SCTC Meeting Notes 03/03/2022
- Welcome
- Attendees 31
- President Terry Tysseland welcomed all attendees to the So Cal Tuna Club’s 97th year..
- Announcements
- El Salto Trip Seminar
which was scheduled for after lunch today has been postponed to next week 3-10-22. Hank reports that Paul caught a bug (not Covid)in Mexico last week and is not feeling well enough to do the seminar this week.
- Members we haven’t seen in awhile –Jim AndrewsRon HerbstKC Coultrup.
- Guests – none.
- Good Cheer Report – Co DeCoudres reports that –
- Don First is in the room and enjoying lunch and seems to be healing well. When I got to the clubhouse Don with his left arm in a cast had a tool bag in one hand, an electric drill in the other and was working on a door that wouldn’t close properly. Thanks Don for your dedication.
- Cor reports that Gary Whitener was in the hospital with both heart and lung trouble but was released and is now at home. Get well Gary!!!
- Ron Herbst is in the house having lunch today. Welcome back Ron!!!
- Mike Brown continues to improve in a Fullerton Rehab center and he is hopeful to be released to go home tomorrow. Remember that just a few weeks ago Mike was put in an induced coma where he recovered for 8 weeks and it seems a miracle that now just a few weeks later he is hoping to go home soon. Get well Mike!!!
- Ron Herbst is in the house having lunch today. He has been out with Covid/pneumonia and it is great to see him back. Welcome back Ron!!!
- Past Events – None.
- SEND IN YOUR DUES or pay online – Please!
- Weight Slips– None.
- Fish Reports
- Mike Mundy and Mike Engle went to Catalina looking for the 1st WSB of the year. The water was 66 degrees and they had no trouble making bait – perfect conditions but no WSB to be found. They had a beautiful boat ride in beautiful weather.
- Jeff Clary went lobster hooping at Catalina. They limited out for four in short order with good sized lobsters.
- Future Events:
- Couples Trip – Andrew Weiske – the trip has been postponed to the fall of the year due directly or indirectly to Covid causing it to be very difficult to tie down hotels and boats and captains. The new dates are yet to be determined but please think hypothetically 9/25 to 10/3 with exact dates to be confirmed in the short term future.
- 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 will be putting on a seminar on this Thursday March 10th after our regular meeting for any going on the trip. This meeting is for anyone going for the first time or the tenth time to learn more about the trip. This will be an informative talk about baits and techniques for the lake.
- June 9-11 Spring Bass Tournament (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 take place on this day. See Co DeCoudres – we can use donations and volunteers!
- Guest Speaker – SCTC member Ken Calof’s wife is from the Ukraine and 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. His father-in-law who is in his late 80s lives here and still has sympathy for the ‘old USSR’ and watches Russian TV and listens to Putin say everything as reported in the Ukraine is ‘fake news’. So it makes for an interesting family life for Ken and his wife and family. 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 so more to follow.
- Other Announcements
- Club Website – https://socaltunaclub.org/#myaccount
- Adjourn – Cheers’ ><>
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