July 2022 Newsletter Our meetings resumed with a bang on June 2nd, yay! That night’s speaker, Kevin Nakada, may be best known as a kayak pro, but he had hugely helpful tactics for anyone who fishes. If you missed it, you really missed some good stuff. Better get your favorite club back on your schedule! The July meeting will be on the Thursday the 7th. Happy Hour upstairs at 6:00, and the meeting downstairs is from 7:00 to 9:00, at Silver Gate Yacht Club on Shelter Island. Parking in Silver Gate’s lot is for their members; we park across the street. Ellie will have a few parking passes at the raffle table for those with physical limitations. We’re welcome to order dinner upstairs in the bar, or purchase drinks. The meeting is in the big room downstairs, you can’t miss it. We’ll have a couple of tables set up near the back for any who’d like to have their dinner there. The meals are reasonable, and good! Our July speaker will be Art Taylor, owner/operator of the Searcher. (That’s such a great boat, and recently made all new.) We’re expecting to get the straight scoop on Bluefin from him, everything you would ever need to know: tactics, rigging jigs, using bait, what’s been working… Plus, I hear he’s bringing something for the raffle table - that’s always exciting! Please stop and see Deb Renick at the Membership table. Everyone needs to: — Sign in, — Fill out the membership form and sign the waiver, each and every year. If you didn’t do it in June, then you still need to take care of this. Bill Renick is chomping at the bit to get out a new directory. Help a guy out, won’t ya? — You can join or renew your membership here, too. 2022 is discounted to $35. Those who paid for 2020 are covered, but still need to fill out and sign the 2022 forms. — We didn’t see too many name tags at the June meeting. If you absolutely can’t find yours, Deb can order you a new name tag. Do it this month and it will be there waiting for you the next month. John Chuckta says there are TWO SPOTS OPEN on the July 16th limited load charter trip. Get right in there! You can call him at (858) 860-6414 to nab a spot. Remember that the deadline to pay the remainder is July 2nd. You could lose your spot if he has another taker waiting in the wings, so don’t put it off. John can take your credit card payment over the phone. Gary Mouritzen is the Godfather of the Raffle Table this month. He has a stash of goodies, generously donated by Luc of Angler’s Choice. Ellie Duchene says she has another rod and reel, no one ever says no to that, right? And for those who like to keep things sweet on the home front, there’s a purse, too. There’s definitely something on that table for everyone! Tony Belandres doesn’t spread out everything he’s got on the Clothing table, but he has quite the stash of sizes and colors in those tubs behind the table, and he’s happy to pull out just the size and color that you want. He says, “Come ‘n’ get it!” Don’t forget that we’ll be voting in some new board members. We leave a majority for continuity, but rotate out a few each time. Arnie Seko is already doing great things for us, and Laura Itogawa has a long history of making things happen for the club. Anyone else? We have room for another board member.