MINUTES of PRESIDENTS MEETING Top of Page

April 3, 2005

Federation Presidents Meeting Called to order at 1:00 P.M.

• ROLL CALL: 43 0f 62 clubs present

President Beltz

• President Beltz introduced the NEW Bass Pro Shops Auburn Hills Store Manager, Riley Daniels. Mr. Daniels
  Has replaced Mr. T. Sokolowski. Tom has moved on.  Mr. Daniels addressed the President He spoke of BPS support of our Federation and of the many years of working together. Bass Pro will continue in it’s support of our organization. As your members shop the store be sure and thank and appreciate BPS and Mr. Daniels for the wonderful job they do for us. The promotional Manager for the shop is Christy Geiger.

• President Beltz explained that the CastingKids championship format will be changing due to the new Bass Masters Classic date being moved from spring to winter. Our dates will be changing accordingly.

• President Beltz announced to the President that the Mi. Fed. Board will be accepting resumes for the 2006 Fed. Tournament Directorship. Please send your resume/application letters to President Beltz. These need to be presented early so interviews can be scheduled.

• President Beltz is also looking for a person or persons to become the new Conservation, Legislative & Environmental Directors.  Our current director Mr. Ron Spitler has done an exceptional job for our Federation, but it’s time for Ron to take a well earned leave. Ron will help the new director ease into the position. Please contact President Beltz ASAP. The Federation is also looking for person to take on the Newsletter Editor position.  Please contact President Beltz and or Jay Berwick if you have the skills or contacts to help our organization.

Secretary Report: Paul Sacks

• Motion to accept minutes of President meeting of Feb. 6, 2005 made by Mike Kujaski /2nd by Roger Smith PASSED

Treasury Report: by Dennis Beltz

• (Handout on file) available upon request by President

• Lew Borer Memorial Scholarship fund balance $62,983.76

• Motion to accept report by John Beeman/2nd by Mike Kujawski Passed

COMMITTEE REPORTS

• Classic Report: Mark Smith

  • The 2005 and 2006 Classic Series dates were set.

    • June 4-5 2005 Charlevoix

    • July 16-17, 2005 Au Gres (old city ramp)

    • Aug. 13-14,2005 Houghton Lake (E.side)

    • Championship Sept. 30-Oct 1,2005 will be on White Lake in Whitehall, Mi. (Westside of state)

  • Chairman Smith announced that funds have been provided by the C of C.

  • Charlevoix $ 3,000.00 – Au Gres $ $3,000.00 – Houghton Lk. $2,000.00 and Whitehall has waved the ramp fee’s.

  • Next year’s dates:

    • June 3-4, 2006

    • July 15-16,2006

    • Aug. 12-13,2006

    • Championship Sept.29-30, 2006

  • Mark reviewed the payout from 2004. The Classic series paid out $24,000.00 plus $7,000.00 in product and gift cards.

  • The Classic Championship also paid out over $ 48,000.00 in cash and prizes.

  • The Classic series has signed on with many new sponsors.

    • Extreme Tackle

    • Snak Daddy

    • Al&Bobs

    • Mikes Rx

    • Southstreet Tackle

    • K-D Outdoors

    • Loomis Rods

    • D&R Sports

    • BPS-
      Mercury Motors

    • MinnKota

    • Yamaha

    • Anchor Bay

    • Jan’s Sport Shops

    • Realistic Taxidermy

    • Little Bills Trophy’s

  • The series will continue grow each year. Let your club members know the great opportunity the Classic series provides to our members.

State Championships Report: Paul Sacks / Paul Wagner

• The 2005 State Championship will be on Lake St. Clair

• Thursday Sept. 8 Banquet/meeting and Sept. 9-10 tournament, 2005. Banquet to be held at Gino’s Surf in Mt. Clemens.

• This year the board has voted to limit the waters to Lake St. Clair - off-limits from Ambassador bridge to Port Huron bridge.

• Three licenses will be needed. Michigan, Canadian and Walpole Island.

• Question using two scales to speed weigh-in was reviewed. By vote of the President the idea was rejected.

• Question of pre weighing the big Bass only was reviewed and rejected.

• Idea of using 1st days big BASS as the tie-breaker was reviewed. This was voted upon and PASSED.

• Roster forms should be sent in early June to the President

Conservation, Legislative & Environmental Directors Report: Ron Spitler

• Ron announced that this will be his last year. He said we need a new Director to replace him. The Director jobs includes going to the B.A.S.S. National Championship and or the BassMasters Classic.

• Ron informed the President that the new Conservation patches will be available.

• Ron reported about the DNR/COOL WATER REGULATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING OF MARCH 29,2005

• Along with a letter Ron wrote regarding the SALBRC report and comments of our Fed about bass fishing. (Handouts on file) These handout can be found on the Web site.

• Ron presented data from Rec. Bureau Tournament Permit( handout on file).

• Also a copy of the 2005 Angler Opinion Survey (On File)

• Ron has asked the DNR to revisit the data collect. They have said that they will review the study information.

• Ron also said that the drop shot question is being reviewed. The law division has said a lure at the bottom on the mainline is OK with the dropshot rig. ( note: this is an opinion and not the written law)

• Dan Kimmel handed out petitions for clubs to sign and send in.
   

WEBSITE: Paul Wagner

• The only Web site Address now working for out Federation is: www.michiganbass.net

• Many new forms are on our Web site. Paul informed the President that club membership changes
  can be updated or changed on the site. Please post President E-mail info. We need every President info. Including E-mail address.

• Contact Paul Wagner if you have any questions or suggestion. pwagner@michiganbass.net

Tournament Director Report: Doug Phillips NO REPORT

• Contact PresidentBeltz if you wish to apply for the 2006 Tournament Directorship.

Divisional: President Beltz

• The National B.A.S.S. Federation Championship will be held on Kissimmee Lake in St. Cloud, Fl. the last week of April.

• The format will be all anglers to fish for the first two days, and then the top 3 from each Div. will compete for 2 more days.

Raffle Ticket Director: Ray Schmitt

• Ray reported that we have approx 30,000 tickets signed out by our clubs.

• The 2005 Raffle drawing will take place at Bass Pro shops on June 11, 2005 at 3:00P.M. to 5:00 P.M.

• Thanks to all the clubs who have sold tickets.

Youth Activities: Dewey Graves

• The 2005 Jr. State Championship will be held on June 11th at Lake Oakland. The actual weigh-in will
  be at The Auburn Hills Bass Pro Shops.

• All youth on the 2005 Rosters from the age of 11 to 18( as of Aug 31,2005)
  qualify for this year Jr. State Championship.

• Please contact Ron Guilfoil Jr. and or Dewey Graves with # of kids your club is sending.

• Clubs who have submit for 2005 Youth projects (funding) need to resubmit there applications ASAP.

• With B.A.S.S. changing the BassMasters Classic Tournament date there will be another Mi. State CastingKids winners contest. This will be held in Oct. , 2005. The two winners from these Finals will be advancing on to the Nationals.

Membership:

• New clubs are still joining our Federation Chapter.

Scholarship: Paul Sacks

• Please remember that application must be post-marked by July 31, 2005. Forms available on line.

Media Coordinator: No Report

Sponsorship Report: James Witherspoon.

50/50 Raffle fundraiser:

Newsletter Report: Jay Berwick

• Jay reported that at the current time the Federation is looking for a new printer for the newsletter, and a new Editor. Please contact Jay or President Beltz if you can help us. Until then members should rely on the Federation Web site as our main commutation tool.

• The President were asked to find new sponsors for the Federation.

• For adds contact Jay

• Articles – news- stories-etc. need to be sent to Jay Berwick. Jay’s E- Mail is Jayberwick@aol.com

By-Laws: President Dennis Beltz: Two submitted in writing ( on File)

• 1) by Paul Rambo of Mi. Bass Masters Club: written as “No Board Member may sit on any other Competitive Tx Series board. No Board Member may divulge any information to any other competitive Tx regarding any Fed. Business. No Board Member may Solicited any entity for any monies that would take away funds from the MBFI.
  Any new Board Member must sign a non compete clause for a period of 2 year after end of term. “
  Submitted and signed 4-3-05

• 2) by John Beeman of Outdoor World Anglers : written as “Region Tournament Qualification The state would be broken into 5 regions. Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest and Central. One tournament would be held in each region during the annual season. Tournament lakes would be determined by vote of all Club Presidents within the region. Each President casting one vote per club. Lake with highest votes per region would be selected.

  • Events would be Pro-am style events. (Boater division and Non-boater division). Separate entry fees and pay outs.

  • A member would have up to 5 individual chances to qualify.

  • 20% of each division will qualify from each event for a position in the annual State Championship.

  • Qualification as boater or non-boater would determine status at State Championship.

  • Final finishing order will determine the qualified individuals. The top 20% of each division for each event qualify. Excluding any member qualified at a previous Regional Tournament event. Example :Tournament #2 50 boaters. Top 10 boaters (20% of field) are eligible for qualification. The top 10 includes 3 members already qualified from previous event. Therefore the next 3 finishing places will used to determine the top 10 assuming these finishers are not previously qualified.

  • At the completion of all 5 events the qualified members would be determined based on finishing order by the Championship Director and invited to fish the annual State Championship.

  • All members would be encouraged to fish all events to qualify for the annual Classic Series Championship.
    Members will be awarded points for each event based on current points system. At the completion of all 5 events the top

  • The top 10% of boaters and non-boaters based on points, will be invited to compete in the annual Classic Series Championship.

  • This championship will consist of prize funds for both Boater and Non-boater to be determined by total participation and sponsorship.” Submitted and signed 4-3-05

• AS per Federation By-laws these proposed changes will be voted upon at the Oct. President meeting.
  Location Bass Pro Shops. Time between 1:00 P.M. and 3:00 P.M.

Old Business: President Beltz NONE

New Business

• Board Elections will take place at the Oct. President meeting.

• President Beltz reminded the President that 4 board seats would be open at the of the Oct. 2005 meeting.

  • The terms ending are :

    • Dennis Beltz

    • Ron Guilfoil Jr.

    • James Witherspoon

    • Ron Spitler (one yr. Seat)

  • By-Law reads:

    • C. Elections
      1. The incumbent Board shall receive written nominations for the Director’s election from any active Chapter until July 1st of each year. The Board will present the list of nominees to the Secretary of each Chapter not later than August 1st of each year.

Motion to adjourn 3:00 P.M Submitted by Paul Sacks - Fed. State Secretary

Open agenda items:

• 1) Board Elections

• 2) By-law proposed changes

• 3) Classic series lakes and dates

• 4) announcing 2006 Tournament Director

• 5) announcing 2006 Conservation/Leg./Environmental Director

• 6) announcing new Newsletter Editor

MINUTES of PRESIDENTS MEETING Top of Page

February 6, 2005

Federation Presidents Meeting Called to order at 1:05 P.M.

• ROLL CALL: 35 0f 61 clubs present

President Beltz

• President Beltz presented a $50.00 BPS gift card to Duane Mroczka for finishing #1 at the State Championship and $25.00 cards to Mark Modrak and Don McCulla for their 1st place in the Classic Series Championship.

Secretary Report: Paul Sacks

• Motion to accept minutes of President meeting of Dec 5, 2004 made by Roger Smith /2nd by Mike Kujaski PASSED

Treasury Report: by Dennis Beltz

• Doug Hedberg presented a handout for January 2005 Treasurer Report. (Handout on file) available upon request by Club President

• Lew Borer Memorial Scholarship fund balance $63,500.00

• Doug reported that the IRS 1099 forms were mailed and that the 2002-2003 Tax reports were sent in.
  The Federation accountant currently has the 2003-2004 tax information.
  Motion to accept report Passed

COMMITTEE REPORTS

• Classic Report: Mark Smith

  • The 2005 and 2006 Classic Series dates were set.

    • June 4-5 2005 Charlevoix

    • July 16-17, 2005 Sag. Bay

    • Aug. 13-14,2005 Houghton Lake

    • Championship Sept. 30-Oct 1,2005 will be on White Lake in Whitehall, Mi. (Westside of state)

  • Entry forms are available and will be posted on our Fed. Website.

  • There shall not be a fee charged for credit card payments.

  • Next year’s dates:

    • June 3-4, 2006

    • July 15-16,2006

    • Aug. 12-13,2006

    • Championship Sept.29-30, 2006

  • A President raised the question “Why does most of the payback money go to only the 15 teams that make the Championship? Why not increase the payback for the tournaments anglers?”
    President Beltz answered that the current setup could be reviewed, and may be changed.

State Championships Report: Paul Sacks / Paul Wagner

• The 2005 State Championship will be on Lake St. Clair

  • Thursday Sept. 8 Banquet/meeting and Sept. 9-10 tournament, 2005. Banquet to be held at Gino’s Surf in Mt. Clemens.

  • This year the board has voted to limit the waters to Lake St. Clair - off-limits from Ambassador bridge to Port Huron bridge.

  • Three licenses will be needed. Mi-Canadian- Walpole Island.

  • Paul asked the President to contact him with any suggestion for improving the event.
     

Conservation, Legislative & Environmental Directors Report: Dan Kimmel

• Dan updated the President on the current status of the DNR Proposed Bass fishing open season date changes.
  Question was asked which group of legislators will vote on these rule changes. Dan explained that the Mi Sate
  Senators and the Mi. House of Representatives will vote on these proposals. The vote could come as soon as 2005
  In the late summer. If passed they would go into effect in spring of 2006. Sec. Sacks asked if a list of these legislators be posted on our website so our members could call, e-mail or write to their representatives and express our opinions.

WEBSITE: Paul Wagner

• Paul informed the President that a new Address update form will be placed on the web site. It can be mailed or e-mailed both to the Federation and to National B.A.S.S.

• Question of FORUM use was reviewed.

• Paul asked that all clubs provide E-mail contacts for their clubs.

• More donation gifts are needed for the Fed. Membership Give-A-Way Program. If you know of any sponsors who can help please contact Paul Wagner. These items need not be fishing related. Ex. Bakery-oil changes-pizza/restaurants, etc.

• Please note: http://www.michiganbass.org will no longer be available…only use http://www.michiganbass.NET

• Many new forms have been posted on the Web site. Click on the link “ SITE INDEX” and check them out.

• Contact Paul if you have new ideas and suggestion. Let him know what you want. Check out the new site.

Tournament Director Report: Doug Phillips NO REPORT

• Pres Beltz announced that Doug Phillips will be the 2005 Tournament director.

• Divisional: President Beltz

  • The National B.A.S.S. Federation Championship will be held on Kissimmee Lake in St. Cloud, Fl. the last week of April.

  • The format will be all anglers to fish for the first two days, and then the top 3 from each Div. will compete for 2 more days.

Raffle Ticket Director: Ray Schmitt

• Ray reported that the Federation has approx. 21,500 passed out to our clubs at this time.

• Please contact Ray should you need additional tickets. They can be mailed to the clubs. TIME to SELL-SELL-SELL tickets.

• The 2005 Raffle drawing will take place at Bass Pro shops on June 11, 2005 at 3:00P.M. to 5:00 P.M.

• Youth may sell tickets through adult club. Adults must collect money only.

• All the incentives remain the same as 2004.

Youth Activities: Ron Guilfoil Jr.

• The Jr. State Championship will remain the same for 2005 , but may change in 2006.

• Ron is asking all members who wish to help with the Jr. State Championship to contact him.

• The 2005 Jr. State Championship will be held on June 11th at Lake Oakland. The actual weigh-in will
  be at The Auburn Hills Bass Pro Shops.

• The Jr. clubs numbers are growing and we hope to have 15 clubs for this year. New location Newberry and Gladwin areas.

• Ron told the President that young angler may compete in the Adult State Championship at the age of 16 YOA. But ones he or she has done an adult State Championship they may not then qualify to fish Jr. or Jr. World Championship events again.

• The Fed. State Championship will require a parents permission form be signed for any angler under the age of 18 YOA.

• Clubs should contact Dewey Graves for all CastingKids information on putting on events.

• Clubs wishing to apply for Youth Project funds need to apply in writing in advance of the April, 2005 meeting.
  2005 Boat/ fishing Show schedules: Grand River show Mar. 17-20,2005

Membership:

• The Federation welcomes a new club : TEAM GREAT LAKES

Scholarship: Paul Sacks

• The Federation gave out $ 2,500.00 in scholarship funds in 2004. Many of the awards recipients
  sent in letters thanking the Federation and our membership for helping them with the funds to continue their
  education. The application form is now on the web site.

Media Coordinator: No Report

Sponsorship Report: James Witherspoon.

• Doc reported about new sponsors - Comerica/Franklin banks-Boat U.S. – Freeway Boats – Det. Dental One

50/50 Raffle fundraiser:

• $142.00 was won in the 50-50 raffle. The lucky winner was Bill Smalldon.

Newsletter Report: Jay Berwick

• Jay reported that the Dec. newsletter was mailed out on schedule. At the current time the Federation is looking for a new printer for the newsletter, and a new Editor. We hope to have a newsletter available in April or May.
  Until then members should rely on the Federation Web site as our main commutation tool.
  The costs of the newsletters budget is being reviewed by the board.

• The President were asked to find new sponsors for the Federation. For adds contact Jay for all others contact Mark Smith.

• Articles – news- stories-etc. need to be sent to Jay Berwick. Jay’s E- Mail is jberwick@michiganbass.net

By-Laws: President Dennis Beltz: NONE

Old Business: President Beltz NONE

New Business

• The new state Federation patches arrived. They are $2 each.

• President Beltz reminded the President that all board members might be available for their club meeting

Motion to adjourn 3:10 P.M Submitted by Paul Sacks - Fed. State Secretary

Next Presidents MEETING APRIL 3, 2005
NOTE: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME CHANGE

December 5, 2004