Weekly Meeting Minutes March 24, 2022

SCTC Meeting Notes 03/24/2022

• Welcome
  • Attendees 36
  • President Terry Tysseland welcomed all attendees to the So Cal Tuna Club’s 97th year..
• Announcements:
• Mike Mundy announced that he got a call from Myra Dulin who said she was working on Ron Dulin’s estate and came across a note where Ron had asked her to buy everyone lunch after he had passed.  Ron was a long-time member and president in 1997.  She gave Mike a check to buy everyone lunch so today we all enjoyed a lovely lunch on Ron Dulin.

• Today we honored Mike Brown’s passing with a ‘moment of silence’ and a “ringing of the bell”.  He passed away 3/11/22 and was a member since 2015. Today he was honored with touching eulogy by his brother Hank Brown, our president pro-tem.  Mike was a part of big family from Hawaii, where all were involved in water sports and fishing.  Hank related many funny stories, one where when Mike was suffering from had Parkinson’s and still loved to go out on the water.  Hank would bait his hook and when Mike would pull in a fish Hank would take it off the hook and rebait it.  One time the fish were biting so good that Hank was full time baiting Mike’s hook and didn’t get a line in the water while tending to Mike’s gear.  Mike looked at Hank with that look of his and said ?why aren’t you catching any fish?, I am catching all the fish. I will remember Mike on the many Alaska trips which he loved  enjoying the Last Frontier.

• Ladies Cocktail Party and Dinner Dance will be held this Saturday evening with a great showing of 36 couples attending.  We are looking for 4 more couples to get to our goal of 80 members and guests.  So at this writing there is still some room.  It will be held at Lions Automobilia Museum in Rancho Domingues featuring over 150 cars from the 50’s and great artwork reenacting a village from that era and a large painted wall depicting the Lion’s Street Drag Strip. We will enjoy an open bar, shrimp cocktail, fillet of beef, great wine and a wonderful desert ………and best of all the fellowship for nearly 80 members and guests.  It’s time to put Covid behind us and get back to our normal lives.               

• Members we haven’t seen in awhile –  Welcome back!! Brian WhiteMike Contino

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• Guests – Terry Krause introduced Bob Semerau, Staff Writer, from Western Outdoors Publications and Eddie Martinez.  They entertained us with some great stories and Eddie introduced us to a new casting method which he promised to come back and demonstrate.  Welcome Bob and Eddie!!!

• Good Cheer Report – Co DeCoudres –  Terry reports that he got a text this morning from Tom Dixon that his  younger son who is a special needs person who was born with a neurological disorder and lives in a group home, stopped breathing and had to be rushed to ICU where he is now stabilized.  Today Tom got the good news that although his pancreas is severely infected there is no sign of it being cancerous and hopefully his gallbladder and pneumonia can be corrected by ANTIBIOTICS.  Please Keep Tom and his family in uour prayers.

• Past Events – Awards Dinner was hosted by Chris Halliday last Thursday evening with a dinner and awards presentation.  Thanks to KC and Greg Guest for barbecuing the steaks, Paul McEachern for providing the steaks, Pernilla for catering the event, Tom Dixon for set up and Don First for tear down.  The Top Angler award went to Chris Halliday and the Top Boat award was a tie and shared by Gus Chabre’s Rendez Tous and Doug William’s Jingo.  CONGRATULATIONS!!!

• SEND IN YOUR DUES or pay online – Please!

• Weight Slips- None.

• Fish Reports
  • Hank Brown reports that he went out to the Izor’s yesterday with a friend and they got one Bass and 15 Sculpin.  He says that there is a lot of bait out there and the water is 56 degrees.  A little warmer and the fish are going to be plentiful.
  • Joe Vicic drove to Mag Bay and back for some fishing which was not great and he reports that the ride was very long. 

• Future Events:
• Couples Trip – The 2022 Couples Trip has again been reschulded now to 11/12/2022 to 11/17/2022 and the new location is to Tamarindo Costa Rica.  For many reasons we could not get Florida to work this year.  Lucky for us that Cor Claus who was Chairman of the Couples Trip last year and had put this same trip together, although we had to cancel due to Covid. He has graciously agreed to be chairman for us again this year.  Lucky for us that it is a Marriott property and it is experiencing no difficulties this year and is completely booked. Lucky for us Cor still had all of his contacts and was able to secure the above dates.  And lucky for us Dennis Friedman has agreed to co-chair the event and be Boat Boss. Cor asks all that are interested to send him an email or phone call to show your interest.  Thank you, Cor and Dennis, for taking on this responsibility!!!  We haven’t had a Couples Trip in three years and we all agree that we must break out of COVID make one work this year!!!!       
• Ladies Cocktail Party – Doug Drummond – 3/26/22.  Please send in your checks to Doug made out to SCTC for ($125 per person) $250 per couple or you can pay online on our Website.
• April 13th – Annual Golf Tournament Meadowlark Golf Course – Register online or contact Jeff Clary. Same format as last year – pick your Foursome.  Already 40 signed up and room for more.  This looks to be the biggest SCTC Golf Tournament on record!!

• May 16-20 Freshwater Trip – The El Salto Trip still has openings if anyone wants to join us for the best largemouth bass fishing in the world!!!  The final payment for the trip is $1200 for a total cost of $2200 per angler for lodging, boats, guides, transportation and t-shirt.  The anglers will need to get their own air transportation and there will be about $300 in tips to the lodge and guides– Call Paul McEachern.  Paul put on a seminar on last Thursday March 10th after our regular meeting for any going on the trip.  This meeting was for anyone going for the first time or the tenth time to learn more about the trip.  This was an informative talk about baits and techniques for the lake and a must for first timers!!

• June 9-11 Spring Bass Tournament – Cor Claus C (Tuna included in the category) Whites landing. *There will be a Dock and Ramp this year – pay online or send your deposits to Cor Claus!
• June 18-23  Annual Kids Trip – Thom Ryan and Andrew Weiske – this is a reminder that the 2022 Baja Kids Trip is coming up in June.  Thom says this will be an epic trip and that they have roughly 62 people already signed up and with deposits paid.  There is room for a few more members, kids, grandkids or even guests now.  They will be making the flight reservations very soon so if you are on the fence please let Thom or Andrew know and submit a $500 per person deposit.  You can pay your deposit on the website or send either Andrew and Thom a check in the mail. Thom and Andrew say, “It’s the trip of a lifetime for the kids …..trust us!!!” 
• Options Trip (September21-22 has 1 opening) Call John Lavarias
• Queen Charlotte Trip  – 8/3 to 8/7 – has 2 rooms or 4 openings for two per room available – Call John
• Tackle Day – 4/9 and Annual Scale Certification will not take place on this day. See Co DeCoudres – we can use donations and volunteers!
• White Seabass Hatchery Tour 5/11/22, Bob Hetzler, will be limited to 20 people so please let Bob know of your interest. We will meet at the club parking lot in the morning about 9:00AM and carpool down to Carlsbad for the tour, have lunch on the way home and be home in early afternoon.
• Alaska Trip 7/22/22 to 7/26/22 Terry Tysseland – now has two openings due to two people having to drop out for health or business reasons.  Please let Terry know of your interest.
• Tom and Jerry Party scheduled for 18/8/22 has been moved out one week to 12/15/22.  Please make your calendars  

• Guest Speaker –  SCTC member Ken Calof’s wife is from the Ukraine and at our  3/3/2022 lunch, he spent time describing to us first hand the current events on the ground, what they see and hear.  His wife is a doctor here in the LB area and speaks with her relatives in the Ukraine daily.  Ken related the difficulties they are experiencing in a country that was Russian over 30 years ago and now a free democracy.  I have asked Ken to invite his wife to come to a lunch and speak to us in-person or via ZOOM to relate her thoughts on the currents events as she sees them from her perspective.  She has agreed to talk to us via ZOOM and we are trying to make the Thursday April 7^th lunch work so more to follow.
• Guest Speaker – Chris Lowe along with some of his students will present to us at the April 28 lunch so mark your calendars for what is always and entertaining and educational lunch.

• Club Website – https://socaltunaclub.org/#myaccount

• Adjourn – Cheers’         ><>

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