Forum

· 17 members/prospective members present

· Work Groups – Contact with State: Tom Long, Matt Lysek, Dieter Scheel, Barry Surkin – Habitat: Matt Lysek, Fred, Dave Little Stocking: Tom Sabia, Tom Long, George Roman, Chad Theesfeld, Ed Myshak PR & Education: Greg Ridge, Dieter Scheel, George Roman, Barry Surkin, Bob

· Lehigh River Meeting with State – meeting in Jim Thorpe – large state presence including the Commissioner – the State wants fishing for all people, not just fly fishing for trout. The state will not stock section 8 (north of Kimmett’s lock) with Muskies. Section 9 will get the double portion. A new survey is coming out in the next few weeks that will include questions that may allow us to voice our opinion that Section 8 keep getting food. – Consensus of MI50 members present was that we should try to keep fish where they are now. The Fish Commission is printing up Muskie posters for us to distribute.

· Chapter Challunge – Who’s going – looks like a lot of people on the fence

· Cabela’s – do we want to do something there? Do we want to do something at Eagle Fire Co.

· Charity Event – Moyers Lake? – a lake that we can take our boats on?

· Leroy Young would like to speak at one of our meetings – Perhaps a Saturday morning at Cabela's? Matt will work on this

· Information dissemination – we need to educate! Muskies, Inc. has laminated sheets available that we should buy and pass out to guys we see fishing. Matt will order a selection of literature to be given out at the next meeting – Matt Lysek will work on this!

· Great job on the new website – Thank you Sebastian!

· Membership Czar – we need one for privileged sections of the website – we need to keep on top of who is getting our information – current membership of our club is 60-70 (which includes family) Barry Surkin has volunteered for this.

· Cool Waters Culture Workshop – January 7 – 9 – Walleye, Muskie, Pike rearing, etc.. Chapter 22 is sponsoring this and has for support. Matt will call Three Rivers and Penn-Ohio to see if they are willing to help us sponsor registration and pay for the rooms of all PA fisheries guys. Suggestion was made that we donate $200. towards the cost of the meeting at this time. We may decide to give more, but will have to take a closer look at finances.

· Voting Privileges – a discussion regarding the fact that MI22 only has officers vote on issues in the club. Should we allow members who don’t attend meetings/functions voting privileges. Discussions to continue. Please talk to your fellow members so that we can hash this out at a future meeting.

· Logo will be digitized, Sebastian will get 3 bids and have it done.

· Stocking – 950 Pures at Beltzville on 9-11 at 11 AM. 950 Pures at the Lehigh on 9-13 at 12 noon. Tom, Matt, Dieter, Bob, are all possibles. 3,000 Tigers for Beltzville on 9-18 at 1pm at Main Park Office ramp.

· Raffle raised $190.. Thank you to Sebastian who donated a beeeeauuuutiful custom painted Jake and to Joe T. donated an Amma Bama twitch. Member donations are awesome. If you have a nice bait to donate, bring it to the next meeting.

· Tom Long is putting a poll on the website to decide which Large Lake and which Small Lake he will be stocking. Please participate in the discussion leading up to the poll!

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