February 6, 2008

Minutes of the Meeting:

The February 2008 meeting of the PANHANDLE BASS CLUB was brought to order at 6:30 p.m. on February 6th, 2008. The meeting was held at Founaris Brothers and was presided over by our President, Wayne Thomley. There were 21 members present .

President

Wayne Thomley

Treasurer

Mack Cramer

Secretary

Steve Meadows

Tournament Director

Chris Malena

Asst. Tournament Director

Rich Hardy

Old Business:   First off our President, Wayne Thomley addressed the club with an apology on the handling of the Tournament Director position for Chris Malena with the resigning of Donnie Wigen. The club members had no objections. Thanks to Ken Repine all member now have updated addresses on the website now.

The 50/50 this month went to Wayne Thomley.

New Business:  Dan Thomas resigned from the club.

The e-board met prior to the Feb. club meeting and elected to let the club decide by vote concerning the date of our May tournament falling on Mother’s Day. It passed unanimously making our March Tournament a two day on Miller’s Ferry and our May Tournament a one day at Cooter’s Pond.

The Out Cast Bait & Tackle Store’s Annual Spring Tent Sale will be the 28-29 of Feb. &  the 1-2 of March.

Wayne Thomley gave the club a chance to receive 2 G-Loomis rods  at 50% off retail. Ron Fairbanks & Tony Boyett were the lucky winners of the raffle for the rods.

Discussion of the White City Tournament of Champions, (8 anglers), scheduled for the last Sat. in Oct. 2008 was batted around for input by club members and will be discussed further at future meetings.

Lastly with regard to the Club’s  Fund Raising, Mack Cramer brought to the table along with Tony Boyett because of their ties with Eddie Rhodes,  who runs the Northwest Florida Bass Tournaments, the possibility of handling the 8 Tournaments they put on at a cost of $350.00 per Tournament. This will be a great opportunity for the Club if we can negotiate this, but this would require each member of the club to participate in at least 2 of the 8 Tournaments.

 *** Hammer Award ***

New nominee

John” I love the beach “ Stafford

February Tournament:

The February tournament  was at Cliff’s Landing on the Tensaw River, we had 17 boats for the tournament. The weather was great just a beautiful day.  Most Everyone caught fish.

Big Fish winner of the tournament

Went to Steve Graham at 2.60 lb.

First place went to Rich Cornelius with 7 fish weighing 10.06. Fred Raby finished second with 7 fish weighing 8.45, and John Buck rounded out the top three with 6 fish at 8.30 lbs. Good job guys!!!!!!

Bubba'sway to measurefish!!

Po#	Name	Fish	weight
1	Rich Cornelius	7	10.06
2	Fred Raby	7	8.45
3	John Buck	6	8.30
4	Steve Graham	5	8.14
5	Tony Boyett	7	8.08
6	Billy Blackwell	5	5.93
7	Mack Cramer	4	4.87
8	Chris Malena	3	3.27
9	Lee Brannon	2	3.19
10	Frank Bost	2	2.42
11	Cliff Armstrong	1	1.87
12	John Kasic	1	1.37
13	Wayne Thomley	1	1.34
14	Dave Dyess	1	1.25
15	Steve Meadows	1	1.07
AF	Ron Fairbanks	0	0
AF	Ken Repine	0	0
0	John Stafford	0	0
0	Frank Kelly	0	0