January 2024 Newsletter Happiest of Holidays and Best Wishes for a Great New Year!! build our membership, to the point where we were able to have over 100 people at our Holiday Party! We continue to build, but we always need help from our members. I challenge all of you to bring your fishing buddies to our club meetings as guests and get them to sign up. If you already like fishing with them, you might as well hang out with them some more at our fishing themed events! For 2023, we had a lot of great speakers to learn from, each with inspiring information, tackle and techniques. From masters of their own crafts, to charter captains, store owners and landing managers, all sharing their wealth of information. There were also great tournaments and very successful charters. We had a lot of people land their PB’s (Personal Bests) of various fish, from large Yellowtail, Tuna and Billfish, to inshore Halibut, Bass and Lingcod. What a smorgasbord of a year! Wow, what a great time we had at the Holiday Party/Awards Banquet! Great appetizers, great food, an awesome Raffle and Silent Auction table, the Gift Exchange, lots of great awards presented, and our own special guest who took time off from Ice Fishing to be with us … Santa! I’m not sure who enjoyed Santa’s company the most, the kids or the adults!! The kids were each given a stocking with candy, toys and their own collapsable fishing rod & reel combo and gear! Looking back over 2023, I finally took on the job as President after being a member since 1997! We had a lot of rebuilding to do after COVID, from 2022 to 2023! The board and its members made great strides to help re Reminder, no meeting in January. Our next meeting will be February 1st at the VFW in Pacific Beach: 853 Turquoise St, 92109. Our guest speaker is Bob Woodard Jr., somebody I’ve known for 40 years! I can personally vouch for Bob’s expertise in the sport of fishing, and you will certainly want to take notes while he speaks. I would like to thank John and Kelly Chuckta for their time on the board. John ran the Tournament Master position for 5 years(!!) and Kelly was an excellent Treasurer! Those taking over their positions will be in good hands with personal training from them.