person
other club members fish with out joining our club: they can fish 1 tournament with out joining, but if they win they will need join (pay dues) and be voted in at the next meeting.
change the angler of the year to only 1 angler: every one was happy with having co-anglers, but a tie breaker can be figured out.

That was all for the suggestion sheet.

We talked about the OPEN, Dale is checking with Burley for the use of the golf course ramp or put a cap on the people for riverside. We will discuss it more at the Feb. meeting.

Talk to different banks to see if we can get sponsorships, Dale will go and talk and let us know at our next meeting.

Fish and Game has Xmas trees that need planted at Milner, Cliff Lockhart said they need help to load and unload trees. F & G will use their boats. It will either end of Feb. or first part of March.

Dale is wanting to change the Aug. 6th tournament on Massacre Rocks to Aug. 13th. Dale will check with Sharon Clark to see if we can change the permit.

Filer fun days are June 23, 24, and 25 and we will try to put on a Casting Kids event on 2 of those days.

The Brownlee tournament will not have any off limits due to Mini Cassia's permit.

We also need to get everyone to turn in proof of insurance with a $100,000.00 in liability before our first tournament.

Congratulations go out to Lou & Vickie Probasco, they are new Grandparents.

We voted in a new member into the club, Tim Alley, welcome to the club.

Dale closed the meeting at 8:30.

Jeanne