January 2023 Newsletter

I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday Season! I know I had a great time with family and friends. Even better, my oldest son was home for the holidays. Such a joy to have him around! The board is working diligently on finding a “Home” venue to hold our meetings. It gets tricky trying to find a place that is quiet enough, big enough, easy to get to, that’s indoors (for these cold days) and, most importantly, doesn’t cost too much! Remember, we are a Non-Profit Organization, a 501(c)(7), but a lot of venues don’t care about that, which I understand. If you happen to know anybody who has a potential venue, I am open to suggestions! Many of you know that we had A LOT of positions on the board to fill. I would like to welcome the newly appointed members Einar Aguila, Frances Aguila, Kelly Chuckta, Rolly Lira, Jim Shaffer, Arnie Seko and Orlando Quintanar to the board. I would also like welcome back John Chuckta and Laura Itogawa to the board. I am very excited to be working with this great group of people and we look forward to a great year for the club! Myself, I’ve been a board member before and, over the last Many Years, the Newsletter Editor. To take on the role of President, I needed somebody to take over the newsletter. Without even having to ask, our former President, Mary Belandres, stepped up and said she would handle that for me! Mary, I cannot thank you enough! I know you’re going to do great things with the monthly newsletters! We will have a “Schedule of Events” wrapped up after our next board meeting, so keep an eye out for the email announcement. This way you can put everything down on your calendar and, more importantly, show it to your significant other so that they know when you won’t be home!! A little flashback to our Holiday Party for our December meeting … A seriously great time was had by all. If you missed it, you missed out! Major kudos and many thanks to Sharon, Ellie, Kelly and Mary! You ladies are phenomenal and the night would not have been the same without you!! From the nice decorations, tablecloths, appetizers, wine food, etc. Your efforts certainly did not go unnoticed! The visit from Santa was enjoyed by all, and I’m glad he made enough time to take a group picture around the tree! The gift exchange afterwards went very smoothly, and I was happy with the gift I received! Please join us at our next meeting. Arnie has found a very interesting guest speaker! One for sure that I will be listening to intently. Lessons certainly to be learned, which will probably send me to the store to buy supplies for impressing the family!! Be sure to bring your friends - the more the merrier! We all have people we like to fish with, so bring them along so you can hang out even more amongst other like-minded fisherman. My goal is to bring the membership of this club to a great level, but we need your help to accomplish this. Once they attend a meeting, they will see the benefits and join too. Until then … Get Bent! (For those who don’t know or remember, that’s the name of my boat.)